the summer version

of last year's Christmas card: dimly, in the background, a sculpture reliefs with cherubs, and in front of it, a geranium.   The wall relief - near the bottom of my parents' garden - was the basis for not just the card. but several albumen prints and platinum prints that I did last summer, and although I know that I did The Right Thing in coming back here at this time this year, rather than taking a course in wet-plate photography that was, effectively, the follow-up from last summer's alt pro intensive week, I do get little twinges of regret ...