WordPress keeps saved posts that aren’t published in a neat little “Drafts” box above the writing fields, poised for future edits and publication. I often have the Drafts bin chalk full of snippets of writing, snapshots, and links, but probably 90% of what ends up there never gets published—it’s unceremoniously trashed instead. Sometimes I’m not happy with the writing and sometimes I’ve simply had a change of heart. Sometimes I have lingered at the bar too long one evening and decided I should be forced to “test” my most recent backup the following day.

This is the season for spring cleaning, so a purging of the Drafts is certainly in order. This time however instead of deleting all the perspective images-n-limbo I offer a few of them reprieve.

Shelving
Snapped along a fence in the neighborhood; I like the image but don’t feel it’s as strong as it could be. There’s nothing terribly inspiring about the subject matter (I think it’s a bag a newspaper came in), and something about the angle of the shot bugs me.

Walk Safely
Taken right after this one, (I liked them both, but the other quite a lot more) even though this one adds the human element.

Treebranch in Bloom in Seward Park
I like the bit of lens flare, and the interesting cast giving to the blooms as they are backlit by the sun. (This was taken almost straight up into the sky.) The light is so harsh on the blossoms however I think it comes across a little darker than your average flower shot, and the perspective of the camera isn’t obvious enough to explain this.

Fixture
The underside of a light shade, kind of a cool shot in which I tweaked the levels considerably to add contrast. Reminds me a bit too much of a wasps abdomen?

So there they are, the images that for one reason or another I felt were unfit for publication. Published now, oh the irony