Anybody notice anything unusual about this picture (larger version is here)? A Year Ago: Public Display When I was eleven years old, I travelled briefly through Iran… [read more]
Tag Archive: bounced light
Hughes Mews
It’s no decisive moment, but I like the contrast between the ellipses and the rectangles in this picture. And it has bounced light. A Year Ago: Father, Son, Waiter It was the boy who caught my eye first… [read more]
In the Name of Beauty
There’s something flesh-like about this tree and its bark. The bounced light is harsh and revealing. Looking at this bound and decorated trunk makes me feel my age. What might I be willing to do to look good? Our standards of beauty for cultivated trees can be quite strict. We trim them, we braid them,…
Window Glow
One reason that people don’t see much of the world’s beauty is that a lot of it is indirect. It’s not something you notice by looking directly, head on, at an object. It’s not the object itself, it’s the effect of the object (its shadow or light, its color or weight or the shape it…
Light & Shadow, Key West
One of the indignities that my friends tolerate me inflicting upon them is to have a meal or a conversation abruptly interrupted by photographic urgency. This image, with its shadows and overlay of raking bounced light called to me at breakfast over Amy’s shoulder. I abandoned her for a couple of minutes to record it….
Sunrise 25
I was so exhausted last night (no nap) that I didn’t set the alarm. Which meant that, for the second time this month, I was not up at the designated hour. I missed the twilight, I missed the sunrise. By the time I got outside, the sun was high enough that it was bouncing light…
Window Rhythm
I was walking along, talking with David, when I spotted this out of the corner of my eye. I declared an Aesthetic Emergency and dashed across the street to make the photograph. (He was quite understanding.) Jazzy, isn’t it?
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I don’t know about you all, but I need a break from the butterflies. Just because I’ve got plenty more of them in the hopper is no reason for me to inflict them all on you just now. I want to turn my eye back to the urban and other (less insectile) pursuits for awhile….
Artifact of Light
This phenomenon shows up from time to time in my bedroom. I don’t really understand how it works, since—as far as I can tell—there’s no way for tree shadows to appear on that particular wall. It must be some kind of bounced light. I love the way it looks, though. It puts me in mind…
Light, Three Kinds
I’m glad my bathroom has a window. It’s one of those things that you don’t really notice if you don’t have, but come to appreciate very much if you do. I was having a shower and happened to glance out the window. Despite having lived here for nearly 19 years, I saw something in the…