Blue spring shot
Today it feels like it could snow. In fact, the hills around town have a faint fresh dusting of it. This in “the California of Slovenia”[1]. I can take some small comfort from the continuing wintery weather in the hope that it will forestall the deluge of people saying (or worse, writing) “Spring has sprung!“, which as previously noted I hate only slightly less than urgings to “Spring into savings!”
It is inevitable, though. We have had increasing bouts of marginally warm sunny weather, and you can definitely feel the hours of sunlight lengthening[2]. Magda has been playing with the camera more and more lately, and a few days ago she took this picture of the spring-y sunlight and shadows cast by it:
My contribution to this photo includes forgetting to reset the white balance from fluorescent to its default, which accounts for the cool blue tones[3], [4].
[1] This just in: while waiting for the pizzas last Friday, I was leafing through an advertising insert masquerading as a magazine, and was appalled to see Nova Gorica described as Slovenski Las Vegas (no translation offered).
[2] Which probably explains the constant back-creeping of Adam’s internal alarm clock.
[3] And also gave us 40 pictures of Adam with the same skin-tones as the Cookie Monster. Rescued in post-processing (the photos, not the monster).
[4] Oh, and sorry about all the footnotes recently. I finally got around to reading David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” and it appears to be infectious.
The photo actually succeeds (to put it a tad pretentiously) to evoke a certain feeling, a springy feeling, more precisely.
Comment by Loxias — Wednesday 15 March 06 @ 07.41 MST+2.00
You’ve put into words what I felt from the picture. I especially liked that that feeling came out of a photographic accident.
Comment by sgazzetti — Wednesday 15 March 06 @ 09.08 MST+2.00
Las Vegas? Really?
Comment by Jane — Wednesday 15 March 06 @ 20.40 MST+2.00