Mono Lab
This is a brief revisit to my spring 2012 series on the Friday Harbor Labs. I liked this picture when I took it, but now that I see it again, I like it even more.
And while I am at it, a wine glass as flower vase together with a G&T, on the shiny main room table.
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Canon 5Dii, top: SMC Takumar 35mm/f3.5 lens, ISO 800, 1/100th, aperture not recorded; bottom: Canon EF 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO 100, f1.8, 1/2500th.
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burnt embers 
There is a lovely light in both of these. That room space is so quiet…suspended.
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Thank you Karen. It is a wonderfully peaceful place, very conducive to study and reflection.
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That first shot is excellent. I like the blinds, the stripes of light seeping through, the sunlight on the end of the desk, the shadowy lamp, the way the light hits the chair. But, for me, what makes this such a great shot is the loop in the cord that hangs off the desk. That one detail gives it a humble, human touch – to put it another way, it puts a person there.
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These cabins often are very spare like this – most researchers come to the labs for fairly short stays, or from afar, and don’t do much decoration. And the people are often absent, away at their lab desks or out in the beautiful surroundings. That is a security cord of the laptop. Enough to slow a thief down for a few seconds. It is interesting that you find it humanising. If I had been less focused on the blinds and thinking about setting up the shot carefully I might have removed the cord for its interference with the rectangles. But in seeing it your way I am glad that I did nothing to it.
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Very minimalistic – that first shot. All angled to the centre of the frame. Can’t make up my mind how it would look if there was a faint glow of light from a lit table lamp.
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Thank you Andy. That is an interesting thought that did not occur to me. I was concentrating on the blinds which totally dictate the light inside these cabins. When I was a kid they were rather grotty old green roller blinds (at least the ones I remember) and thus had very different light entering the rooms.
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