Nasturtium Bud
These nasturtiums are enclosed in a mesh designed to keep the deer out of some raised vegetable beds in the neighbour’s yard. We are watering for them at the moment, and the morning light can be very striking.
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Light Wall
In keeping with my recent emphasis on unusual light, this scene comes from my bedroom wall. This light reflects off the neighbour’s house through a small window in my closet and then shines through the louvred closet doors. It casts striped light on the yellow wall, and in this case, bends it around a large tube that is leaning against a bookshelf.
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Light Table
Gotta love the morning light! This is a table in my neighbour’s yard, dewy with a touch of tree shadow on the far end. It’s one of those 60’s kind of table with an pastel coloured arborite top, chrome edge and chrome legs. Even live it was blindingly bright such that nothing around it could be discerned. A bit of post processing confirms that impression.
Below is another treatment of the same image, less contrasty and with the chrome edge brought out of the darkness (amazing what one can find in the shadows of a RAW file with selective exposure adjustments). I thought it would be interesting to make it more table like, but overall prefer the square of light floating in darkness.
I also include the untreated image as it came out of the camera, other than a crop to match the other two. I think these go remarkably well with yesterday’s cosmic spider’s web details.
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Cosmic Web II
Back to the cosmic webs in my garden, previously shown in Cosmic Web and Iris Cosmos. This web has some fabulous details in it that can be found with very tight crops.
They are rather like a shaky shot of a neon rich night scene, wormholes for aiding interstellar travel or plucked and bowed strings in the orchestra of the cosmos. Just what kind of music do spiders hear when their webs vibrate?
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Broken Strings
A week or two ago I provided the lead-in to this post. In Swift Street and Lower Pandora I showed pictures from along the route I walked from my car to the bar where I was going to hear local cover band the Broken Strings. The sun was beginning to set, and I had timed my arrival to get something to eat, and to snag a good seat before the band went on. I was meeting friends there; both were from out of town. The venue was the Canoe Brew Pub at the bottom of Swift Street where live music can be heard several nights a week – their food is very good, and the beer, brewed on site, is excellent.
Broken Strings plays every week at the Canoe and frequently are found at other bars around town, weddings, parties and so on. They seem very busy. If you are interested to hear some of the Broken Strings covers then you can find them here on SoundCloud. I am not a music critic, or musical, so won’t offer any critique here other than to say that they are very good band well received by the bar patrons. My friends who came with me enjoyed themselves (one of them is a professional musician and he liked the band, and was especially impressed with the vocals). The band also takes care of the sound quality in this difficult space – some other bands I have listened to here have had a sound akin to auditory Pablum thanks to a lousy mix, but the Broken Strings got things well set up during the first song or two and sounded good for the rest of the evening.
Red Frame
These panels framed in red caught my eye when in Port Angeles. The diagonal panel in the top photo makes it look as if part of the wall is at an angle; helped by the plants I think.
The bottom photo is just for a bit more context, looking down the building beside a parking lot. I was very pleased with the in-camera framing of the top picture which is not cropped or straightened. The bottom one has a bit of cropping and a tiny amount of straightening.
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