Day 117: ...playing with p-h-o-t-o-g-r-a-p-h-y
I spent a further day today reading and writing with occasional forays into the garden. A mostly pleasant sunny morning with clouds and a little rain later in the day. If you listened closely, there was just a touch of thunder rumbling along as well.
The book I read was Christine Piper's After Darkness, a new novel and Vogel prize winner, it is an addition to the emerging 'genre' of Japan-Australia war stories I've read or seen lately including 'The Railway Man' (the film), and Flanagan's Narrow Road to the Deep North. Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being also sits alongside these stories, although with a North American flavour. Despite being novels (and film), they are part of my research project on Arendt's storytelling and thought. It is all related.
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| Storm approaching (no filter, no alteration) |
Likewise, in my photography, I like to explore light and shade, colour-not colour...today's weather was just one such opportunity. Storm clouds always offer entrancing shapes and textures. During the day I also liked the way the changes in the light changed the appearance of the rogue bamboo out the back.
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| Bamboo at 3.41, no alteration, pre-rain |
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| Bamboo at 4.23, no alteration, post-rain |
It reminds me I must busy myself with extracting it (again) one day...
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 75-300mm, 2.12pm, 3.41pm, 4.23pm]
