Pixel Darkroom Photography

This image is almost the same as I saw it up in the sky a couple of hours ago. It wasn’t going to be the image for today, but just like many others in the past, I ended up liking it the most. I was planning to go outside and shoot something with available light, something, anything. I drove around for a few minutes and stopped on the side of the road. I hadn’t even seen the sky. As I turned though, I saw the color of the sun through the smoky clouds. It’s been cloudy and rainy the entire day. There was no hope of even remembering that there is a star called Sun behind all the clouds. Yet for a brief moment, the sun shone through a thinning of the clouds and I shot this image. I went on with my walk and drive and ended up with nothing that I liked.

I decided to head home. It was already dark and I didn’t know what I had “in the can”. I thought I’d look around and see if I find something to edit to my liking and planned on going out again if I needed to. I liked the first image quite a bit and I’m bringing it to you here.

When I was a child, I liked imagining what the clouds were looking like. What do they look like to you?

Come on, be a child again…

“La fille qui rapporte les couleurs…”

I’ve always said that you never know what you come across when you shoot a 365 project. Sometimes you leave the camera at home, or think that for a quick minute, you can just leave it parked in the car, but the truth is, the best camera is the one you have with you, and for taking good images you just need a camera ready. I know I could have probably gotten back to this at some point, but I know, that if I hadn’t had the camera with me, I probably would have shot something else today. I like the simplicity of this image, I like the pattern. I love it how the image shows the endurance and maybe even the struggle of the flower, to overcome the cheaply, faded by time and tastelessly painted fence. I like the aesthetic contrast.