The rain lasted longer than predicted, but three hours before I had to go to the train, the sun broke through the clouds.
The Song of the Day is “Blue Sky” from Joan Baez’ 1975 album “Diamonds & Rust”. Hear it on YouTube.
2097 - Blue Sky
2012-07-15There are 5 comments
andreas (2012-07-15)
In reality I didn't think that much about the blue, and that's stupid. I almost instinctively darkened the sky, shifted it towards magenta and desaturated it. This pretty much replicates the effect of a polarizer. It looks decorative, but not like a sky. I shall think about skies 🙂
Flo (tonebytone) (2012-07-16)
Whatever you did, I do like the blue. And the tree, too. If it didn't have variegated leaves with such large white borders, I don't think this shot would have been half so successful. Looks like a variegated red maple or box elder, which is a maple.
andreas (2012-07-16)
Yeah, I like the tree. You already saw it in the background of those "La Vie En Rose" images 🙂 No idea what it is, it does not seem to be a maple. The leaves are not fingered.
2098 – The Man That Got Away II » Andreas Manessinger (2012-07-17)
[...] the blue sky in the background of yesterday’s post? People like it and I like it, but it is wrong. It was processed to look good (and I think it [...]
Juha Haataja (2012-07-15)
I like the blue - it is not often that the almost-hidden background color can be the subject of a photograph, but here it is.
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