And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
For all my photography friends, notice no sunset or rise and SIX HOURS of golden hour. I can do beautiful portraits at 1 a.m.!!!
This graphic is a screenshot from the Sunseeker app on my iPhone, which helps me plan my photo shoots. Notice how the sunset and sunrise times are set to never.
When we traveled two hours to the north to cross the Arctic Circle near Jokkmokk, Sweden, the display showed the sun had no time below the horizon
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955