“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it
American photographer Catherine Opie once said, "The biggest cliché in photography is sunrise and sunset." And yet, sometimes, we just can't resist. #Capture52 #capture52week25 #sunrise
« La pivoine est-elle moins sublime du fait qu'elle va faner ? » — Amélie Nothomb, Métaphysique des tubes [Moi, je dis bien-sûr que non!]
It’s peony season! All over Paris, markets and flower shops, as well as my Instagram feed, feature a perfusion of pivones, perhaps the “Frenchest”of flowers. Fortunately, I only have to walk through my own garden or drive through town to enjoy these fragrant beauties.
“The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Week 24 - Bokeh: Use a shallow DOF and throw your background out of focus. #Capture52 #capture52week24 #bokeh #forgetmenots
“White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . ” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
“Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” — Niels Bohr
Flora vs. fauna + opposites on the color wheel — Opposites give us visual contrast, and when two objects contrast in a big way, they give your viewer something to think about. Show us opposites this week. #Capture52 #capture52week23 #oppositesattract #floraandfauna #colorwheel
