“Look at the dog chasing the man,” said the boy, who seemed to be around seven or eight years of age. “What are you talking about?” asked his mother in obvious confusion. “There,” said the boy, “see, there’s a dog chasing a man?” It was late on a Friday evening in mid-September, when I, and [...]
Photo Of The Day: Hackescher Markt Window
What is it that I love about this photograph? I think more than anything that it’s the trick it plays with the mind. That the lightest part of the image is created from the densest material while the window seems to absorb light rather than project it. The odd symmetry of the image plays into [...]
Photo Of The Day: Provencal Doorway
While most shutters and doors in Provence share lighter, although intense, colors like lavender, yellow, periwinkle, or pistachio green, on occasion a darker color can be found. Walking around Ventabren I found this pair of shutters, the blue matches the blue of the house number. The mail in the slot makes it seem like someone [...]
Photo Of The Day: An Arles Home
Understanding the light in the South of France is something that isn’t done until spending time on the streets of a town like Arles at mid-day. The answer to the mystery of why more people are indoors than out at this time of day became clear, when even while wearing my sunglasses I found myself [...]
