Sherry Chandler

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• 1. Tommy replies at 16th June 2006, 8:31 am :

  I miss that light. I always did like the sunsets in Paris.

  Now I’ve got trees between me and the westernmost reaches of Ra’s sky barge. And like as not there are clouds. The sun stops shining in the window long before it ever gets dark.

• 2. sherry replies at 16th June 2006, 12:45 pm :

  I’m having great fun trying to capture the light around our house. It has kept me captivated for a quarter of a century.

• 3. MW replies at 17th June 2006, 3:29 am :

  That’s a great picture. It looks better than it did yesterday morning. It looked a little dark on your monitor, but I might just have been at the wrong angle. I’ve always liked that view, though it’s better when you can’t see the road.

• 4. Charlie replies at 17th June 2006, 7:31 am :

  Since getting my digital camera in 2000 I have taken two pictures that very clearly, and beautifully show the pheonenomen “lens flare” in them. Both pics were taken early on summer mornings looking eastward with rising sunlight filtering through leaves. Lens flare is explained as occurring when non-image forming light enters the camera. It is usually caused by internal reflection within the lens system’s elements. I was totally fascinated when the first one popped up. For a while I thought I had captured some scientific aberration. Y’know, poets have wild imaginations anyway.–charlie

  

• 5. sherry replies at 17th June 2006, 7:58 am :

  Neat, Charlie. That’s a very poetic photo, and at least you didn’t think the aliens were landing.

  I got one a little like that, too, on Thursday, though not as dramatic. I was somewhat charmed by the little flashes of light. I didn’t put it up because I thought folk would tell me how silly I was for shooting directly into the sun like that. Also, I probably need to grub that little hackberry out of there. The problem with having a yard full of trees is that it’s constantly trying to become a forest.

  

• 6. sherry replies at 17th June 2006, 11:46 am :

  Two more photographs from Charlie who went out and did something while I sat here in my dark cave of a room staring at the glowing screen.

  BUT… is doing something better than Doing Nothing. I continue reading Tom Lutz’s book of that title and hope to have a report soon.

  

  

  To get this effect, Charlie said, “I tried to pick out a place where rays of light had made it to the ground and just photographed that general area. Apparently leaves scatter light so that it strikes the lens at odd angles. “

• 7. sherry replies at 19th June 2006, 5:28 am :

  Gin Petty adds this shot to our sunset/sunrise collection, shooting into the sun.

  

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