Week 6: Obsession in Color

It's probably apparent, having looked at some of the pictures I've chosen already for this class (and in all likelihood for 50C also), that I'm a little obsessed with he color palette that sunrises and sunsets create. This was taken walking out of a grocery store (I can't even remember where or which one and it was only a few days ago), and I was struck by the intensity of the color. Ordinarily we associate the natural with ordinary, and I find it awe-inspiring to be reminded that it has such vibrancy.

Looking at the sheer variety and intensity of the warmth - oranges and pinks (among many other colors) - especially in contrast to the shadow and cool of the sky outside the clouds, it's also an illustration of source. Even though I can't see the sun, and this picture is almost entirely shadow and the reflections of the light in the clouds, I have no doubt where the source is. And this kind of picture is not necessarily something that would immediately be associated with reflection.

I also think that the little pin-pricks of light in the shadow, streetlight and building lights, provide a contrast in terms of the natural. Manmade (fluorescent? I remember us talking about the chemicals involved in 50C) vs. nature.

As tempting as it was to add a potatini glass picture from the open house this week, that one will wait. That's a different kind of obsession.