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20-OCT-2006

Aspen, Lee Vining Canyon, California, 2006

Interpreting the landscape with light usually involves accurate light metering. However in this case, I experimented with over-exposure, making the lighter areas of the image seems almost transparent. The resulting softly impressionistic palette blends green, yellow, and orange into an expression of both the delicacy and the brilliance of nature at work.

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Guest 19-Jun-2019 14:45
Beautiful
Phil Douglis18-Aug-2007 17:56
Ai Li calls this "nature's lemonade." You call it "bottled sunshine." I am glad this image proves as delicious for you as is it did for Ai Li. She liked the color gradation, while you like the way they fuse as a watercolor, with different textures. You say it is "almost" an abstraction, which is very close to what I intended here. I deliberately overexposed to create a softly impressionistic palette. Thanks, Ceci, for enjoying it with me.
Guest 18-Aug-2007 05:54
Bottled sunshine! What a lovely, cheerful, warm and lush picture that is almost an abstraction. Here the hues have almost run together like a watercolor, along with different textures. A most delicious image, Phil!
Phil Douglis19-Nov-2006 01:53
Nature's lemonade -- a nice metaphor, Ai Li. I made this image almost exactly at noon -- perhaps the "worst" time to make a landscape photo. The light was harsh, the shadows deep, the color very intense. By over exposing, I neutralize that harshness, lighten the intensity of color, oopen the shadows so details appear, and reduce the jarring contrasts. Glad you like it as much as I do.
AL18-Nov-2006 16:13
A lovely take, like a nature's lemonade, well mixed and refreshing :-) Really like the color gradation.
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