Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Misty Lake at Dawn


Each moment as the sun comes up has a different feeling to it. Here a mystery was being unveiled, as the trees and their reflections appeared by the swamp-like lake. The original photo was practically black and white because of the mist, but with Lightroom, I could bring out the details and colour. Cheating? Maybe, but it makes for a much more interesting photo.

2 comments:

Hope said...

This is beyond words. It is in one way completely calming...in another it's brilliantly exciting like standing on the brink of the world as it was being created.

Starfire said...

I appreciate your deep understanding, Hope. This is a depiction of the Creator expressing his love for the universe in the creation. Expressing His own nature in this physical, artistic display in the time-space domain.

It is ever recreated, each moment being renewed, the divine spark re-infused into an otherwise inannimate and even impossible universe.

Dawn is a majestic sight, one of the greatest to be seen on a planet. Yet it is everywhere to be seen given the right conditions- notice how the kaliedescopic colours mirror those of rainbows and gas nebulae, or even of oil floating on water, the majestic is also a calming and reasssuringly loving sight.

The beauty of the universe, the daily drama of becoming, is universal, whatever one's outlook attributes it to. For me, it is the fingerprint of a creator and creators, as much an artist as a designer. By depicting and commenting on this, by appreciating it we are in a sense participating in the very creation itself.