Borrowed light at dusk

[lavendertook]

Here are more pics where the reflections double the fun. I probably wouldn't have gotten these if my camera didn't have such a great low light setting. It's so cold here today with high winds, I was cold at work for once, but right now I got a Saki cuddling against me with her head tucked in against my leg, and a Moo is curled up at my feet.


There aren't all these grand colors along this stretch now, but there's still lots of holly, mountain laurel, ivy, and moss keeping the idea of green well alive, now that the snow has washed away.


We're under an oak in these last 2 pics.


Almost to sunset now.

Comments

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Wow.... Are these colours for real???????

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

These are the colors I saw, but slightly brighter and more luminous because the camera's low light setting is picking up more light than my eye at this point in the evening--so it was really fun looking through the digital view screen. I guess it's a similar effect to increasing exposure and saturating the pic afterwards. Probably what those animals who pick up more light than we do see, so it's a Cat's Eye View of the lake at dusk. (-:

Also it's the light I see on the beach at sunset where the light is less obstructed and picks up so much reflected light--which is why sunset is so much more luminous at the beach--I don't think it's just because I'm so happy to be there.

I've never seen sunset from the unobstructed peak of a bare mountain--that light, too, must have a specialness all its own.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

"Cat's eye view" - that is an interesting and appealing way to describe it.