This is the image for yesterday, July 5th, and quite exactly a year ago, on July 7th, 2007 I had another image titled “266 – Summertime“. I love this season, and yesterday, while on my way to the lake, I tried to find out what exactly characterizes our landscape these days.
The three images of yesterday represent such a thing: harvested fields baking in the hot sun. They were taken at the same time in the same place, but looking in slightly different directions. As a result, neither the contrast between sky and earth was the same nor the colors. And that’s one of the things that I have learned while working on my SoFoBoMo book: A series of images from a certain time and a certain place just does not make it, unless you take your time to match colors and light. It’s a well known phenomenon, that strongly contrasting images easily make a good match, whereas largely similar but in subtle ways different images fight each other.
So, “Summertime” is the Song of the Day, but what version? Yesteryear we had Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, this year it’s Helen Merrill. I have two different recordings of this Gershwin tune by Helen Merrill, one of them, the one that I like better, on a compilation called “Blossom of Stars“, that currently only seems available used and from £45 upwards. Ouch! I suggest that, before shell out the money, you sample the wares around here.
Jul 062008
So if you are ever wondering “who is reading all this stuff” you can be certain that I am. your discipline in getting something up and posted is inspiring! This is a great shot – I often think about flopping down in the environment but don’t and later wish I would have. Great shot keep up the work, we are reading, looking and enjoying it.