One light on in a window. One might think this a late night photograph capturing insomnia. It was taken at 5pm. The days are short.
19 more days and I'll have a perfect year of 365 photographs. Maybe I should skip a day. No one is perfect, after all.
The Douglas image is CGI, or AI, or whatever you want to call it. It's not a real photograph. It's also slightly unsettling because there are no people in it and, even stranger, no vegetation in it. There's nothing living in it.
Even more unsettling is, it's perfectly exposed. I've seen it in person. The image is very large. I want to say it's at least 4' tall by 6' wide. And you put your face right up to it and the blackest of shadows are just barely black, and the brightest of lights are just barely white. No lost details. No blown details.
I didn't get that. But my image also has trees. Grass. No people though, not intentionally anyway.
The view feels different without the trees. We'll plant another tree in the spring. And the view will change again.
I like this one more than I should. The age and configuration of the railing, the slope of the last tread vs. the landing, the meticulous attention to the surface finishes on the stair components when there stairs themselves are disintegrating..... It's an interesting space, not meant to be occupied, but you feel yourself in the space upon viewing it.
