Seeing 2009 (#53)

Due to my fingers having their own ideas of which keys ought to have been pressed at an inopportune moment, those of you on my email list received what amounted to be a "null and void" blog entry two days ago . . . it was supposed to be this one, but I put said digits on "time out", thus the delay.

On to the image.

The vantage point of this photograph is the pull-out at the north end of the Golden Gate bridge. I'd not been there in quite a long time, and this - a statue of a sailor (and his duffel bag) - were new to me. A surprising number of sightseers milling about for dawn on a January weekday made creating this solitary perspective in the rapidly changing light a real challenge.

There exists subtle bits of ying/yang here: the protective, warming light of the beacon is no longer necessary - and thus has been turned off - as the sun takes over. The shapes of the duffel bag and the beacon's enclosure nicely echo one another; ironic that the brilliant, blinding light of our star is inferred, blocked as it is by a dark form, whist the absence of glow from the lamp is on transparent display.

For another image, taken just nine minutes earlier (and, by contrast, illustrative of the swiftly changing light), click here.

Shore Leave (Sunrise, San Francisco), #8625

(c)2009 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: January 16, 2008; Canon 20D; f/11 @ 1/250 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 200; 47mm.
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