Week 10: Summer in October

I took this photo using my best friends really fancy SLR camera in the beginning of the fall quarter. It was still incredible hot outside for it almost being October and we decided to take a trip to Will Rodgers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades. We took a tour of the home that Will Rodgers had built during the 1920's and while outside I spotted these plants that were covering an outdoor fireplace that crept up and all over the outside of the house. It might be the quality of the camera that really makes this so vivid and clear, but either way it is the light hitting the planter that gives it that feeling of a hot summer day in California. The blue sky and dark hidden shadows make it very cool, but because the green and yellow leaves are so prominent, it creates a hot and very harsh image to look at for a long time. I remember while taking the photo I had to wince while looking up, because even though there was no direct sunlight there was a glare from it being so bright. One thing I really like about the lighting is how spread out and even it seems, while still having so much happen with the shadows. There is an obvious natural quality because of the colors, but a slight mysterious feeling from the shadows.