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[URBAN NOTE] Fiat lux
Mar. 2nd, 2006 07:46 pmWhile on our Saturday excursion to Scarborough, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
larkvi called my attention to the nature of light, about the way in which the frequency of ambient light changes in the course of the day. The light that falls in uniformly shadowed areas is blue, it turns out, refracted by our world's nitrogen-rich atmosphere and perfect (so larkvi the photographer told me) for portrait photos.
Leaving Dooney's Cafe (511 Bloor Street West) this evening at 6:40, just before sunset,talktooloose called my attention to the late evening sky that was visibly if you looked west down Bloor Street. Framed by the low-slung buildings and accented by the neo-blue signs of the Korean peninsula that adorn the Korean Business Area's lampposts, the sun's light created a rainbow hugging the horizon--red lowest, then stratified levels of range and yellow--before this light faded into a perfect cloudless blue.
larkvi called my attention to the nature of light, about the way in which the frequency of ambient light changes in the course of the day. The light that falls in uniformly shadowed areas is blue, it turns out, refracted by our world's nitrogen-rich atmosphere and perfect (so larkvi the photographer told me) for portrait photos.[T]he universal Blue
Blue an open door to soul
An infinite possibility
Becoming tangible
Leaving Dooney's Cafe (511 Bloor Street West) this evening at 6:40, just before sunset,
talktooloose called my attention to the late evening sky that was visibly if you looked west down Bloor Street. Framed by the low-slung buildings and accented by the neo-blue signs of the Korean peninsula that adorn the Korean Business Area's lampposts, the sun's light created a rainbow hugging the horizon--red lowest, then stratified levels of range and yellow--before this light faded into a perfect cloudless blue.
