Week 4: Morning Light

I took this picture on PhotoBooth so please forgive the quality. This photo doesn't really do justice to the light I saw. I've noticed over the course of these blog entries that photographs rarely seem to capture the feeling of the light that I'm experiencing.  That fact might be the fault of the quality of my camera, but I honestly feel that the process of flattening this ethereal experience sucks out a lot of the emotions and nuances of light. Anyway, enough of that rambling! I woke up one day after sleeping in and couldn't help but notice the warmth of the light. It wasn't physically warm, but the light had a warm tint to it. It made me feel like the world outside of my room was like a desert - barren, dry, and hot. It seems like light with colors with an orange tint create a hotter, dryer world than those with bluer or purple tints. It didn't seem like a relentless, unforgiving dryness - the warm colors weren't intense enough for that. It never became uninviting, but the light definitely created an interesting world unlike the one I normally associate with the city of Irvine.