Thursday, 25 August 2022

Strange twilight

From yesterday, pictures all 'straight out of the box', i.e. the jpeg files with no tampering in Photoshop other than perspective correction. 

Shortly after sunset, I peered out into the garden to see a yellow sky. A storm is due... So here it is - the immediate environs of my działka. So weird, I had to capture this phenomenon on camera. Below: looking out my front door. 


Below: the street outside under a yellow sky. Attracting the strangeness from all around. "Dogs begin to bark/Hounds begin to howl/Watch out, strange cat people/Little red rooster's on the prowl"


Below: looking west towards Chynów. Almost as though lit by sodium.


Below: the wind is whipping up - the downdraft from an advancing deluge. But will it get here?


Below: looking east towards the end of Jakubowizna - where the asphalt ends and the wood begins. The sky is beginning to clear...


Below: looking west at the woods from the other side. The magic is passing; the spell it is broken. Seventeen minutes after sunset.


This time last year:
Ageing and the Ego

This time two years ago:
First inklings of the end of summer

This time four years ago:

This time eight years ago:
Short, sharp diet proves I'm allergy-free

This time nine years ago:
More photos from Radom Air Show

This time ten years ago:
Twilight on ul. Karczunkowska 

This time 13 years ago:
First hints of autumn in the air

This time 14 years ago:
Slovakia - we were not impressed

This time 15 years ago:
Jeziorki - late August cultivation

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dust from ZNPP?

Marek

Adelaide Dupont said...

How do you do the perspective-correction?

In all my years Photoshopping [I stopped around 2015] I had never seen nor done such a thing.

[even when my graphic designs badly needed it - or even basic respect for a grid!]

Sodium really does show these orang-y lights, doesn't it?

If it lit up like that in Australia or in the USA I would immediately suspect fire or a burning-off.

[but it did disperse ... I was looking around Polish weather and it was 19 degrees thee hours before midnight in a Silesian city].

Michael Dembinski said...

@ Marek

Unlikely now - but a distinct possibility. One to watch.

@ Adelaide

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+T, then select 'perspective' or 'skew'. Or, for more exotic effects, 'warp'.

Sodium - you can alter colour temperature, but that would be cheating! My aesthetic is to authentically replicate what I saw and felt at the qualia moment.