Pleasant Sunset

I wasn't sure what to write for this blog until this evening, as I was walking back to my room. I saw out of the corner of my eye the view outside my roommates window and was awe-struck. I quickly ran to my room and grabbed my camera and started to shoot the sunset through the screen.

From the window there are apartments on either side of this wide walkway and in the background was this gradient of heavenly colors. From the bottom I could see a rich, soft, rustic orange that blended to this blush pink then to a mystic lavender then to a cool blue that filled the rest of the sky to the blackness of outer space. It might be hard to see from the photo, but you had to be there to really appreciate the feeling of the moment.

Sunlit Construction

I was leaving my apartment last week around 6 or 7pm. I turned on to the little drive that connects the parking lot to the street, and boom! I was blinded. The sun was so low, I barely had to lift my head to see it. The sun itself was this perfect white-orange circle dead ahead of me. At first, it was all I could see. As my eyes adjusted, I began to see how beautiful it really was. The light was this wonderful deep orange mass, streaming across the construction site across the street. There were also parts of the contructionsite that were in silouette. It was very peaceful; and a little surreal. Had I not seen it for myself, I wouldn't believe it was real and not staged.

Hello!

I hope everyone had a fantastic summer break! Welcome to the blog for 50C: Introduction To Lighting Design.

As we move through the quarter, I hope that your eyes will adapt to seeing light in a whole new way. Perhaps you'll see colors you've never noticed before, you may recognize the angle of a certain light, maybe you will find ways to articulate how a light makes you feel.

In order to assist with this process, I've created this blog so that each and every one of you may contribute a short piece every other week on an aspect of light that you have noticed throughout your journeys. This can include a particular moment in a play, a beautiful sunset, a great rock concert or a well lit store. Anything and everything can be included. I only ask that you take this assignment seriously, remember that your postings do count towards your final grade.

If you have photos to include with your post then please add them on. We'd love to see what you are describing!

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and the moon and stars.
St. Augustine

A given visual phenomenon may not be perceived at all unless it is actively looked for.
Burnham, Hanes, and Barteson from Color

Thanks and Happy Blogging!!
Jaymi Smith