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Memory…or imagination?





Back to the archives as I have been lying low this week.

Sometimes when I look at pictures like this I wonder whether the sky and light really were that way – or whether the whole effect is some kind of illusion produced by an idiosyncrasy of the camera. These pictures were taken early one winter evening in Florence with my first point and shoot digital camera. This was a particularly low tech machine; I don’t recall it having a sepia mode but it may well have done and this could account for the peculiar colouring of the scene.

Or maybe the sky really was like that…pictures like this challenge the boundaries between my memory and my imagination. I recall the kayaks very clearly though, and it was my interest in them that produced the shot. All these years later I am still annoyed that I managed to chop off the nose of one of the boats! The kayaks captured my attention because I spent a week kayaking in Tuscany – including that stretch of the Arno that lazily oozes through Florence – when I was at boarding school in Italy. I remember standing on the bridge watching the kayaks and thinking about my first trip to Florence. It could very well have been nostalgia, and not the sunset, that painted the sky sepia. Or maybe it was a button on my (now fossilised) camera. I really don’t think it matters which.



More pictures from my trip to Florence can be found here (these were posted before I changed the layout of my site and are much smaller than the pictures I post now!).

Skywatch

January 29th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Pictures

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