Wednesday, February 4, 2009

with or without?




Took these shots of my block tonight,
with then w/o flash.  Can't decide which
I like better, but either way I love 
the way the snow makes it all 
so calm and quiet.

5 comments:

  1. The bottom one seems "warmer," more mystical, but you miss those falling flakes like in in the top photo, which, itself, comes across as cold and harsh, too severely defined.

    I'd really go for the bottom one with the softly-floating-down-like-silent-magic snow flakes of the top one.

    Yeah, it's so neat the way new-fallen snow enfolds the outdoors in a hushed cloak of quietude.

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  2. For me it's without SNOW, period, but I love both photos as each bring something different to the viewer.

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  3. I meant living without snow, of course!

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  4. Alexa: I just found out that the rich man who sold the vegetable peelers died on the 1st of Feb. I am sure he will be missed by his many fans.

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  5. TG -- I agree w/you. Normally, I never use the flash. Natural light's always the best, even if there is none (which I guess is why my camera has a setting that lets you take a photo in pitch blackness).

    from cali -- I hadn't heard that Joe Ades had died. I'm sorry to hear it, but glad you let me know. Now I'm really sorry I never bought one of his peelers.

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