Monday, 20 February 2012

Radiation

We seem finally to have gone over the divide that separates "short, dark winter days" from "lengthening spring days".  There is a new quality of intensity to the light, that somehow makes one aware that sunlight is a form of radiation.  The colours of early spring can be a little other-wordly, newly exposed to the radiant energy beaming in onto a renewing planet.








Alarmingly for February, we are already being given a drought warning.  It's been a very dry winter in the southern half of Britain.  Looks like the car won't get washed this year, either!

4 comments:

Graham Dew said...

Nice pictures Mike, especially the middle one of the tree and Hockley viaduct. The light really complements the textures you were looking at.

Graham

Frank Harkin said...

I second that.

Mike C. said...

Yes, the light around the viaduct can get v. strange sometimes -- the motorway is a stone's throw away in one direction, and the River Test and the watermeadows in the other, so the atmosphere is a volatile mix of particulates!

Mike

Kent Wiley said...

And the new Blogger viewer for your photos, with multiple thumbnails and an X to close the window and return to the post are "about time" improvements to the interface. Glad to see that they - and you - are willing to update.