asakiyume | magic photo

I took this in the stairwell of the parking garage at Logan after dropping Wakanomori off there.

I didn't look at it when I took it, so boy did I get a surprise afterward. It's not quite like in the stories where you manage to photograph a ghost, but atmospherically it's trending that way.

--Because when I took the picture, what I saw was a space filled with light (it was about noon at the time), and then the bright blue plexiglass piece, which was reflecting a deep blue square on the floor. I wanted to catch just that--the airy, light-filled space, and the two blue squares. I set the focus on the blue plexiglass square. "Take your light reading from that, please, phone."

I don't know whether it was that the light in there was so intense that, being asked to focus on the one blue spot, the camera overcompensated and turned everything else orange-red, but wow! Or that's what it looked like all the time but I didn't have eyes to see?!

.... And I didn't even notice the purple plexiglass square, but I guess it was there? I guess?

So that's a little visual magic, and hear's a little aural fun. I mishear stuff all the time, and today I thought I heard someone mention "solar-panel ballads" on the radio. What could they really have been saying? One of my friends suggested "solar-panel ballast"--which is possible if solar panels sometimes need ballast. (Do they?)

In any case, I like to think of a whole genre of ballads relating to solar panels. There are murder ballads, and then there are solar-panel ballads.

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From:

kore

Wow, that's amazing! Cameras can 'see' things so differently from us, it's wild.

From:

asakiyume

yeah! like the phone was recording other electromagnetic wavelengths and this is how they showed up!

From:

csecooney.wordpress.com

Beautiful! It was so striking it stopped me on Instagram. Or Facebook? Wherever I saw it. But I like reading the story behind it better.

From:

asakiyume

Instagram, I put it on Instagram. I feel almost like I'm passing off someone else's photo as my own--but in this case the "someone else" is the camera.

Camera: How about the scene you saw, only with 100 percent more orange and red?

Me: Wow, this is amazing. I will post it.

From:

sovay

It's not quite like in the stories where you manage to photograph a ghost, but atmospherically it's trending that way.

That is amazing.

From:

asakiyume

It's a very fortunate serendipity, at the very least!

From:

minoanmiss

Oh lovely!

From:

asakiyume

I was delighted!

From:

sartorias

Whoa!!!

From:

asakiyume

The camera decided to get creative on me!

From:

gwynnega

What a beautiful photo! It could be used as book cover art or some other kind of illustration.

From:

asakiyume

Yeah, it feel like a natural Mondrian or something!

From:

cmcmck

That's one for a frame, I think!

Stunning!

From:

asakiyume

Or print up on cards--then I could send it to people.

From:

mallorys_camera

Red is the color of anger, no?

In my imagination, you snapped that photo just after two lovers had a very intense quarrel. 😃

From:

asakiyume

That would have been one intense quarrel! The *feel* in the space was very airy and uplifting--no residual resentment--but maybe the emotions burned off and we're left with just the color.

From:

amaebi

I thought I had commented, but apparently not.

What a way to try on very different eyes....

From:

asakiyume

Yes! ... I was back at the airport today, but I couldn't find that stairwell....

From:

amaebi

Oh, now I remember! I was thinking how unfortunate the Norns were, all sharing the same eye.

From:

asakiyume

Maybe things look different depending on the brain it's connected to ;-)

From:

amaebi

Thank you! I expect so!

From:

wayfaringwordhack

Do you know that, for me, reading your posts is often like this glimpse that your camera gave you of Otherness? I often get this sense of life striking me as one way or color, and then I read something you share and have a "Wow, I have not/did not see that!" moment. Your interactions shed a new light on this world of ours. Thanks for always sharing. *hugs*

I love the colors and vibrancy. :D

From:

asakiyume

This is such a wonderful thing to be told--thank you so, so much. (((tight hug)))

I'm really grateful to the camera for showing me this other way of seeing.

From:

amaebi

Yes, absolutely agreed. I always reckoned it was because

asakiyume is a fay.

From:

wayfaringwordhack

I always reckoned it was because [personal profile] asakiyume is a fay.

Aha! This explains a lot! :D

From:

wayfaringwordhack

I always reckoned it was because asakiyume is a fay.

Aha! This explains a lot! :D

From:

asakiyume

Hahaha, I lap up nice remarks like milk.

(I mean, I know some people say the fay are fearsome, but I always liked the idea of them)

Edited Date: 2020-01-27 09:43 pm (UTC)

From:

amaebi

Definitely intended as a nice remark.

I know there is supposedly an unseemly court, but in the realm of actual stories there are very few English fay-- the ones I know about-- who strike me as malevolent as such. (Yallery Brown and a bunch of water horses being the exceptions that come to mind.) Fay mostly seem to me just Other. What of course is horrifying for a lot of H. sapiens. They do love cleanliness and fair treatment and respect, though, including respect for taciturnity.