luminous beings are we

Saturday, 23 May 2009 06:34 pm
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Gosh, the English language has some good words for light. Apart from luminous: lambent, effulgent, lucid, burnished. This is fortunate, since they become necessary at times in this city. The sun set this evening over a city which had spent the afternoon tucked under a low-lying softness of clouds, which refracted the sunset light into the most incredible peach-coloured glow. Driving home from Hout Bay was slightly surreal: my hands on the steering wheel were glowing slightly, all peachy-gold. It's the most amazingly pervasive light, it feels as though the air is actually holding a clear, glowing liquid like a cup.

Then I turned the corner at the Common, and saw this, which caused me (and the car immediately behind me, actually) to pull over in order to gawk:



(Stitched, as usual, with Autostitch, which is a dandy little utility capable of uncanny intelligence in knowing which bits of cloud match which.)

Date: Saturday, 23 May 2009 05:09 pm (UTC)

Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rumint.livejournal.com
Glad to see I am not the only one getting more yoda-like with age ;)
Only 4 months till I level up to the big Decade IV!

But nice pic and I like the poetic language, peachy gold liquid light resonates.
We also had a nice sunset, recent volcanic dust?

Nice name autostitch.
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Glad to see I am not the only one getting more yoda-like with age ;)
Only 4 months till I level up to the big Decade IV!

But nice pic and I like the poetic language, peachy gold liquid light resonates.
We also had a nice sunset, recent volcanic dust?

Nice name autostitch.
<Not to be confused with autosnitch, the script that turns your
machine into a police informer ;>

Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
Yoda always was horribly quotable. A truly content old age is being able to quote Yoda and know you'll be recognised by a sizeable proportion of your immediate social circle :>.

Fix your markup, sir! you have nasty HTML-unhappy spew which, when fixed, will render this comment surreally meaningless.

Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] egadfly.livejournal.com
You win at taking photos of that view. Not that there was a competition or anything, but still, you win.

Peachy.

Date: Monday, 25 May 2009 08:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
Thank you! I have a lot of practice at that view... Not just because of proximity and timing, but because this city habitually plays ongoing and experimental visual games with it using its considerable toolkit of clouds and light.

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