A Scene Throughout the Day - Ghosts

  The first thing of note is that I struggled with the settings of the camera I was using. Although I feel like I have a fairly good novice-level grasp of aperture, ISP, and shutter speed, I don’t feel like the camera I have been borrowing from ATUS is all that good at navigating through them. The dial used to adjust all of the settings, for example, is super sensitive. So, I can only rotate it a click or two before the button feature of the dial depresses and alters the settings in some way that I don’t want to do. In short, I plan on trying a slightly better camera once I return from Alaska.

The stairs being reclaimed by nature in my photos are just down the hill from my apartment building. From the bottom of the stairs, once can see the glow of some sort of street lamp just beyond the top steps, but the actual source is not terribly obvious. My daughter and I lived in the same apartment building when she was about 4-years-old, and we called them the Narnia stairs and talked about Mr. Tumnus being somewhere beyond the top of the stairs by his lamp post. This stairwell has remained one of our favorite places in Bellingham, harboring one of our fondest memories of that time. Today, they are still the Narnia stairs and many of our friends have begun calling them this as well.

These photos were taken on the day that we went to Sutter’s Pond. The way the light changes from one to the next is interesting. It, in part, inspired me to crop each in different ways. The final photo is obviously very dark. This had to do with the challenges I was having with the camera. I did take several photos that were much clearer than this one. However, I really like the way this one turned out for some reason. There is just something about the blurred line created by Mr. Tumnus’s lamp at the top of the Narnia stairs in this photo that I find aesthetically pleasing.