Camp Stitches East 2003
Desktop Pictures
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Calm waters, black swans, blue-green mountains—elements that combine with the moist air to give photo images an opalescent sheen.
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About the Pictures, by the photographer...
Although photographs are primarily about the gathering of light, the quality of the light always seems to me to be influenced, heavily, by the quality of the air. When taking photographs anywhere in the Southern United States, the most noticeable quality of the air is its moisture. In the mountains of North Carolina, the altitude and humidity seem to lend an opalescent quality to the natural world. All of the colors at the blue and green parts of the spectrum take on a shimmering quality, even in the brightest light. Highlight values take on a blue-white cast, greens become almost unnaturally vivid, shadow values take on unusual green and purple tones. The color tones are quite vivid under most circumstances, perhaps for the same reason the colors of an opal are vivid, the hydration of the mineral. This is sheer conjecture on my part, but of such speculations are the minds of photographers filled.
These photographs were taken around Lake Junaluska. They are a small collection of landscapes, architectural details, and plant & flower scenes. I hope you will enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them. Please feel free to share this web site with friends. If you have any comments or suggestions, I hope you will let me know.
Best wishes!
David Xenakis
XRX, Inc.
