Remember Spring?

Toronto, ON - Mat-E - Thursday, June 29th, 2006 : goo

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Remember spring? This is a bit of what it looked like in the little oasis surrounding my house. I've been so busy at work, I only dumped down the few shots I've taken in the last two months last weekend, so now there's all this out of date material to look at. Part of what I love about photography (and city photography in particular) is that it allows you to remember the little, mundane details that change subtly over time, and that all add up to create your reality on any given day.

I love how spring is a bright, fresh green, speckled with garish colours. You can feel the life bursting forth from everything. Summer is still beautiful, but the same streets and trees and parks are a more uniform, deep, dull green, or even brown depending on the rain. The sunlight goes from bright, crisp spring white-yellow to deep hazy summer orange-yellow. Everything is still alive, but no longer bursting; more holding out against the fierce sun and heat and dust. I like how once a season has set in, you can barely remember what the previous one felt and looked like...the pictures barely even seem real.

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