Long shadows

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The days becomes shorter, the sun rises later, and the distinctive golden glow of the light is definitely a sign of ending summer. The good thing is that I don't have to get up that early to stalk the first light, and the golden gleam paints everything in the most favorable colors. In that way, parting with summer is easy, and the misty, cold, grey daysare are still far away.

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Hot days - lively nights

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When the days are too hot, life changes to the night. After a buzzing 37°C day, the Camplin, Krk's main plaza, was buzzing even at 11:00 in the night. I took out my venerable 1,7/50mm lens, and did I praise the Anti-Shake in the camera already? So that photographing lady's pose got fixed in 1/8th of a second, quite unthinkable in film times.

Mixed light situations are usually meant as a mix of natural and tungsten light. Not so to the right: the modern, energy saving street lights gave a light that was almost purely yellow and even manual white balance or postprocessing tricks cannot make a normal lighting out of this. But leaving it yellow and balancing it with the tungsten light of a gallery makes it interesting (for me) again

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Summertime

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Today is the 3rd day with temperatures high in the 30th (Celsius), and sitting outside is no real joy if the breeze stops. The good thing is that the internet speed in the campground lobby now is aczeptable - in the evening it reminds more of old 2400 Baud modem times.

Picturing heat is not simple at all. I should go out to the places were the asphalt is melting (almost), but honestly - I am not that motivated. Better get another espresso and water and wait till the sun goes down.

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