On one of my many expeditions to the city I took this here photo of Hercules' bust in the park. After getting home and tweaking it a bit to drain what little color there was in the picture - it was a very overcast day so the blues of the sky were very faint and washed out - I named it 'Sorrowful', uploaded it to my flikr (can I say that here?) page for all to admire and left it at that.Over the next few weeks I would return to the park and feel pretty chuffed that I had improved the appearance of our friend in the form of some creative lightroom tweaking.
I also thought I'd be really clever and show why he was so "Sorrowful" by photographing his female companion in the same manner and calling the resulting picture "Little Wonder". But she has a broken nose! Some bastard knocked her nose off! The council glued it back on but it looks dreadful. How could I publish a photograph of a female with a busted snoz and call it "Little Wonder"!? That just wouldn't be right. So I left it.
Cut to this Sunday past and I'm again in the park looking for something or someone interesting to photograph when out of the corner of my eye I catch a bright orange glow. An orange so bright I could almost feel radiation burns from it.
I turn toward the light and see our poor old mate glowing like a mini sun. Someone had bombed him and his fair lady with flouro paint!
You know those moments when you don't really know what your seeing? It took a couple of seconds to register. These two illuminant orbs were the most brilliant things I saw all day. In more ways than one.
Making my picture I thought about composition, light yadda yadda yadda, but color? Noooooo....
The one thing needed to improve this pair was color! And boy did they get it.
On a drizzly overcast Sunday they looked amazing. Yeah I know its vandalism and plenty of people would be upset by it but it looked like they had been to the party of their lives. Sunburned as all get out maybe, but it brightened up an otherwise comatose marriage. Even if it only lasts a day before the council rub it off.
