December 13, 2004
Escape to supersaturation
This is not a photo taken with my new camera . The supersaturated colors, I am told, are considered one of the deficits of my sweet Canon Powershot S40. Funny, that's one of the things that I like best about my old camera. Sometimes it makes things prettier than real life.
I actually chose to see the world that way. Esther Hicks, channeling Abraham, would be proud. My sunglasses, which I wear religiously when I'm outside, are rose colored. Actually the tint comes originally from the manufacturer Serengheti , and is specially mixed for me by my local optician for each new prescription. I can confirm that looking through rose colored glasses actually does make almost everything prettier . The only exception being large expanses of lush green, like salt marshes . I can always remove my sunglasses if I see one of those.
Seeing. I had to take a test the other day to evaluate my peripheral vision, I think. It required me to stare at a dot in the middle of a curved screen and watch flickers of light go on and off all over the screen, like twinkling stars. Each time I saw a twinkle , I was instructed to push a little buzzer . I have a feeling I did not do very well on the test, but I won't find out for awhile. Here's the astonishing thing. I had to concentrate on this activity for seven full minutes . I could hardly sustain my attention for that length of time. I don't have any difficulty listening to others or writing paragraphs, but this was a killer . I can't tell whether this is a life long undiagnosed case of ADD, a new phenomenon developed later in life, or that the task was so boring that everyone struggles with it
Which brings me round to why I'm not using my new camera much. I can only concentrate on the instructions for less than seven minutes at a time. My stapled-together paper instructions haven't arrived either. (What can I expect, it's coming from India). The colors of the photos it takes are real, and look dull to me. I have found the saturation button, but not a convenient way of keeping it on "prettiest"
Photo note: I should have saved this shot for something more ascendent, uplifting. Oh well.
Posted by Dakota at December 13, 2004 07:50 AM