Week 8: The Effect of Color

This image was captured at a shopping center in Fontana, California. 

     Last Week, I was out on a shopping trip and found this beautiful sky while sitting in the car. While looking at this sky, I began to think about the sky that might appear at the end of Angel of the Desert, where Francisco is described as a Phoenix, rising from ashes. The colors in this sky provide great inspiration for what I am trying to accomplish in that project. To me, the orange aura present just above the mountains in this picture conveys light and hope in a time that was otherwise dark, represented by the gloomy grayness just above the orange. This picture also reminded me in the moment the things that light brings with it that we so often take for granted. Without light, photos like the above one would not be possible to capture, because light is responsible for all of the beauty in the sky. I am glad that I got to both see this beautiful sky, while at the same time gaining an inspiration for my Angel of the Desert project.