The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle...

[derekl_1963]

Also, well worth seeing large on a black background!

While it doesn't rain quite as much up here as legend would have it, it can be quite grey and grim at times. Or, as my friend John (God rest his tortured soul) used to say "there's a reason why both Starbuck's and Ted Bundy got their start in Seattle". On the other hand, when the weather is nice... it can be awesomely beautiful.

So, for twelve days (not straight because my schedule didn't always allow it) at or very close to noon, I set my camera to the same settings and pointed it at the same patch of sky and took a single picture. They were then assembled into a mosaic using BigHugeLabs' mosaic maker tool, otherwise all images are SOOC. An interesting experiment, but an awful lot of work!

Originally, this was going to be titled with the nicely alliterative "Nine At Noon", but then I realized "Twelve at Noon" was even better. (And the 3x4 mosaic harkens to the proportions of digital images.) When I assembled the mosaic and saw the two glorious blue sky days, I settled on the final title.

Here's Bobby Sherman singing the song that inspired the title:

Comments

[hrollaug.livejournal.com]

Many years ago, when I first moved here, my boss asked me if I remembered that song, when I said yes he stated

"It's not that the skies are actually that blue, it's just on the rare occasion they are blue they just seem bluer"

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Actually bluer or just seeming bluer, I'll take 'em. :)

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

or thats 12 shots of the same piece of sky in an hour... grin.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Well, that too... :)

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

No particular plans, no... but if inspiration/opportunity strikes, we'll see what happens.