Sunday Selections #469

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.

Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image.
  
The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle.
 
The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen. 
 
I usually run with a theme.  This week I have spent in a snot festival (a combination of a summer cold and allergies) battling digestive issues so I haven't gone far at all from home.  This week's Sunday Selections are largely experimental photos taken over a number of days in one of my favourite parts of the day from first light to just after dawn.

Starting with the sky.

And then to photos I took in the garden, mostly using the Aperture Priority setting, when there really wasn't enough light.  Some were failures, and some were interesting.  No doubt I will continue to play.  

These two quite different photos are of the same subject.  The second was taken about ten minutes later than the first...
Sadly the first is strongly reminiscent of the flashes that retinal tears produce in my right eye.  I assume the flashes are there all the time but I am only aware of them in reduced light.  They can be quite disconcerting.

 

I am fascinated by the differences that changing light makes.  No doubt my family would put this into the small things amusing small minds category but my very adult self pokes her tongue out at them.

I hope your week is filled with fascination and light.