Under the Raining Umbrella Statue

Of the early HDR (high dynamic range) images that I made, this was one of my favorites. (I slightly tweaked the image below from an earlier iteration to get rid of some of the darkness that had appeared under the umbrella.) I love the blues that fill the entire image and the pink of the girl's dress. The picture reminds me of a children's story, or of something that would appear in a children's story book. The statue was in place in a park in Sauk Centre back in August; it has since been removed -- no doubt for the winter months, lest the water freeze up and the statue shatter into a million pieces (a storybook ending that would make the Grimm Brothers proud).

(08/20/13)