{"id":5831,"date":"2009-12-27T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2009-12-28T00:15:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T13:15:42","slug":"2138-of-it-is-metatron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=5831","title":{"rendered":"[2138] Of it is Metatron!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up north at the end of Glebe Point Road is a park and Rozelle Bay sits in front of it. From there, one gets a full view of the sleek Anzac Bridge with its two concrete towers. Just slightly farther towards the sea, the undoubtedly more famous Harbour Bridge crosses the Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

This picture looks west and clearly, taken at dusk.<\/p>\n

I really like how the clouds hid the sun. It somehow reminds me of Metatron in Pullman’s His Dark Materials <\/em>trilogy. Something ominous lurks behind the clouds.<\/p>\n

I did some processing here to saturate the color. I typically frown at those that do some processing because I feel it a kind of cheating, especially so if they do not disclose that fact. Most of the times, processed pictures would become better but what I object about it is that without disclosure of processing, it deceives others. And then there is also something called over-processing.<\/p>\n

But I just could not resist playing with the colors here. So, I guess that makes me a hypocrite.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of full transparency that the Malaysian government notoriously lacks, here is the original photograph, taken purely based on, if I may say so, my non-existence photography skills.<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

The sky was much brighter in reality. I set my shutter speed quite fast to capture the cloud pattern. Much slower speed would have turned the picture whitish. I also tweaked my camera’s white balance so that, as an auto setting would always do I think, the photograph would not appear bluish.<\/p>\n

And oh, it is time for me to get a new\u00a0lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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