Three candles

I promised Peacebear over at "Eye of a Lens" that I’d post my next phone camera picture. We’d been talking, on and off, about making pictures of lighted candles.

Tonight, after my weekly guitar lesson, I needed to escape from some tricky fretboard practice which was stretching not only my mind but also my fingers. A set of new, thicker strings had dealt its own sadistic challenges to my dexterity.

I hunted out a box of matches (no mean feat in the middle of house-moving preparations, as says it meself) then lit three waxy red stalks, the better to play with the buttons on my Sony Ericsson mobile.

I liked what the “Night” setting was doing. After that, all I had to do was keep the tiny, fixed-focus lens far enough away from the flames not to crack it, then press the OK button a few times.

As for that guitar, it insisted on being the subject of the final phone picture of the night. The deliberate loss of colour conceals some sanguine sweat and tears, dripped during the riffs and licks I made earlier this evening when jamming .

Comments

[Donna]

Excellent shot Peter...and I really think red candles give it a certain flavor. I thought of you while in various churches in San Francisco. It was difficult getting low light shots, but I tried my best. I just picked up my pics on CD and will put some up on my blog over the next day or two. There's one picture in particular, that though it didn't come out terribly clear, the color it presented really grabbed me. I'll pass it along in an email.

Donna