Sunday Driving At Its Best
Here are some photos of "my" new back yard. Note the differences in snow and shadow coloration in just 45 minutes. It was a balmy -20 F, the digital camera to faked a "change batteries" error after about 5 minutes of exposure to the elements. The batteries were fine, it just wanted to warm up.
Extra Credit: Can you spot the sun dog in the pic above?
Wiki Link: Haystacks (Monet's series focusing on changing coloration)
Wiki Link: Haystacks (Monet's series focusing on changing coloration)
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Having said that (and this is not specifically discussed in the Wiki article, yet implied somewhat as en plein air), the impressionists took Da Vinci's style (he is basically the first known painter to use landscapes in his work) one step further and captured time itself (a great majority of impressionist paintings are of outside scenes, whereby the shadowing and light indicate season and time of day).