{"id":1040,"date":"2012-04-21T04:37:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2018-08-25T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T05:09:15","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this photo of the early morning sun over the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, probably Port Said which faces east.\u00a0 It was taken during the war, in 1941 or 1942.<\/p>\n

I selected it because of the sunrays bursting out below darkish clouds.\u00a0 I love the silhouette of the lamppost and the large tent, but what I love even more is what appears on an image like this, one that I’ve looked at for the past fifty years as a Kodak 4″ x 3″ photo in an album, when I brighten it with an image editor and all the detail of the tents, the lamppost, the fence and the man in white becomes evident.\u00a0 The scene was captured by a Brownie box camera, but no one back in Australia knew what was below that morning sky, until now.\u00a0 It’s an exquisite pleasure to draw details from a black and white photo which have hidden there all these years.\u00a0 See a photo<\/a> I submitted during the February photo challenge, where some words I had ignored, because barely visible on a tiny photo, became plain as day with a bit of image tweaking.<\/p>\n

Here’s the photo for the Sun challenge, as it looks in the album:<\/p>\n

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Early morning sun, Mediterranean (Port Said?), 1941\/42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And below is the photo with adjusted curves.\u00a0 For me, someone with bad night vision, this is what I imagine it’s like to see in the dark.<\/p>\n

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Edited image of early morning sun, Mediterranean (Port Said?), 1941\/42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this photo of the early morning sun over the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, probably Port Said which faces east.\u00a0 It was taken during the war, in 1941 or 1942. I selected it because of the sunrays bursting out below darkish clouds.\u00a0 I love the silhouette of the lamppost and the large tent, but … <\/p>\n

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