I don't know why I've never photographed in Peace Park at night. It just didn't seem to hold much promise. I was downtown last Tuesday night conducting a night shoot with my Access Arts photo class. We were dawdling through campus when we walked into Peace Park and I started trying to find a spring blossoms shot. Sometimes this is pretty hard at night, as the light is low contrast and not terribly blossom-appropriate. In the work of Josef Sudek, the one-armed photographic "Poet of Prague", his treatment of spring blossoms and landscapes is decidedly low contrast and low key. So I borrowed a page from his book. Columbia will never be as romantically, fog-shroudedly photographic as Prague in the 1950s and 60s, but here is a nod to the independent vision of Mr. Sudek.
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