Summer

Summer

the shadow almost gone.

A leather notebook on a rock in a green summer field.

The almanac · Summer

The highest noon.

At midsummer the sun stands highest and the shadow nearly vanishes into the foot of the pin. Noon light is flat and white, so the work moves to first light and to dusk.

Noon sun
Highest of the year
Pin shadow
Shortest, almost none
Daylight
Longest
Light
White at noon, gold at the edges
Winter16.5°Spring · Autumn40°Summer63.5°PinShadow at noon →
Noon sun and the pin's shadow, four seasons · drawn for one field, place withheld

Noon shadow the size of a thumbnail. Worked at dawn instead.

In this season

The plates4 plates · Summer · solar noon · 35mm
The pin at noon, almost no shadow
Pl. 01The pin at noon, almost no shadow
Things laid out on a table in the shade
Pl. 02Things laid out on a table in the shade
A hat on the sill, the curtain lifting
Pl. 03A hat on the sill, the curtain lifting
A cut field after the harvest
Pl. 04A cut field after the harvest

The plates

Added as this season is shot.

Colligere et Capere

Photographs, film and objects by DOKB.

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