We love colorful landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and yes, dog and cat pics. But very often, we find that color takes something away from an image, distracts from its gestalt. Sometimes, color is itself the point of a piece, sometimes it distracts from the flaws in artistic composition (guilty on multipole counts here), and sometimes it reflects an artistic uncertainty about the point of a piece.
Today's image of El Capitan in Yosemite, emerging from the early morning fog and mist is titled Appareo II. The first Appareo is a work in color, but this is simple monochrome. No RGB. The tonalities in this work are measured entirely in degrees of luminance. In photography, there are 256 degrees of luminosity, ranging from black (0) to pure white (255). Everything in between is some greater or lesser expression of gray.
Yosemite is stunning in its colorful realism. For me, it is almost incomprehensible when defined entirely by its light.
