The morning light.

I would like to know if people like this image. Many people will look at this and see untidy backyards on a working class  housing estate. Its scruffy, untidy,  quite run down, there are broken fences, washing lines, bins and bits of old furniture. What I am describing doesn't sound very nice. BUT.............I really like this image. This is the view from my back bedroom window. I remember when those 5 tall tree stumps were huge conifer trees, the trees grew so tall my neighbour had to cut them down with a chain saw. On a spring morning you can see baby rabbits running around the grass. Once, a long time ago, a pet white rabbit must have escaped and interbred with the wild rabbits and now every so often, one or two of the baby rabbits will be white, or a mixture of white and ordinary bunny brown. sometimes you see an adult white rabbit but mostly its the white baby rabbits who catch your eye.  Just out of view to the left of the picture is a doo hoose..........or pigeon shed, my neighbour built it, and when he lets them out they fly off in a great cloud and sit on the roofs of nearby houses. I love the sound of them coo cooing and once I witnessed their mating ritual on the ridge of my shed roof. I never knew the mating ritual of pigeons was so intricate, they looked as if they were dancing and the male spread his tail feathers into a great fan and then pirouetted around the female.

( you need to click this one to see what I mean)

All of those things are reasons why I like this image, but most of all I love the complicated patterns of light. This was taken just after 11.00 on Sunday morning, it was cold, there was frost on the roofs facing into the back yards, the sun hadn't reached that part of the roof and it was still covered in frost. I noticed the light hitting the tree stumps and the fence at the end of them. I especially like the pattern on the brown fence at the back of the picture, the sun has painted a black silhouette of the surrounding roof shapes and chimney . I also like the sharp triangle and narrow strip of yellow light slashed right across the garden shed. The gable end of the house just beyond the shed is very very bright, that one wall is in full sunlight contrasting it to the other walls that are north facing and in the shade. You will notice some yellow light in some of the windows. This is reflected light, those windows face away from the light source but the sun is strong enough to bounce back and shine in the glass windows. Most of all I love the colour of the light...............golden yellow morning light. And for these reasons, I think this picture is beautiful, and if people only see a collection of dirty backyards...........tis their loss.