A feature on the BBC photo blog has resonated with me this morning. It is about muted colours in photography. Here in Greece we have been experiencing Summer proper and the period between 3pm and 6pm - siesta - has struck me for its muted colours too, though of a different sort to the photo I show here. Under the strength of the sun at this time it is difficult to raise our eyes as the brightness is overpowering, and in the squint the world becomes either flattened black shadow or bleached bright glare.
The two sides of the line again; the view rendered black or white, hot or cold, though both light and shadow as difficult to see into, as the other, against the other.
Siesta time here is also gloriously silent.
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