‘Porch’ [This post just requires tags.]

     A digital composite of mine from 2006 using both original and found imagery. 

‘Porch’ (Early 1980’s / 2006) -original & found imagery-

    In the foreground, of the above composite, sits the photo I snapped (sometime circa 1981 or 1982) of my childhood home’s back porch. In the background looms the photo realistic artist depiction of the fourth planet of our solar system, a depiction that I happened upon while surfing the web in 2006.* 

    Seeing the angle of the planet, and recalling the similar angle of the porch, not to mention the direction and coloring of the light falling upon both subjects,** I knew, as you can see, the lineup would make a good match, and combined the pair. I’m very pleased with the blend.

-FIN-

*In vain, I did an image search in the hope I would learn the name of the artist responsible for the photorealistic painting of Mars, so I could properly credit them for this post. The search failed to produce any results as yet. The artist credit is therefore still pending.

**Regarding the photograph of the porch I took, I will have to go through my collection of prints to see if I can loosely determine when exactly I snapped the picture and under what circumstances. However, there is a good chance I was trying to document, at the time, the striking, noctilucent pink that was falling upon the house well into the twilight: the lingering glow produced by the volumes of sulfuric aerosols volcanically ejected and introduced high into earth’s stratosphere by the 1982 eruptions of El Chichón. Located in Chiapas, Mexico, it erupted three times between March 28th and April 4th of that year, dramatically painting the sunset and dawn skies of the western United States for weeks, some forty four years ago.