Week FIVE ... Rhapsody in Blue

In the neighboring city of Anaheim, adjacent to our local hub for sports, a new train station is currently under construction. Named “ARTIC”, an acronym for Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, this new transportation center is being promoted as the upcoming Grand Central Station of Orange County. Its appearance resembles a large beetle with its curved dome-like structure and colored “shell”. When I pass by it on any given night, it is always a different color. I am most fond of the purple ;) 

On this evening that I decided to go shoot some pictures of it to share with you, it was a deep, comforting blue; the type of coating and saturating blue that we are able to achieve with the down lights in PS1100. I could see it glowing from well down the street. If it had a sound it would be a rich harmony of violins serenading me and sending me into a peaceful evening. As I walked around it, I noticed it also had flickers of red, amber, and green which made it playful and celebratory. 

As I shot a couple of pics of the structure, I was struck by the blue reflection on the landscape. The tall, glorious palm trees placed to greet visitors at the entrance glimmered in a mystic blue. They appeared electrified. It was an interesting contrast. The structure calmed and soothed with its blanket of water-like blue, but the palm trees, in this unnatural blue state, created an intense, vibratory energy, much like a night club or the Las Vegas strip. I wanted to play some techno music and go dance around them … don’t worry folks, I refrained ;) 

I feel it is pretty safe to conclude that a color scheme can produce a drastically different environment depending on its subject; much like the lights on stage affecting and/or being affected by the type of movement the dancer is performing.