Time Immortal

On days when Grace works, I will pick her up from work in the evening. Usually, I time the drive over incorrectly and wind up sitting in the car listening to the radio for a few minutes while I’m waiting for the time her shifts end at to roll around.

Sometimes, though, I remember to bring my camera along on these short jaunts, and sometimes I see a photo opportunity.

These are the cherries (and some of the beads of the Rosary that hang from the rear-view mirror of our car. I had to really slump down in the driver’s seat of our Chrysler Sebring to get the camera at a good angle from which to snap the shot, and I wanted to capture as much of the white framework of the hospital’s entryway awning as possible — hence the cherries being off to the left of the shot.

This was a high ISO shot, and so required a fair bit of noise reduction. I also had to boost the luminance in the red and green channels to bring the cherries out a bit more. But overall, I really like the shot. It’s a bit random, and the only reason I even tried to take it was because there was a chance something worth posting to the site here might result. Fortunately, that bet paid off.