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The camera decided to give me a Maxfield Parrish sky today. I left the dangling leaves in just to suggest it even more. For those of you who are not fans of early 20th-century magazine illustration, Parrish was a commercial artist of the time who perfected this color of sky as a backdrop for his scenes of idyllic bucolic or exurban scenes populated with lightly clad women accompanying ad copy (nothing changes in advertising does it?).
Those of you who enjoyed watching the movies The Princess Bride and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones most definitely saw Parrish-inspired landscapes (you might even think that was the best thing about Clones). If you read Parrish's biography, he used himself as a photographic model to set many of these poses. If you know that, it becomes very obvious why a lot of his pictures look like old photographs with the lighting diffused much more than cameras seem to capture focus and light today. He of course put his signature touch on things (he was a genius, not a mere copyist) but the source of his inspiration is clear.
Back to Malibu. Here's a wider view a few steps away with a more sun allowed to flood the lens. This shows you the smog ready to flood back in later today. This almost reminds me of some country's flag.
Enjoy the blue today. Be serene. Be calm. Be pacific.
Love,
Pops
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