Week 8: A Cloudy Day

Usually, I don't like cloudy, overcast days because they make me sleepy and I feel the need to sleep in all day. But this was a fairly interesting day. I just came from seeing Avatar (ridiculously cool movie by the way) , sat in the back seat of the car and was on my way home. I looked through the window, up at the sky and zoned out. Randomly, I wondered what made it still light out on a cloudy day. I figured because it's overcast there's no sunlight coming through, it's all being blocked, however... I was wrong. Upon further inspection I realized that the sunlight is just filtered more, with the help of the clouds. The sunlight still goes through, but somehow must refract off all the water droplets that make up a cloud, blocking a majority of the light from coming through properly. So I thought that was pretty cool. Especially how above the cloud line it was completely blue, yet below it was encased in shadow and felt depressing and gloomy. But something that I particularly found interesting was the fact that colors (particularly green) seemed to stand out more than usual. It's sort of like going into a garden in the morning, just before the sun pops out, that the colors in the flowers and leaves are the most vibrant. Or when you wear black with a splash of color, the color seems to pop. Maybe colors seem more vibrant because there is such a contrast between the dark and bright, allowing dark colors to accentuate colors.