“Limpid” is today’s Vocabulary.com Word of the Day.
The adjective limpid describes something (often liquid) that is clear, serene and bright.
Do a search in your Google Photos for “limpid”.
Mine captured an interesting range of images (View Google Photos limpid album).
This is the first time I made a dedicated Google Photos album with the results.
I’m still trying to figure out how to capture the range of photos this captures. The first time I did this, I took a screenshot of the first couple of rows. There’s something about the felicity of the first results. I don’t have any control over what is shown. I simply share what appears.
But then it’s tempting to scroll down and look for a better set of photos. Three rows that better show a good range. So I end up scrolling and scrolling, thinking, “Oh man, this set of three rows is really nice, but it has this lame image in it.” Or there might be a nice set, but it repeats the same image three times. So I end up scrolling and scrolling, looking for the perfect set of three rows.
Today’s search for Limpid gave a lot of neat results. I simply couldn’t pick an existing set of three rows. I realized, well, I could just make my own picks and make an album. This way, it’s really a better-curated set. It truly is the images I find interesting. Not including duds in the mix. This set is more intentional.
But man, so many of these photos beg a description.
I could upload all the photos to one blog post, so each photo could have a caption. But I’m not really keen on uploading 31 photos to one blog post. I only have so much server space. If I do this a couple of times a week, things are gonna add up really fast.
For now, I’ll briefly describe each photo by row. Not the best way, because does someone really want to refer back and forth from caption to photo. Not really. Oh well. This is all an experiment. For now, it’s fun going through all these photos and interpreting them in new ways.
Here’s the group again. The descriptions will be below this collage.
Row 1:
- Red and green lights that used to shine on the Wrigley Building in Chicago.
- The frozen Chicago River looks like another planet.
- A textured starfish
Row 2:
- Reflection of a sculpture in the window at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
- Raindrops on a Metra window
- Plastic treasure chest in front of Chicago’s “Crown Fountain” (Squirting Faces)
- My hand in Lake Michigan
- More raindrops on a Metra window
Row 3:
- Process of making a wax photo. Rubbing off the paper pulp from the wax.
- A monster I made from wax.
- Koy sidewalk graffiti in San Franscico
- Nephew and niece at Shedd Aquarium
Row 4:
- Fish
- Glass reflection
- Moon rock public art
- Tri-color of duck in Chicago River
Row 5:
- Train tracks bending through water on Metra window
- Placing a printout of the Eiffel Tower up against the reflection of the Chicago Bean
- Another print on Chicago Bean
Row 6:
- My hand’s reflection in the vinyl seat on the Metra train
- My second daughter on top of a Renoir’s “Lunch at the Restaurant” (part of a series where I would put my newborn daughter on top of art prints)
- Taking care of my niece’s fish while they are on vacation
Row 7:
- O’Keefe’s cloud painting viewed through a kaldioscope lens
- Detail of a painting
- When our house was being sanded and painted, we covered all our windows with plastic to prevent the dust from getting into the house. It was a weird time during the pandemic, working from home, inside a house where ALL the windows were covered in plastic. In the front window I cut ou a 5-inch by 5-inch square and taped on a sandwich bag. This was my sole window to the world for three weeks.
Row 8:
- Pepsi Blue made a comeback
- Colorful kids cups in the sink. Tri-color photo
- Bubble wrap. I love that a photo of bubble wrap could be like water
Row 9:
- Water drops on a neighborhood mural
- Visiting the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit. Funny how a Van Gogh can be like water. Now tha I think of it, the projected light on the ground looked a lot like water.
- My daughters looking at the seals swimming underwater. What an age we live in tha we can have windows to the world like this.