Post #1: in the courtyard

This is a picture I took in the courtyard in front of the green room cafe last week. While looking up into the trees, it was a hot day and I was feeling sort of tired but in the shade the trees managed to create a really cool area to lay down. I was looking up and took the picture because I loved how shadowy it looks at the bottom of the tree leaves, yet in the bottom left center part of the picture you can see a higher layer of tree leaves completely lit up by the sun. The leaves are so close to each other but because of the way the sun hits them there’s a giant contrast in not just the light but actually the color shown on the leaves  thanks to the light. The leaves went from appearing as a green to a yellow because of the light hitting them on top of the tree. This was also around 2pm so the sun was a little past overhead. 

I also really love the way the sky is completely visible as to how sunny it is out. Nothing is too bright  or too dark too see from the sky to the shade under the tree. The bright blue and lightly cloudy sky is so beautiful through that hole in the roof of the trees. 

I love how the tree isn’t completely blocking the sky from poking through. There’s not enough leaves layered over each other so there’s little specks of howls here and there creating spaces for dots of lights to shine through onto the tree branches. 

Finally I don’t know if it’s a matter of the light but I really love how many different colored leaves there are in this tree. I see at least three shades of green, two shades of orange, and two shades of yellow.