Saturday's Temperature

Rise and fall

Saturday 28th February 2015

Not a good day for being out and about photographing, the light was overcast and gloomy most of the day. I had enough of gloomy yesterday! We have a Galileo thermometer (the sort that has colourd liquid in glass bulbs inside a glass cylinder filled with another liquid), the bulbs rise and fall depending on the temperature. I decided to photograph the bulbs in close up. To bring out the colour and contrast, I backlit the thermometer, exposing for the light (contre Jour again) this enabled the light to shine through the coloured liquids, whilst leaving the outer liquid and cylinder in deep shadow. The black discs are the weights on the bulbs. I quite like it.