Summertime Sadness -- Sunset from Windy Hill, California is a photograph by Matt Tilghman which was uploaded on April 23rd, 2019.
Summertime Sadness -- Sunset from Windy Hill, California
Staring westward from the top of Windy Hill, California... the sun sets over an endless fog-covered Pacific Ocean.... more
Title
Summertime Sadness -- Sunset from Windy Hill, California
Artist
Matt Tilghman
Medium
Photograph
Description
Staring westward from the top of Windy Hill, California... the sun sets over an endless fog-covered Pacific Ocean.
I often title my photos based on feelings or emotions evoked while I was there. Not this one. In fact, I don't believe I even took this photo in summer. Furthermore, I didn't even post-process and publish this photo until about ten years after I took it. Nothing about it really struck me at the time. But now, almost a decade later, it strikes me deeply. I think the title "Summertime Sadness" fits from an aesthetic standpoint... the bright sun and clear sky, the lens flares, the overall sepia hue. But for the, the title fits even better from an emotional standpoint. Rediscovering this photo after so many years have passed, and having since moved away from California, it is soaked with nostalgia and, in a way, sadness. Not a deep lingering sadness, because that phase of life had run its course and is full of happy memories, not regrets. Rather just a fleeting sadness of good times gone past.
Uploaded
April 23rd, 2019
