Originally published March 10, 2009 Chiaroscuro lighting is sometimes called Rembrandt lighting. It is very moody and works by putting light onto the focal point of the scene and gently leaving the area surrounding the focal point darker. The Italian word chiaroscuro means light and dark and beyond highlighting the focal point, the contrast between … Read more
Originally written and published February 1, 2009 by Tamara Colloff-Bennett Towards the end of the eighteenth century when the famous classics author Jane Austen made two long visits to Bath and then when she lived in the city from 1801 to 1806 after her father the Reverend George Austen retired to live in the area, … Read more
If it were a blackbird like nearly all other blackbirds, then it would be all black, with a yellow beak. It is leucistic, which means an animal that has whitish fur, plumage, or skin due to a lack of pigment. Its shape and its beak says that it is a blackbird, but it is about … Read more