this has been a summer where my eyes have wandered skywards at the end of many days. i don’t know if there’s any good reason for that other than i’m noticing just how beautiful the skies are. so many colours and shapes and textures and it’s especially rewarding to watch the sky in the last hour or so of dusk as the angle of the sun changes and so do the shades, tints, and colours of the sky and clouds. i’ve always wished that i could paint skies exactly as i see them. i really would love to be able to paint them with the crispness of say salvador dali or christopher pratt, both of whom nail skies in different ways. pratt’s skies almost look airbrushed in their huge fields of diminishing tone while dali’s skies have a more detailed and considered approach. so for now i settle for digital photography. there’s still some art involved in the framing of the shot and the cleaning up afterwards. the two pictures here were actually taken a couple of days ago. i find that for every good image i select, i take anywhere from ten to twenty images from which i pick my choice shots.
anyhow skies. i was wondering for a while if it had anything to do with being sudenly a fifty year old man and contemplating my inevitable skyward journey!! ha!! but i think that it’s more to do with my love of colour and beauty and of the natural world i live inside.
now for those of you with time who are thinking that perhaps the skies in their own neighbourhood are sort of boring, you should go here:
http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
this is an absolutely beautiful site filled with images from all over the world of skies and clouds and it tells you about the different kinds of clouds. amazing!
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