Fog

I remember, when I was a boy growing up in London, how there would be foggy days when we could hardly see to the other side of the road. Those days are largely gone but every so often there is a foggy day which now makes the news. The picture below was taken recently and shows something about which we were never aware when I was young: that the fog had a vertical limit. It seemed  to us at ground level that the fog went on indefinitely - quite literally into the clouds. That seems not to be the case.
As I've noticed whenever I've taken off in a plane from a rainy airport, above the clouds the sun is always shining.

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From the sublime...

...to this!

Winterlandschaft ('Sort of') - Caspar David Friedrich (1811)

Having searched for Winterlandschaft (by its English title I must add), Google seems to have got wise to my interests. During a completely unconnected search not long after, Google suggested the image above. It obiterates the drama and intrigue of the original somewhat but having given you the original, I thought it allowable to lighten the load with this amusement.

To Start A New Year

Winterlandschaft (also called Winter Landscape with Church) - Caspar David Friedrich (1811)

Here's something to ponder over at the start of a new year. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was a German Romantic painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His landscape paintings has a often have a dark brooding atmosphere and the more one looks the more one finds lying hidden in plain sight or blended-in within the shadows. What does this painting suggest? Is this a bleak mid-winter scene or is there something of spring that somehow inverts its whole meaning?

At another year's closing

To end the year, another unattributed quote. (I have plenty - attributed and unattributed - they just seem to collect.)

"We are on an endless journey into the infinity of God."

The corollary of this is that there can be no end and that simply being on the road should be everything for which one can hope.

HAPPY NEW YEAR
when it comes

Merry Christmas

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Seeing Right Angles

 

I saw this in an exhibition in North Wales over a year ago and was then fortunate enough to find it online at the photographer's website. This image, like others produced by the artist Neil Coombs very much appeals to my fascination with right angles and the space they confine. As his other photographs also show, Coombs sees things within the broader canvas of everyday sight and captures those fragments within the confines of an image.

Visit Neil Coombs at his Wordpress site to see more.