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yesterday at 5:20 am
Heavy clouds overhead, a giant's puffy quilt
straight edge parallel to mountain range
strip of sky beneath and between
brightening with dawn, rose and gold
a German Romantic painting
Posted by Marja-Leena on August 18, 2007 1:20 AM
Comments
Goodness! Positively Gothic!
Posted by: Mouse | 03:07 18 August 2007
Fantastic, really brooding!
Posted by: Lucy | 09:35 18 August 2007
I thought I would return your visit to Compasses and have been richly rewarded. It's amazine how cloudscapes are neglected by photographers. Constable knew about them and so, I think, did Casper David Friedrich.
Posted by: Joe Hyam | 09:35 18 August 2007
Thanks Mouse and Lucy!
Joe, so pleased to have you visit! I was thinking of Freidrich in particular when I mentioned the German Romantics, so I'm glad you thought of him too. Most of the Romantic painters were into dramatic landscapes with clouds, fog and so on, weren't they?
I have to admit, I think this is a bad photograph. I could not find the night setting on this new camera at that hour! But I love it just because it looks like a painting! The real thing was amazing, really a nice gift after being unable to sleep for a couple of hours.
Posted by: marja-leena | 14:51 18 August 2007
Whether or not you think it's a good photograph, it's a wonderful image. Made me think of Friedrich, too.
Posted by: MB | 09:09 22 August 2007
Thank you, MB, and isn't it great that you also thought of the same artist!?
Posted by: marja-leena | 21:10 22 August 2007
I too think is is a wonderful image. Louring. indeed!
Posted by: herhimnbryn | 14:23 23 August 2007
Herhimbry - thanks. Louring? That's a new word for me - is that a local form of "lowering"?
Posted by: marja-leena | 14:55 23 August 2007