Thursday, 23 February 2012

Blue Sky Days

I love blue skies, that azure colour lifts my spirits, even when I'm feeling down. I've also found the blue sky makes a beautiful backdrop for plain branches.


This one has an apparent colour fade in the sky, even as the branches themselves fade into almost nothing. I love the fractal nature of the branches, as they split off over and over again. I can imagine the branching continuing ad infinitum, well beyond the limits of vision and it gives me a feeling that there is always more than I can see.


The sky here makes the perfect background for beech husks while allowing the sunlit bud tips to stand out too:


or, from a different angle, the clear blue provides a calm background for the silhouette without competing detail to interrupt the view:


Whatever the subject of my attention, sky blue is such a calming colour, that I feel I can slow down and take the time to appreciate what is there to be seen. Staring at any of these pictures makes me feel that, if I chose to do so, I could lose myself in meditation within that image and it is lovely to find something that can give me that peace.







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