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Michael, Thank you so much for thoughtful radiance and guidance. The ethereal image you posted on Dec 13 and the gentle one by Hans on March 5 especially continue to draw my eye and inspire. Irresistible iridescence!
If you’re dreaming and you see a goat swim over a ridge, then go to look for it, you will likely find something quite different on the other side. This effect is due to DWI (Dream World Instability) and, if you’re aware enough, you can then have yourself a sweet lucid adventure. If you’re not dreaming, you might still find the goat transformed. Which goes to show that waking life can be as magical as dreams if you know what to look for.
Over the RidgeHans, drifting back to your “something completely different”, I’ve been wanting to tell you how I was swept away with your image there. It had for me the emotional quality of spirits lifting. Then the sway and play of Michael’s cleverly titled Meandering Sunset or A Slipped Dusk had me ready to dance at all costs.
And thank you, Hygge, for pointing out another face in Han’s Etching. I’d been out of town for a few days with only a cell phone for viewing and at first glance, a larger face emerged on the tiny screen. It is facing forward with two dark horizontal areas for eyes, the mouth clearly in place beneath a hint of nose. I completely missed the smaller face in profile you described until I viewed the image later on a larger screen. As happens so often, the more one looks, the more one sees.
Just catching up now with all of these lovely new additions to the thread.
Ball of YarnThank you for your comments and the interesting links, Hygge. Your mention of the ability to see complex shapes reminds me of a relaxing morning I spent years ago sitting on a lanai with an old friend in Hawaii. Our conversation drifted and morphed along with the skyful of cumulus clouds above us. I kept pointing out fantastic figures as they took shape while my friend would nod and say, “Oh yes, I see that now”. After several instances of this, she exclaimed, “And there’s a bowling ball!”. I believe there’s an old Peanuts cartoon that describes a similar scenario. The funny thing is, every once in awhile, I see her “bowling ball” roll by — a perfect little round cloud like the one towards the bottom of the left-hand photo below. I try to catch these instances with a quick photo to send to her. Most recently, however, I sent her the right-hand image below, claiming I was just a bit late with the camera and her ball had just passed through. I’ve never seen a cloud shape like this before, have you? This one looks like it’s grown a couple of legs and feet for a walk across the sky.
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Thank you for this new, fun topic, Hygge! Below is the CAS Cloud A Day photo for 17 January 2017, an image from NASA’s AIM spacecraft of the sky above Antarctica. I gasped when I first saw it as it reminded me of an usual photo I’d taken back in May 2016. To my whimsical mind, it had the look of a Piggy in PJs (onesies with snaps down the front), standing upright and balancing a small cloud on his snout (as outlined in image on the right). How endlessly entertaining the skies above can be.
And here’s a thicker blanket to enjoy a nap with while we dream up more cloudscapes. (If you’d like to have it in a soft sky blue color, see the Not B&W thread.)
No doubt Turner would have liked your view very much, Hans. It feels so restful to my eyes, I’d like to carry it into my next dream. And here’s a nice soft blanket for the nap.
Blue Blanket
These images are electrifying all the way down. I am loving this dance! More music comes to mind.
Hans, I’ve not used the Cloudspotter app yet, but will give it a try today to see what happens.
Symphony
The information shared here is helpful in many ways, so Thank You, Michael and Hans, for All of this. Even though I have only an iPhone 5 for photographing, the approach and attitudes you both share are training my eye in new ways. Here is a cloudscape we might all enjoy “darting around” in.
Cloudscape
Black and White Volume I was fantastic — Thank you to all! Michael, your final offering to the first collection reminds me of the Zen koan about the sound of one hand clapping. It was the perfect finale to keep us inspired. And Hans, you’ve started us off with quite an evocative image. Here’s to continuing the dance…
Tango
Over the Ridge
Ball of Yarn
