Beauty and the Beast!
Found two books of photographs in a bookshop yesterday which gave a very poignant example of the differences in the world we live in, between the natural beauty of nature, and man’s inept arrogant desire to destroy it for its own ends.
In the first, there was a “year in the life of Glen Coe”, showing the really spectacular and beautiful images through the seasons of the glen, which was someplace we wandered through two weeks ago while on Honeymoon.
The other was a strangely fascinating but haunting album of photographs of atomic bombs being detonated by the US military during the 50’s and 60s, out in the Nevada desert and on remote pacific atolls.
Both were excellent examples of the art from of photography. But both were also powerful presentations on the wonder of the universe we live in considering its fragility, something which we, as wanderers on this little rock in the universe, appear to have through our own arrogance, greed, stupidity and selfishness, lost sight of to our loss.
Why?
In the first, there was a “year in the life of Glen Coe”, showing the really spectacular and beautiful images through the seasons of the glen, which was someplace we wandered through two weeks ago while on Honeymoon.
The other was a strangely fascinating but haunting album of photographs of atomic bombs being detonated by the US military during the 50’s and 60s, out in the Nevada desert and on remote pacific atolls.
Both were excellent examples of the art from of photography. But both were also powerful presentations on the wonder of the universe we live in considering its fragility, something which we, as wanderers on this little rock in the universe, appear to have through our own arrogance, greed, stupidity and selfishness, lost sight of to our loss.
Why?
posted by Gordon In Aberdeen at 11:09 am
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