Damn! I thought this thread had been pretty much dealt with. Now I find that there are more beautiful pics by Blurred, and I’m being castigated for for using the term “teasing” when talking about nature.
First, those shots are knock dead beautiful, Blurred. You are so lucky to have an openess to the whole sky. The pics are panoramic majesty.
Second, just for pandora, a rambling explanation. I live in desert country with mountains north and south of me. In the summer, it can get hotter than hell here. every few days, moist air will come in from the south and because of the mountains, get pushed into the upper atmosphere where that moisture turns to clouds that push on into the valley I live in. Oh, for a few drops of rain to cool things off! But it rarely happens, It rains, but the rain evaporates befor it hits the ground. If that isn’t teasing, I don’t know what else to call it. I could go further and explain and expand on the meteorlogical phenomenom, but that isn’t necessary for me to connect clouds laden with moisture to the metaphor “teasing”. That you can’t envision the connection isn’t my problem. Beyond that, I see beauty in the latent possibilities of nature’s grand shows. Will there be lightning and thunder? Wind? Rain? Sometimes, the anticipation created by watching those clouds roll in is it’s own beauty. Just to confuse and alienate you further, I’ve seen clouds that are pregnant with rain. Huge dark rolling clouds that have yet to release their moisture but will soon. It’s watching the immanent birth of a rain storm, and to me that’s beautiful. Again, if you can’t appreciate that, it’s not my problem. But that is just part of black, white, and grey. Almost anyone can produce acceptable color pics. Everyone likes a kodachrome moment. What might fail in composition is masked over by the oooh, pretty colors! It takes a good eye to “see” in black and white, and to compose a photo that evokes what most see as beauty.
I suspect that you are attempting to call out the inane bullshit exclamations of “everything is beautiful”. I’d agree with that. I get tired of those who look at ticky tacky junk and call it beautiful so as to not hurt feelings. I hate fake “beautiful”. I think most here would agree with that. But the issue isn’t even color or lack of color. What is beautiful is whatever strikes that chord in us that we respond with the term, “beautiful”.
One more time, be careful with dissing the POV of others simply because you don’t understand or like what they’ve decided is beautiful.
FWIW, I’ve critiqued some of Anita’s photos not to diss her work, but to maybe give hints how to make them better. I haven’t critiqued any of Blurred’s photos. I’m afraid of her.