You don’t have to look very far to see something beautiful. Beauty is all around us but sometimes it isn’t easy to see, sometimes you might not even notice it as we pass by living our busy lives.Stop. Look around you. Look. Look closer. What do you see? Beautiful isn’t it.
Just a small ball of ice-blue lichen clinging to a twig; fragile and tortuous in its frost like complexity and below, fused to the surface of a large rock, an aerial map of green, brown, orange, purple, red - what country is that? What planet?
Worlds in themselves, thousands of years in the making, a freak of fungus and green alga, almost nothing really - but what beautiful nothing.
Lynda Henderson commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeletebeautiful images, and yes beautiful nothing! what life is all about. Good stuff, made me a bit happier on this dreary Monday. Thanks Andi.
Floramcdora tweeted:
ReplyDeleteI think your photos are lovely. Come on, when's the exhibition?!
I never took photographs before this blog - now I can't stop. All of a sudden I get it.
ReplyDeletePhil Ogden commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteC'mon Andy - I can see the 'photo/words' combination working nicely as a coffee table book. Get on with it!!
Tony Payne e-mailed
ReplyDeleteAndi, fantastic pictures - the top looks like deceased coral and the bottom is like bubbling sulpher. It's amazing what you can see when you really look.
Alan Spence e-mailed
ReplyDeleteBeauty is in the eye of the beholder. Is that the mind's eye?
Or just one eye and if so which one the right or the left, or
if your left eye'd the left or the right?
I knew a guy at school called Alge, but he was ugly.
I bet his mum thought so too.
Magic photos AKH - you really have an eye for it.
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