Clouds have been a big deal for me ever since early childhood, and were the subject of some of my earliest photos. So when the New York Times recently published a photo article on “Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds“, a piece recognizing the Cloud Appreciation Society, I asked some of my photographer friends with whom I regularly correspond to show us an example of their own cloud pieces.
Learn more about the Cloud Appreciation Society here and here.
Bill responds with a formal study perhaps evoking Alfred Steiglitz, Jim offers a cloudless alternative with a nod to Ansel Adams, I grab the first two images returned from a keyword search of my catalogs, John commemorates the death of a friend, and Corbin makes us want to join him for a stroll on the beach of his Venice neighborhood.
Corbin Smith
flickr.com/photos/sigcorbin/albums
James Friedman
jamesfriedmanphotographer.com
Jim says he has no cloud work to share, but offers us this alternative. Ansel would surely be appreciative.
John Wallace
http://www.johnwallacephoto.com/-/galleries/journal
John tells us that this photo was shot to catch the very last rays of the sunset on the day that a dear photographer friend of his family had died.
Lawrence Hathaway
happyhogrot.com
William Wertz
https://www.facebook.com/bill.wertz1/