SOMERSET LEVELS 371 – LOOKING INTO THE DISTANCE
July 20, 2019 8 Comments
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The view into the distance, into another world perhaps. I say this because, years ago, when I was braver, more reckless and probably more romantic than I am now, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in very wild places, in Arabia and in Kenya, and to some extent high up in the Western Alps too. And I remember being totally drawn and excited by the dim twinkling of far off lights seen through the blues of dawn and dusk – both from the ground and from aircraft. I felt I was looking into another world, seeing something almost magical, with feelings both of excitement and awe.
But of course, in walking, motoring or flying to those twinkling lights, reality reasserted itself, the magical became mundane – and it was only when I looked back behind me, back towards where I had been, that I could see the magic once more … ha! >>> such is life >>> such is the reality of things!
But, even now, all these years later, and when I can infuse enough blood into my alcohol stream, looking deeply into far off blues – the vast calm indigos of John Fowles – still gets to me. A little bit of the magic is still there, and I am most grateful for that.
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Landscape v2 profile; looking east from Queen’s Sedge Moor, on the Somerset Levels; 5 July 2019.
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What a rabbit hole you sent me down, Adrian. I went from enjoying your image to enjoying your text to borrowing Jeremy Irons’s reading of The French Lieutenant’s Woman (audiobook) to discovering that I can watch videos on Overdrive, which I just did—a documentary on Cirque du Soleil. (Talk about magic!) Thanks for the whole trip! Keep ’em coming.
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Rabbit holes are good >>> as long as no one’s out and about with a ferret!!!
Very glad you got so much enjoyment.
LOL! >>> I will do my best to keep ’em coming!!!!!!!! 😀
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Let there always be such magic for you!
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My friend, thank you so much for that wish. I have a feeling, or is it hope, that the magic is staying around. A
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It’s wonderful that you can visit places closer to home which evoke the feelings associated with those vast open far away spaces!
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Yes, wonderful it is, I feel very fortunate.
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A beauty and yes, I understand.
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I’m so glad that you do, my friend >>> LOL! here is a little bit of “the core of me”, what gets to me, some of the magic of things …
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