Camera Experiments

Carved and Stacked, Grise Fjord, Canada, 23 March 1989 by Andy Goldsworthy, 1989

Andy Goldsworthy

trying to write a song

I don’t think i’m able to talk to anyone new without saying some fucked up shit

about how my dad died when i was little or which murderer i hate less

on new years day i threw up in a macdonalds parking lot

while a guy smoked a cig in lime green shorts and stared at me a lot 

4/6/19

Today i walked home and i saw the sun shining through the autumn leaves-ephemeral and godly. I stood there, amongst the leaves and a feeling of calamity washed over me. I feel like everything will be okay.

Colors of Earth

When we think of our globe from a distance, we generally visualize two colors: blue and green. Water and land. Mostly water, consequently, our planet’s nickname of the blue marble.

Traveling around the globe every 90 minutes covering millions of miles with a focused lens on our beautiful planet from 250 miles above, I’ve captured many beautiful colors beyond blue and green that showcase Earth in new and interesting ways. Some colors are indicative of nature like desert sands and weather like snow. Other colors tell stories of Earth’s climate in bright splashes of yellows and greens of pollen and muted grey tones and clouded filters of pollution.

Blue and green still remain vivid and beautiful colors on Earth from the vantage point of the International Space Station, but here are some other colors that have caught my eye from my orbital perspective.

African violet

Bahamas blues

Tropical in Africa

Yellow desert

Orange in Egypt

Red surprise 

Snow white 

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“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”

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Sculptor/photographer Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy, Red maple leaves held with water, Ouchiyama River, Japan, 1991

All the colours look brighter now Everything they say seems to sound new Slipping into tomorrow too quick Yesterday always too good to forget Stop the swing of the pendulum Let us through

-Kate Bush, ‘oh to be in love’

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