I was looking through the pictures I took in Hagley Park in Christchurch NZ from the summer, when the sky was so, I guess you would describe it as 'unreal' when it is very much so. it was so beautiful it seemed edited. but that's nature for you, sometimes it astounds you from time to time and you feel a hint of the 'sublime' you think may or may not exist. The clouds were so stretched it seemed someone had stretched it out intentionally, meaning to spread across the whole sky like some jam on toast. instead, it hangs, so still for capture. I was about to post this picture on Instagram when I thought about the dissatisfaction of looking at a landscape photo (in every sense of the word) when you are scrolling on the app. it seemed easy to skip through, like it would go by unnoticed, like its details deserve to have .05 more seconds of your time taking up space on your timeline. I rotated it, and it felt much closer to what it was like, for some reason, you can see the magnificent clouds behind the stark silhouette of the trees. an uncertain time of day. when I look at it this way, it seems the clouds are the right way round, almost standing. then I notice the trees later, the bottom part seem strangely stretched with the accompanying clouds. It does make me think more about seeing these nature pictures on social media apps, especially Instagram. when you save these pictures in your 'collection', is it because you wish to go there? is it simply because you want to look at it at any time? do you own the colours in this image now? are you over-romanticising this simple photograph of some trees and the sky?
