Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

WordPress uses a photo of dark clouds as sample for the theme “foreshadow”…

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Symphonic Studies: Prelude

By Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

(After Robert Schumann)

“Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July

Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea:

Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in harmony

With the wild, restless tone of air and sky. 

 Shall we not call him Prospero who held

 In his enchanted hands the fateful key

 Of  that tempestuous hour’s mystery,

 And with controlling wand our spirits spelled,

 With him to wander by a sun-bright shore,

 To hear fine, fairy voices, and to fly

 With disembodied Ariel once more

 Above earth’s wrack and ruin? Far and nigh

 The laughter of the thunder echoed loud,

 And harmless lightnings leapt from cloud to cloud.”

Photo by Myra Lambino of storm clouds over Malibu Beach, California

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

                “Ode to the Enchanted Light”

“Under the trees light
 has dropped from the top of the  sky,
 light
 like a green
 latticework of branches,
 shining
 on every leaf,
 drifting down like clean
 white sand.

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“A cicada sends
 its sawing song
 high into the empty air.

 The world is
 a glass overflowing
 with water.”

   – Pablo Neruda, “Ode to the Enchanted Light”

Shot an hour before twilight by Myra Lambino: the Ramble and Lake at Central Park Manhattan New York City, with golden sunlight rendering the iconic San Remo twin-tower, of pre-war classical architecture, iridescent.

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and here’s the explanation and sample photo from WordPress, text and image by Cheri Lucas Rowlands the-golden-hour

 From WordPress:  “In photography, the “golden hour” is the first and last hour of sunlight of the day. Photographers venture out on sunrise hikes or sunset treks to capture a magical shot, due to the quality of the light during that time of day. Last week, I spent several days exploring Quebec City, and the view of the Old Town, from the city’s historic ramparts, is stunning. I took the photo above on our first day of wandering, as the sun began to set.”