{"id":100,"date":"2008-05-28T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-05-28T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T23:14:26","slug":"clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOUD APPRECIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rather enjoyed reading this letter in the Telegraph<\/a> today written by\u00c2\u00a0Lucy Anderson-<\/p>\n

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“Sir – It was a pleasure to hear the author Richard Hamblyn talking about clouds on the radio at the weekend. I enjoyed imagining the different types of sky he described.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Mr Hamblyn said that Shropshire was a good place for cloud-spotting, because the hills produced fine examples. Somehow I had generally connected cloudscapes with the big skies one sees above flat countryside. Perhaps my assumption was partly based on the cloud-piled paintings of Constable depicting his native Suffolk.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>But on looking again at Constable’s cloud paintings on the internet, I find some of his most striking specimens were painted at his London home in Hampstead – a hilly spot.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Do other readers find that clouds are more spectacular in some favourite spot?”<\/span><\/p>\n

And here’s one of Constable’s cloud paintings from Hampstead-<\/p>\n

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John Constable (1776-1837)
\n‘Hampstead Heath; Branch Hill Pond’\u00c2\u00a01828
\nOil on canvas from the V&A Collection<\/p>\n

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It was an exhibition of photographs by Ansel Adams<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on display in Yosemite National Park which I saw while on a family holiday when I was 14 that first inspired me to take photographs. I was mesmorised by these\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>sublimely beautiful images of the untouched American wilderness, and I remember being particularly struck by his ability to capture clouds. A feature of the landscape which had, until then, completely passed me by.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley, 1942<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, 1942<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maybe I’m just a romantic, but I’ve been a fan ever since. Of Adams and clouds.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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For other cloud fans out there, take a look at the Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

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