13 Ways of Seeing the Sky

Things from the sky

This photo was taken from my 14 story balcony, on a recent day cascaded by fog. To me, this image, which I saved under the name of, “heaven”, signifies the power of perspective. Before capturing this beautiful scene, I was walking home through an ocean of gray, murky fog that blurred everything in the distance. Although the feeling of nothingness and walking through clouds has its own beauty as well, I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived home and got to see the sky from a whole new angle. Being up high, the fog was no longer a tint in the air, but more like a soft, white blanket I was peering at from above.

Here I tried to capture the rain drops in action on camera. This turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated, until I realized the key was taking the photo under the street light at night. Having the goal of trying to get a visual representation of rain drops falling allowed me to think about rain in a new way. While in real life, a rainy day tends to be quite obvious, either from watching the drops fall into puddles or from feeling the pellets slowly wet your face, in photography it often becomes hidden. We can assume whether it is raining in a photo based on the colour of the sky, the wetness of the ground, or from people holding umbrellas, but the rain itself is usually not picked up. This made me think about subtleties that you may not see but can feel.