NYC Journal 73
In the ages to come man may be able to predict, perhaps even to control, the wayward courses of the winds and clouds, but hardly will his puny hands have strength to speed afresh our slackening planet in its orbit or rekindle the dying fire of the sun. Yet the philosopher who trembles at the idea of such distant catastrophes may console himself by reflecting that these gloomy apprehensions, like the earth and the sun themselves, are only part of the unsubstantial world which thought has conjured up out of the void, and that the phantoms which the subtle enchantress has evoked to-day she may ban to-morrow. They too, like so much that to common eyes seems solid, may melt into air, into thin air.
-from The Golden Bough, by Sir James G. Frazer
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
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That first photo fits the excerpt so well! Another great NYC journal to make me glad this is my homepage!
Comment by Jason Lankow — May 23, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
Great shots on here Graeme, lovely stuff. Do you mind me asking what lens you use for these street photos?
Comment by SP — June 3, 2009 @ 11:14 am
SP, a by now very tattered, Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AIS.
It is deceiving in a lot of pics that it is in fact that wide, b/c the lens has remarkably little distortion.
Comment by admin — June 3, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
All can I say this is – these photos are beautiful.
Comment by wózki dziecięce — July 3, 2009 @ 3:28 pm