wonders
October 12th 2007 01:28
Awe is a beautiful thing. What causes a person to gasp in astonishment or marvel with unbridled passion? It’s a combination of things: scope, scale, perspective, arrangement, feat, ingenuity … aesthetics, basically. These aesthetics might be bizarre, they might be beautiful. But they command out attention because we feel privileged to be able to witness them.
I do plan to visit some of these places soon though. So I can gaze in wonder and awe in close proximity. But for the meantime I have my life enriched vicariously through photography
Well, let’s see then. I’ve put together a selection of images that roughly capture what I feel to be wonders of the world; from nature, from the industrial world, from the ancient world, from the modern world, from Earth and from space.
Some of these are “traditional”, while others are a little more eclectic. Overall I’m sure the majority you’ll agree will have some kind of positive effect on your sense of wonder. Who knows, you might even see something there for the first time and actually find yourself thinking “Wow! That is extraordinary; I’ve never seen that before!”
Of course it would be most glorious to be able to witness these wonders in the flesh so to speak. However as I look at them again I find myself shamefully admitting that I have not seen any of these places or things for real, only in photographs. But hey, sometimes photography captures things even better than seeing them for real … but not very often.
Obviously they are all fantastic! I don't know which ones to pick as absolute favourites ... The footprint of the abominable snowman has always fascinated me, I believe in the yeti more so than sasquatch (bigfoot). The architectural marvels are always good to look at. But then nature's wonders, such as the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls, or the northern lights are breathtaking. Some would argue the moon landing is a hoax, but even so, it's the most impressive global deception I can think of, a truly marvellous lie!
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