I have been so taken in the past by various clouds here along the Mediterranean in the South of France that I've just started pointing my camera at the sky and shooting:
click click click click.
Et voila! I'm done.
Oh no! They moved and they're even better now!
click click click click click click!
click click click click click click!
And there it is!
Oh, but now look at it!
click click click click click.
I will never ever miss film rolls in film cameras. I was never rich enough for it.
Nevertheless this is not the easiest way to get a good picture.
Many months ago, in Theoule Sur Mer, I tried converting my images into something akin to Monet paintings, but the loss of reality was too much for the delicate French reality of the skies. Today, from our kitchen window and out over the hills above a hotel built for Queen Victoria to winter in, on a hot, not particularly clear day, there were the kind of astonishing clouds that had me at it again with my camera.
The same thing happened really, the clouds kept changing and getting better or stranger, the pictures seemed grand when I looked at them one way, and then they looked like I took some pictures of clouds when I looked at them another way.
Which, fairly speaking, is what they were.
But I think I've got a better editing routine this time.
And I like this little series, though your mileage may vary.
I do want to say though that I don't think the clouds here on the Cote d'Azur are better. Yes, there are some things that are better here, absolutely. But clouds?
One of my favorite things about clouds as they seem to be able to pull it off anyhwere.
Fortunately that still includes here...
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