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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on December 12, 2018, 09:29:32 am

Title: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: Chris Calohan on December 12, 2018, 09:29:32 am
As winter sets in, what little greenery left on the few trees left standing, wilts away adding to the already dismal feel of constant despair. Bay County, FL lost 75% of all it's trees.
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: RSL on December 12, 2018, 09:52:53 am
That's a sad story, Chris, but it's a fine photograph.
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 12, 2018, 02:06:55 pm
That's a sad story, Chris, but it's a fine photograph.
I agree.
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on December 12, 2018, 02:17:07 pm
That's a sad story, Chris, but it's a fine photograph.

It is. And it's good to see you posting again, Chris.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: Chris Calohan on December 12, 2018, 04:30:18 pm
It's so hard to get in the mood to shoot but when I awoke to this nice fog, I went right for the camera. Nice to do some editing again.

I just finished remodeling this house in April....I'm almost inconsolable.
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: RSL on December 12, 2018, 07:45:54 pm
It's a tragic sight, Chris, but as your saying goes: if it's broke, fix it.
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: Chris Calohan on December 12, 2018, 08:33:36 pm
Working on it now but with a new standing seam metal roof and hurricane shutters
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: sdwilsonsct on December 12, 2018, 08:36:56 pm
Working on it now but with a new standing seam metal roof and hurricane shutters

Brutal. Sorry for your loss here.
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 12, 2018, 11:12:34 pm
Very sorry for your loss, and good luck with the restoration.

Eric
Title: Re: Hurricane Michael, Day 63: Beauty in the Beast
Post by: RMW on December 13, 2018, 05:34:16 am
Chris.
Very sorry to see all the destruction.
Here's a poem by Wendell Berry I've often taken solace in.
Hope it helps a little.
Richard


The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
 and I wake in the night at the least sound
 in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
 I go and lie down where the wood drake
 rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
 I come into the peace of wild things
 who do not tax their lives with forethought
 of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
 And I feel above me the day-blind stars
 waiting with their light. For a time
 I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.