Terrible Beauty of Taos

by JHF on January 19, 2010 · 2 comments

in Nature

Okay, I think it’s time for one of these. I shot this today.

I was going a little crazy again, trying to understand what was gnawing at me. I also had to decide if something I’d been attracted to recently was a great idea or suicide in disguise. For better or worse, I went out walking in the snow with my camera. Wouldn’t you know it, the terrible beauty sucked everything right out of me, including the gnawing and the dilemma. I mean, how can anyone argue with this? Either as the thing in itself or what it might stand for??

Taos photo, vertical orientation

I didn’t mind the snow after taking a few more like this, either.

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carolfrombatonrouge January 20, 2010 at 11:02 am

GORGEOUS !!!!
such vastness….love it John

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JHF January 20, 2010 at 11:12 am

The vastness gets me every time… the SCALE of the landscape. Every time I want to escape, it pulls me back in.

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