To Everything A Season
April 7, 2011 | Filed Under Uncategorized
“Many shall be restored that now are fallen
and many shall fall that now are in honor”
Horace (Ars Poetica)“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
Heraclitus
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It’s hard to write anything that doesn’t sound glib recently. I console myself with the voices of those long dead, who remind us that there is nothing so constant as change.
There’s only so long you can spend watching footage of the tsunami before you start to die a little inside. I needed eye-bleach, and photos of better times helped. We spent three weeks ice climbing in Cogne in January, and a few days on the ice at Akadake in Japan. It seems like a lifetime ago.
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I missed your mountain photographs. These are stunning as always! The one with the climbers on a thin wall of snow between two peaks looks unreal.
Hoping the constant change will be for the better in the coming weeks, months.
Good to see you posting again Chris. I still haven’t put up the pictures from our little outing back in August!
The second, third and fourth (in reverse order perhaps) pictures from the bottom are a winner series! They explain climbing, and perhaps the outdoors in general, better than any words could do.
Awesome photos.
Ah, the wait is over!
The first photo fits really well the transition from the tsunami to climbing. Nicely done.
And the composition of number 3 is awesome!
Feels like we’ll need soul-bleach, but hopefully such a thing doesn’t exist!
It feels good to see in your post a mountain I actually have hiked up before (in summer though!). I have a souvenir Akadake banner hanging on the entrance hall to my Florida apartment now in fact.
I like her face in the 4th photo from the top, and the snowy hikers shot and the jet trail across the purple sky.
the photos are stunning as ever. Glad you found the time and the will to post them and the report
hope things are settling down even though I guess it never can truly.
all the best, Dave
great Images. greetings from the USA. Richard from the Amish community of Lebanon,Pa
I think I speak for everyone who regularly views your blog when I say that we all miss your introspection and wonderful photos. Please, start blogging again. Your work is a priceless commodity we cant do without!
Thanks Steve. Hopefully, near-normal service will resume soon. I’ve got some trips in the pipeline…,
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Awesome Blog!
Those are some great summits and views
Great photos Chris; they’re so crisp! What are you shooting with?
Hey Evan – thanks!! I’ve got a (thoroughly bashed) Nikon D80 with a Nikkor 18-200 VR lens on it – but I think the biggest improvement is the polarizing filter, which I keep on at all times.