Archive for March, 2006

Cathedral and reflection

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

It’s not often you see the shadows of gargantuan buildings cast across the sky like this. Shadows, I think, are usually perceived as personal ones or perhaps of trees whose forms create a small area of shade on the ground. No one comments on them much, they are voids more than statements. Seeing this reflection/projection, that of Salisbury Cathedral on the overcast night sky felt more like a cosmic event – like a comet or meteor shower or eclipse. The ground-set floodlights were the source of the reflection, its rays shooting up every corner, wall, gargoyle and saint and reforming, haloed, in the sky. What does it all mean?

Equinox orange

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Equinox orange

As the celestial bull tosses the spinning earth from one of its horns to the other at the moment of the vernal (spring) equinox (this year at 18.26 GMT on 20 March), the Nowruz orange, so still in a bowl of clear water, wobbles. The new year has begun and we will find Spring and all its promises. Enjoy more images of Nowruz, the Zoroastrian and Persian New Year on my flickr set of Nowruz photographs and take away a flavour of how it is celebrated.