More than storms, I’ve always been fascinated by the calm before them. The sun hides before the clouds, the wind starts to blow, the birds stop singing, and in this monumental silence you know something big is about to happen, like entering in another dimension, when humans and nature didn’t broke the connections – “beyond the horizon, in the place we lived when we were young”. I once saw an impressionist painting at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam – “The Calm before the Storm”, but I failed to remember the name of the painter, and never found it elsewhere, but never ceased to haunt my mind. Here is a tribute to the fantastic atmosphere of the calm before the storm, captured by talented photographs.
Photo credit Maryna Khomenko
Photo credit Caras Ionut
Photo credit Jan Steiner
Photo credit Hemant Shehrawat
Photo credit Caras Ionut
Photo credit Andreas Hemb
Photo credit Steve Docwra
Photo credit Maryna Khomenko
Photo credit Johntake
Photo credit Maryna Khomenko
Photo credit Sapna Reddy
Photo credit Eric C.
Photo credit Bela Torok
Photo credit Igor Isachenko
Photo credit Geoffrey van Beylen
Photo credit Anokha Goonewardena
Photo credit Jan Seminski
Photo credit Warke Ricker
Photo credit Sergiu Sechel
Photo credit Dietrich Bojko
Photo credit Alan Wild
Photo credit Raiko Rosenberg
Photo credit The Lady Margaret
Wed, Jul 18, 2012
Photo Inspiration, Travel Photography