Tuesday evenings I go to “night school”. To get from where I work to the college I have to circumnavigate a large industrial complex which contains one or two “cloud machines”. I often get glimpses of all sorts of tantalizing images on my journey round, but I can’t get distracted because I need to get to college. Well at the moment there must be a winter high pressure sitting over us because we’re getting the classic windless, cloudless, frosty nights. Anyway the output from these “cloud machines” normally blends very quickly with the real clouds and/or gets dispersed by the wind. Last night it was rising straight up unchallenged. Well actually it kept going until it runs out of energy, that is (I assume) till it cools down to the temperature of the surrounding air (or is it that it reaches and inversion boundary, he says as if he understood what that meant).

Whatever the sight greeting me as I arrived at the college was quite captivating, the challenge being there wasn’t a strong enough silhouette on the ground, I thought, to complete a decent composition and I didn’t have time to go looking for one. Nevertheless, I gave it a go and couldn’t believe my luck when this light came on through a window. However, as you can see, it helps but the result is still somewhat lacking.

As I looked at this just before posting, I realised there’s a rather unfortunate connection might be made with this. Just in case anybody makes it, I’d just like to say now it was totally unintentional.