Maui - Sky (November 2019)
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A diety that sometimes nourishes and sometimes punishes, Maui's sky envelopes the island's vistas. It can be a distant hemisphere of unreal blue, stretched from horizon to horizon. It can be a theatrical stage - a vast proscenium - featuring both the light comedy of playful clouds and the dark drama of lashing rains. Whereas the water incessantly moves and agitates, demanding attention, the sky is simply there, its tempo far more measured. The water is clever in its shore-side vibrations and amazing in its high-energy collisions with the rocky shore. But the sky raises more fundamental questions: about origins, about life, about the possibility of higher powers. You suspect that Christian missionaries, used to the structured logic and dark confines of New England's churches, must have been baffled by the sky's vast sweep and by the difficulty of rationalizing the unfettered emotions provoked by the sky with the formalistic strictures of religion as practiced in America.
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Maui's sky isn't always about drama. Sometimes it offers a little quiet contemplation.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.