A is for Angles

Paper Tower by Shigeru Ban, South Bank Centre, London,  by Cybermyth13.

Angles in the Paper Tower by Shigeru Ban at the South Bank Centre, London. The tower, seen from below, is 22m high and made of cardboard tubes with metal joints. It was part of the 2009 London Design Festival.

X is for X

Contrails and blue sky forming the Scottish flag, by Cybermyth13.

Contrails in the sky form an X in the sky over Hackney on a Sunday afternoon in October 2010. It resembles the Scottish flag.

X in Conor's A-Z.

Z is for Zero

Look, No Planes (and no clouds) over London, by Cybermyth13.

A picture of zero planes and zero clouds over Leicester Square, London, in April 2010, as the planes were grounded over the UK by the ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland. The suggestion was that there were fewer clouds because there were no planes and so no contrails.

Z in Conor's A-Z.

Pictures of the sky

Contrails in the shape of a cross on a Sunday, originally uploaded by Cybermyth13.

Sometimes the simple pictures work best. It started as a bit of a joke. When the planes were not flying because of the ash cloud from Iceland, it was suggested that there were fewer clouds because of the absense of contrails or vapour trails from planes. So I posted a picture of the clear blue sky over Leicester Square. It was a completely blue picture of the sky. When the planes returned, I posted a picture of a plane with a contrail in a blue sky. I then progrssed onto pictures of storm clouds and an odd isolated cloud in the shope of a spaceship. Then one Sunday afternoon I noticed how busy the sky was. In particular two contrails crossed each other and looking through the camera I realised some shapes coulld be created from the white trails against a blue background. My favourite was the simple cross above. The lesson is to look up to see the pictures in the sky.

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