As the kids mucked around in the mud, Tino set up his camera to take photos of a specific tree and sky in our backyard at five second intervals for two hours. 1,220 photos to be precise.
Then he combined the images with a section from Maurice Ravel's Jeux D'eau, which we found for free online at the generous and disarming Piano Society website.
Tino explained, "If you're watching the sky, you can't fully appreciate how many shapes and clouds go by because it moves so slowly." Speeding up the images reveals how the clouds interact, how the light swallows and then disrobes the tree, how the clouds actually appear in layers of shadows and veils. Sublimity. See if you agree.
If you'd like to share it with your kids, I think it makes a swell journal prompt all by itself. Just watch and write your impressions or revelations. Discover the sky in your own backyard- its moods and its variations.
