Joanna Black

Photographer
Do mountains get jealous?
Biography: I was born in Edinburgh to Polish parents and studied photography, film/media and art briefly upon leaving school over 25 years ago but changed direction on the advice of my Mother who in her thick Polish accent said “Joanna, dat is all... MORE
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Do mountains get jealous?
Copyright Joanna Black 2024
Updated Mar 2012
Topics Art, Landscape, Nature, Photography

If mountains could speak and had any say in their evolution did they start off wanting to be mountains?

Of course I know this is silly thought, but it is what I wondered when I saw these hills/mountains/munroes/rocks move past the passenger window of my car. Seeing them through the green and brown blur of roadsides bushes gave them a cinematic, "about to do something" look.  Each one of them had their own quite powerful beauty and easy to imagine anthropomorphic personality.  They were like frozen giants which made me smile as I contemplated; do mountains get jealous of other mountains?

The Highlands are renowned for their mountainous terrain and they share valleys as these massive rock creatures perch side by side like on some cyclopean, titanic, colossal, brobdingnagian couch. 

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