One work, My Ghost (2000), was created when a butterfly alighted briefly on the daguerreotype, leaving an exquisitely delicate outline against a vivid sky-blue – an emblem of life's fragility, as well as the soul's passing and the traces of memory.
We landed under searingly vivid skies, something like what the blue tablet from a packet of Easter dye lets off.
Black baseball players stand and look behind chain-link fences, and a boy leans on his bike as we clatter through small towns and under vivid skies.
They will probably feel it is important to give appropriate credit to the tech start-ups, the stock market resurgence and the fact that before, during and after the recession, this place never stopped being a beautiful delusion of high desert, vivid skies and ski-perfect peaks.
When a row of cypress trees did appear, it had a dramatic effect against the vivid blue sky.
And the setting, all chiseled red rocks and vivid blue sky, looked breathtaking.
Goebel and his companions were wearing their blue American outfits, under an even more vivid blue sky.
Now from the safety of a new New Jersey home, I gaze up at a vivid blue sky that engulfs the occasional military jet overhead.
Under a vivid blue sky, workers rake the pale golden coffee beans spread out on the terreiros (concrete patios) to dry against a backdrop of the striated bluff that marks the beginning of the Chapada Diamantina National Park.
The man craned his neck as a fighter jet began its attack, plunging low enough for its markings to be clear against a vivid blue sky as its two rockets crashed into a building.
