Instead, standing astonished on the heights of Hampstead Hill and gazing down at the dome that floats in majesty above the smoke-laden city, she registers the unexpected sweetness of air after rain, of "the green river taste of freshly washed skies".
He led us to the north edge of the mesa to wait in silence as a glow slowly washed the sky.
It's not just the dust which is responsible for the white washed out sky, which was making it hard for me to get the clarity and contrasts I'm after with my photography.
For each boarded up local with a washed out Sky Sports banner flapping in the wind, there are a group of barflies who used to drink together, now broken up and watching TV alone at home.
The experience lasted around eight minutes, and there were moments particularly when looking towards a washed out sky as the avatar soars overhead when it felt genuinely majestic and otherworldly.
The experience lasted around eight minutes, and there were moments – particularly when looking towards a washed out sky as the avatar soars overhead – when it felt genuinely majestic and otherworldly.
For each boarded up local with a washed out Sky Sports banner flapping in the wind, there are a group of punters who used to drink together, now broken up and watching TV alone at home.
The washed out sky cooled to hues of the brightest blue, spackled with cotton-candy clouds, white as snow atop the peaks of the Andes, and highlighted by the blushing sun calling close only to the day, as life was just beginning.
A dark, ink-wash sky hung over it all.
The pictures in this show suggest that his work was more or less concocted to the following recipe: Paint a creakingly sentimental suburban street from across a track or road; add telegraph pole, tree or other object for scale; wash sky or background for mood; and then garnish with local color.
Most North Americans aren't able to see the night sky lit up with these little streaks because of of a full moon that is essentially washing the sky null of meteorites.
