Birch and bracken, Craigellachie NNR
Its been a very gloomy few weeks and I haven’t been out with the camera at all, so here’s one from the last days of autumn. I was on Craigellachie reserve, high up on the (North-facing) slope where at that time of year it only receives direct sunlight for a few minutes during mid-morning, so I was able to move about in the sunrise-sunset zone and be constantly on the edge of the strong light filtering over the crag and through the trees.
“The Great Tone is Nada Brahma, the tone from which God made the world, which continues to sound at the bottom of creation, and which sounds through everything. In Latin the term meaning ‘to sound through something’ is personare. Thus, at the basis of the concept of the person (that which makes a human being an unmistakeable, singular per-sonality) stands a concept of sound: ‘through the tone.’ If nothing sounds through from the bottom of the being, a human being is human biologically, at best, but is not a per-son, because he does not live through the son (the tone, the sound). He does not live the sound which is the world.”
– Joachim Ernst Berendt in ‘The World is Sound – Nada Brahma’
Quietly magical.