I went to Montana yesterday. The sky was so strange. So strange that it was hard know how to make a picture. If you've read my blog you might know that Montana is known as "The Big Sky Country". The strange sky made the land look strange. It was confusing. Hard to put things in order. Not that I feel any need to put things in order.Sunday, May 18, 2008
Big sky
I went to Montana yesterday. The sky was so strange. So strange that it was hard know how to make a picture. If you've read my blog you might know that Montana is known as "The Big Sky Country". The strange sky made the land look strange. It was confusing. Hard to put things in order. Not that I feel any need to put things in order.
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Wasn't there a movie a few years ago called "Big Sky" about a gay man returning home to Montana? It was a nice movie, as I recall (perhaps predating "Brokeback Mountain" as a gay cowboy sort of movie). And lots of nice scenery.
St. Petersburg, Russia also has a big sky. I wonder why some places feel like that and others don't. It's not because of mountains or lack thereof - SPb is flat, Montana has mountains, while Michigan, for instance, is flat but the sky doesn't have this special feeling. And it's not urban vs. nature, because obviously SPb is urban. So what do you think causes Big Sky Feeling? Something to do with the shape of the clouds, maybe?
I think in Montana it has to do with how far you can see. There are great big valleys with large mountains on each side. It makes the sky look big. Even out on the prairie you can usually see for miles. There usually isn't much humidity in the air either. That might have something to do with it.
I don't remember that first movie. I did see Brokeback Mountain and thought the gay cowboy thing was a bit of a stretch the way they did it. One minute they are shooting elk and the next they are tusseling around in the pup tent,.. I've never seen it work that way in cowboy land, but who knows?
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