Bronze / 2022 / Nature / Sky

Life of a Cloud in Less Than 4 Minutes

  • Prize
    Bronze in Nature/Sky
  • Photographer
    Willa Davis, United States
  • Studio
    None
  • Website

It was a hot day in the Anza Borrego desert, under a cloudless, deep blue sky. Then this single, queen conch-shaped cloud appeared over the barren desert hills. In less than 4 minutes it dissolved into the, once again, cloudless sky. On my way home I thought about that strange, shape-shifting cloud. My sister had recently passed away. When we were kids we would lie in the grass and find pictures in the clouds. On that day, in the desert, I first saw a queen conch shell cloud, then a Mountain Sheep, then a woman with flowing hair, and then she was gone. I said, with a tear in my heart, goodbye.

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