Weather has been cold, snowy, windy, and icy. That is enough to stay inside and enjoy the warmth of home and hearth. Often times the camera can find nooks and crannies that other wise would not be a usual place to point a camera. Although today, I've had fun with the aspects of camera technique, lighting, and subjects of interest. The above image is certainly and example of time and unusual subject matter; the inside of a Pringle can. Who would of ever thought such a beautiful image could be found in a can?
On a more reminenct note, this image totally reminded me of my high school days and the reading of Dante's Inferno. I have since then revisited this classic and have a deeper appreciation for Alighieri's Divine Comedy. This pictures places me in Canto V in which Dante describes Circle Two. He says, "The pit of Hell tapers like a funnel. The circles of ledges accordingly grow smaller as they descend. He continues, "So we went down to the second ledge alone; a smaller circle of so much greater pain the voice of the damned rose in a bestial moan." He describes Circle Two as a place where torrential rains fall ceaselessly, and gales of wind tear though the air. The souls of the damned in this circle swirl about in the wind, swept helplessly through the stormy air.
The Inferno is as relevant today as it was eight-hundred years ago, as it sees most universal
values; good and evil, man's responsibility, free will. Yet it is intensely personal and political, for it was written out of the anguish of a man who saw his life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his time. And today humankind can still fill Dante's Inferno almost a thousand years later! Thanks Dante Alighieri for your genius that has not lessened in it its appeal, or been obscured by its fame.
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