Heroes Not Zombies

What would you say this is a photo of? A couple of trees? A grey sky? A rainbow?

The answer, of course, is “all of the above”. But it’s more than that as well.

I have lots of photos of rainbows. Rainbows are hugely popular, both with children and adults. They never cease to grab our attention and stir a sense of wonder. The rainbow is a symbol – of hope, of the possibility of a pot of gold over there, of a promise, of diversity.

All my photos of rainbows are different. I like this one because it doesn’t “foreground” the rainbow. Instead it provides a backdrop to the trees and a layer of colour between the trees and the grey sky.

Rainbows reveal some of the rich diversity of what creates invisible or white light. Without rainbows or prisms we aren’t aware of that richness, that beauty, that complex diversity which is contained within everyday sunlight.

I think that’s one of the reasons I like rainbows so much – they remind me of the beauty of depth (and of how much we don’t see when we keep our gaze on the superficial or the partial).

Understanding progresses as we explore the depths, the what lies beneath the apparent. There’s nothing I enjoy more than increasing my understanding of a person, of myself, and of this world.,