We’re still in Stromovka Park, but the signs are indicating that we’re close to Troja, which is just outside the park and across a footbridge that spans a small river. But before we begin the next leg of the journey, as the title says, an interlude.

I’m a spiritual person, but I believe that’s a very private affair and my beliefs have no place in this blog or in general discussion. Let’s just leave it at that I’m spiritual, and as such I feel that I’ve found myself in places because of it.

To that end, if ever there were a moment in time where I felt that I was destined to be a photographer, it was when I snapped this shot. Well, not at the time of exposure as at that instance, I had no idea what I’d done. So I guess it was while I was in the darkroom and saw the first test print come up in the soup. When I framed up the buildings and added in the vast expanse of the sky, I had no idea what was forming on the emulsion. I just liked the juxtaposition of the old building crowned by tress and the sky.

During the printing stage, I had to add a bunch of extra time just to get any detail in the clouds, and when I accidently went too far, I found, well…

…this

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A Brief Moment of Immortality, Praha, 2001

Now, I see “it” as plain as day, others do as well, and some see something totally different. Some just see a cloud. I can’t help but think it’s a sign that I’m doing what I need to be doing with my time here. That is to say, walking around with my head in the clouds, tripping on how beautiful and random life can be in the string of fleeting moments that make up our existence. A second or two here or there, a glance down instead of up and what we’re supposed to discover slips by us. Unless you believe you’re tapped into the life essence that will put your two feet in the exact place they’re destined to occupy at the exact moment of time that enables you to witness those tiny miracles that re-affirm, “You Are.”