Cloud Projections by Blake Gordon

Light pollution may be the bane of astronomers, but they are art to photographer Blake Gordon. In his photograph series Cloud Projections, Blake captured patterns of lights from buildings in downtown Austin, Texas:

"I captured defined patterns of light above the city when atmospheric conditions were right," he explained in an email. This is part of a larger interest in seeing "the clouds as a surface." For instance, Gordon mentioned that he had also produced "rough images from a plane flight in Minnesota where I saw the reverse: low winter clouds gave light pollution a medium to mark upon, and towns broadcast their cluster signals to those above."
About these "broadcasts," Gordon asks: "Some of them were so precise that it’s hard to conceive that they are just afterthoughts of a lighting design. Would it still be called light pollution?"

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