wet things / melting into shadows

 

 

 

«This aesthetic treatment of matters of natural history, despite the 

wonderful power and flexibility of the language of our native land, 

carries with it tremendous difficulties of composition. The richness of 

Nature encourages an agglomeration of individual images that disturbs 

the calmness and the overall impression of the portrait. In appealing to 

feeling and fancy, style easily degenerates into poetic prose. These 

ideas are here in need of no development, as the following pages offer 

manifold examples of such aberration, of such a lack of composure.» 

 

—Alexander von Humboldt, Views of Nature