Just a glimpse of truth... - a photo on Flickriver

I own a whole bunch of defects, among which is to ponder, from time to time, over the limits of human knowledge. When I bumped into this scene, more than one year after having captured it, I was struck by such bad thoughts. That early morning in Calella (Catalunya, Spain) I took a series of sunrise shots where the actual show of the sunrise was unfolding beyond a rocky headland, so I was capturing the effects of the sun rising without disclosing their cause (see my Event horizon for details about the location and the situation).
The sun was still low above the horizon, just beyond the rocks in the foreground. The rocks themselves were quite beautiful - Maresme granite rock - but their solid beauty stood like a barrier to my knowledge. I could directly perceive the rocks - although perception of a thing is not quite the real thing - and only indirectly perceive the bright truth of the rising sun. We cannot see the naked truth, only glimpses of her pure beauty cloaked in the veils of our perception and understanding. This might be a necessity, since her sheer beauty might blind and stun our minds and burn us just like the unfortunate moth coming too near to a flame. In the same vein, astrophysicists have decreed that we will never be able to see the actual singularity at the heart of a black hole (the "naked singularity") due to some kind of "cosmic censorship". And we cannot even know the material world we live into (and are part of) just as it is, but only through the glasses of our brains - everything being filtered, selected, processed by our brains. What we think is the world is the result of an extremely complex, constantly evolving cooking recipe applied by our brains and processed by our minds. So we are apparently hopeless when it comes to objective knowledge. But when I see the glaring song of the rising sun behind a rock and the beautiful, infinite shades of the sunrise spreading through the sky I know that our quest for truth is not doomed: just beyond the veils - beyond our impressions and words, beyond our senses and thoughts - there it is the Beauty of all beauties, and we can somehow grasp that precious glimpse and take it into us to nourish our longing and soothe our sufferings.

Sorry, my friends, I am still off and quite low - exhausted, I would say - I have uploaded this image just as an attempt to do something good for myself and for other people...

This is another shot from my 2015 Catalan archives - I have been rather surprised at rediscovering a series of shots I have completely overlooked, so I am exploring this half-forgotten mine - it may not be a goldmine, but it looks worthy of some attention.

This shot is the result of the blending of an exposure bracketing by luminosity masks with the Gimp.

Taken in: España / Catalunya / Calella (show map)

Taken on: October 20, 2016

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