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Clouds by Rail

July 31, 2017 Maria Mudd Ruth
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En route by train from Bellingham, WA to Olympia not long ago, I spent the entire four hour trip in the window seat looking out the window and taking photos of the scenery and clouds and bridges along Puget Sound as we headed south. 

At first I was dismayed by the window--scratched or abraded so badly that all my photos looked fuzzy.. But after looking at the results, I loved the strange opaque quality of the photographs. They look more like old-fashioned silver prints or Daguerrotypes. And the clouds look like something out of dream. 

In Clouds Tags A Sideways Look at Clouds, Maria Mudd Ruth, photographs of clouds, Amtrak scenery, Amtrak Cascades
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