As I drove home earlier in the week I noticed a great rent in the clouds opening up as if someone had taken a knife to the sky.
\nThere was of course nowhere safe to stop atop the Port River expressway bridge and I’m sure it would not have been legal regardless.<\/p>\n
I nearly drove on being happy to just take in the sight when a little way on inspiration took me and I found a place to pull over. Crossing the four lanes of high speed merging traffic was a little nerve racking and when I did get to the safety of the medium I was a little shaken. Note to self: cars travelling a high speed appear from nowhere and without warning!<\/p>\n
The walk back and up to the crest of the bridge between the two opposing flows of traffic was fortunately uneventful and I got to stand admiring that ripped canvas peacefully oblivious to the cars and trucks all around me.<\/p>\n
I stayed awhile up there as the sun disappeared and that ripped canvas tore slowly apart like some giant zipper revealing a clear blue grey sky beyond.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘A Rip in the Canvas’, 1\/320s f5.6 ISO200 100mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I drove home earlier in the week I noticed a great rent in the clouds opening up as if someone had taken a knife to the sky. There was of course nowhere safe to stop atop the Port River expressway bridge and I’m sure it would not have been legal regardless. I nearly drove […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2230,194,928,71,2232,2233,2231,72,2234],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cavan","tag-clouds","tag-industrial","tag-landscape","tag-powerlines","tag-ripped","tag-saltpans","tag-sunset","tag-wasteland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}