The Half-Forgotten Moment

The Half-Forgotten Moment (from the series: The Secret Life of Clouds)

It’s not a trick of the light or of the camera. It’s a trick of the software, which makes it so easy to push part of an image into a blur and yet keep other parts in focus. And, to be honest, can clouds ever be in focus? Do they really have edges or boundaries that are as distinct as our own? And what else is there to do but add a vague blur to a photograph, which has become anonymous, because you cannot remember exactly when or where you let the shutters open?

It may have been above the skies somewhere south of France that I took this shot, but really I am not sure. If the moment is half-forgotten, then the photograph too should be half-forgotten.