Before We Explain the World

Photography by Lu Heng

5The Scale of Time

Earth and Weather

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Steam rises from the ground, ice covers water, heavy clouds hang above fields. These landscapes may seem still, yet something is happening within them. Look for the small signs of change.

  1. White steam rises above a grey pool in a pale rocky hollow surrounded by green forest.
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    Steam among the trees

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  2. Steam rises from a blue geothermal pool as orange light spreads across the horizon.
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    Steam and orange light

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  1. An aerial view of fragmented land and water, with pale patches around the sun’s reflection.
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    Light across broken water

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  1. Red, yellow and grey-blue clouds stretch across the sky above dark fields.
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    Colour above the fields

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  2. Bright sunlight breaks between thick, dark bands of cloud.
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    Between banks of cloud

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  1. Dark cloud bands cross a yellow sky above a silhouetted ridge.
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    Golden light through clouds

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  2. Sunlight breaks through scattered clouds above harbour water and dark rooftops.
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    Sunlight above a harbour

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  1. A dark tree line separates an orange horizon from a deep blue sky.
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    Trees beneath an orange and blue sky

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  2. Faint tracks cross a hazy plain beneath a pale gold sky.
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    A hazy plain in warm light

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  3. A broad fan of mottled clouds spreads over a shadowed plain.
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    A fan of clouds above the land

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