Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

A shepherd boy and his goats follow a trail along a cliff overhanging the Kunduz River. From this image on, we move into the area of Afghanistan north of the mountains, in antiquity called Oxiana or Bactria.

The top of the image comes well below the skyline. When light passes through air, the longer warmer, red-yellow wave lengths are filtered out and only the shorter wave length, colder, blue light passes through. This is why mountains look blue in the distance. Flemish painters of the Renaissance were particularly fond of accentuating this natural effect. They portrayed depth by making the foreground redder, the middleground areas predominantly gold into greens, and the distant vistas and the horizon blue.


The Young Shepherd

Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, January 1975