Trail of Smoke Across Hazy Blue Sky, Poignant 1969 Kodak Snapshot greenland Craquelure

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Trail of Smoke Across Hazy Blue Sky, Poignant 1969 Kodak Snapshot greenland CraquelureThe date at the bottom of this color Kodak print is Feb 69, with its presence I think enhancing the poignance of what already feels like a pretty poignant photo. A launch and trail of white smoke vertically across a blue sky, which I find hard to look at without imagining a crash. Of a period filled with hope and despair, optimism about the future and unthinkable losses. Blue above but red on the horizon. And looks a bit like a bolt of lightening at