Turneresque

Today did not go to plan at all blipwise so I ended up going for another abstract. When I first showed this effort to my brother he said it reminded him of paintings by the artist JMW Turner (including one particular example which I will get to later) so I reacquainted myself with his oeuvre.
JMW Turner's landscapes are said to have a divine, surrealistic and symbolic quality. His paintings can be viewed as abstractions and an effort on his part to focus on the interplay between light and its surrounding atmosphere - almost seeming to leave subjects behind, presenting colour and impression in their full glorious element.
One such painting, and the one that my brother had been referring to, is Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Ralway (1844) in which water, land, sky and a man-made symbol of industrialisation come together in a tight frame. A hazy atmosphere caused by lashing rain over foggy clouds of steam spreading from the speeding train presented an intimidating scenario at the time. All the elements in the painting merge into one another - expect for the train that stands out like an iron beast in the yellow-blue-grey background.
Unfortunately I did not have any access to a speeding steam train for today's shot and anyway I had absolutely no idea of any tinily remote passing resemblance to this wonderful artist's work until my brother's intervention. 
What ended up looking like the glowing embers of a stream train chimney appearing through a cloud of acrid black smoke as the sun begins to set is actually the red cap of a maple syrup bottle and a sheet of translucent paper from an old magazine advertisement I found on the stairs at home combined with overhead light provided by the single bare bulb in our kitchen creating the yellow and orange luminance in the background! Next step the National Gallery! :-)