Josef Sudek suffered a gruesome injury in World War I — as a result he lost his right arm, yet finished a strong career in photography working to an advanced age, using a cumbersome large format camera to the end of his life. I am thinking of a series Mr. Sudek created looking out from his studio in Czechoslovakia. Most are still life arrangements including flowers, fruit and household objects set out beautifully on a windowsill.  Some of his images show views of his garden under different kinds of weather.

I recently shot the picture above through my own studio window. After editing and printing it, and looking at it for a while, I thought inevitably of Sudek.