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Feb 23, 2010 3:31:38 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2010 3:31:38 GMT
I totally reject your raw eggs assessment. Cristina, I guess the terrain determines the skies above it to a degree, and from what little I know about Phoenix, it's also arid, high, and mountainous, isn't it? Oaxaca is a high, very wide valley.
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Feb 23, 2010 3:55:57 GMT
Post by cristina on Feb 23, 2010 3:55:57 GMT
Cristina, I guess the terrain determines the skies above it to a degree, and from what little I know about Phoenix, it's also arid, high, and mountainous, isn't it? Oaxaca is a high, very wide valley. Bixa, we are a wide, arid valley, but at sea level (more or less). I have to confess that after living here for almost 15 years, I still don't understand why our sunsets, for example, are like nothing I ever saw on the East Coast. I do know that during the winter months, the valley tends to hold in pollution and that this same pollution can create some of the color. But I also think that the red rock in the mountains contributes as well. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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Feb 23, 2010 4:15:39 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2010 4:15:39 GMT
I remember the first time I heard that it was pollution that caused the beautiful colors of the sunsets, and I instantly discounted that idea. What about the centuries of poetry praising the sunset and "rosy-fingered dawn", for that matter?
It's true that I don't remember ever seeing this sunset drama anywhere else I ever lived. (but we ain't got no red rocks!)
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Feb 23, 2010 16:58:29 GMT
Post by Kimby on Feb 23, 2010 16:58:29 GMT
I remember the first time I heard that it was pollution that caused the beautiful colors of the sunsets, and I instantly discounted that idea. What about the centuries of poetry praising the sunset and "rosy-fingered dawn", for that matter? Red skies at night, sailors' delight, red skies in morning, sailors take warning.Pollution can be dust as well as man-made pollutants. When a stagnant (dusty, polluted) air mass causes a spectacular sunset, it means that a high-pressure zone is to your west, meaning clear sailing the next day. However, when the sunrise is spectacular, the high-pressure air mass has passed over you, and unsettled weather is likely to follow. The redder the sunrise, the worse the coming weather, due to presence of water vapor in the dusty "polluted" air mass. see www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/weather-sailor.html
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Mar 3, 2010 22:35:06 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 22:35:06 GMT
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Mar 4, 2010 22:00:31 GMT
Post by rikita on Mar 4, 2010 22:00:31 GMT
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Mar 4, 2010 22:03:12 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2010 22:03:12 GMT
Oh, wow, rikita, I am never posting one of my crappy cloud photos ever again.
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Mar 4, 2010 22:38:15 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 4, 2010 22:38:15 GMT
Don't say that, Kerouac! I am a pig for not having commented already on your really excellent photo above. That sort of cross-hatched sky as a background for the twiggy branches is as lush and satisfying as the embroidered design on a kimono.
Uh, you can never post too many of your photos, Rikita! Woweee on that bunch, too. I don't want to pick favorites, but have to say I'm blown away by the second one, with all the contrasts -- the geometric lines, the rolling terrain mimicking the roiling sky, and that cut-out effect at the horizon -- whoa!
I totally love how clouds seem to mirror and marry the mountains, and you've caught that brilliantly. And that last picture? A master Chinese watercolorist would weep in chagrin to see it.
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Mar 5, 2010 0:17:04 GMT
Post by rikita on Mar 5, 2010 0:17:04 GMT
i like your pictures kerouac! you should post more!
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Mar 5, 2010 21:55:10 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2010 21:55:10 GMT
Okay. Crossing the Champs Elysées at lunchtime today, I liked the clouds I saw above the Arc de Triomphe. And I also liked the clouds I saw while crossing the railroad tracks on my way to the nursing home. I wanted a clear shot of these clouds above the église Saint Bernard, but there was no way to get away from the trees. I figured I might as well take the picture because the trees are still barren, and such photos will not be possible once the leaves have returned.
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Mar 8, 2010 0:10:54 GMT
Post by rikita on Mar 8, 2010 0:10:54 GMT
very nice. the composition of the first one is interesting, and the dark outlines of the buildings against the sky are nice in the other two.
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Mar 8, 2010 2:04:59 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2010 2:04:59 GMT
I love the first one. It is beautifully composed and looks 3-D. I really like all the verticals in the 3rd one, with nature, tall buildings and church spires all reaching for the clouds.
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Mar 8, 2010 2:09:18 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2010 2:09:18 GMT
This was the other evening, as the full moon was rising ~
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Mar 29, 2010 22:08:19 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2010 22:08:19 GMT
After seeing Rikita's clouds, I swore I'd never post a cloud picture in here again but, enough time has passed that I'm over it. I love this thread too much to see it get buried.
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Mar 30, 2010 9:22:45 GMT
Post by Kimby on Mar 30, 2010 9:22:45 GMT
I have the nicest mental pictures of clouds from our recent trip to the Big Sky part of Montana, east of the (continental) divide, on our way home from Big Sky ski area.
I was at the wheel and the camera was buried in luggage in the back, but the clouds and lighting were so dramatic over the mountains. I wish I had photos to post here...
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Apr 1, 2010 18:56:18 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 18:56:18 GMT
Next time, you'll be ready, Kimby.
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Apr 2, 2010 16:05:36 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 16:05:36 GMT
I've realized that the reason I don't often have photos to share is that I don't WALK enough! Living "out in the country" I'm always behind the wheel. So the past couple days I have made the effort to spend a couple hours on foot in my fair city with my camera. Coincidentally, they have been great days for CLOUDS: Day before yesterday was spitting snow all day (these two were taken through the windshield): Yesterday was a glorious day, with sunshine mixed with clouds: (This is the view on my drive home from town.)
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Apr 2, 2010 17:01:05 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 2, 2010 17:01:05 GMT
So beautiful! Are the veils of precipitation and the dark undersides of the clouds all from snow?
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Apr 2, 2010 17:37:11 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 17:37:11 GMT
I like the first two photos, Kimby, which remind me of a horror movie called "The Crawling Eye." As I recall, it was some sort of tentacled horror that attacked a mountaintop observatory or something, when those clouds settled over the peak. (I think my brother and I missed most of it because we were trying to stick our heads behind our mother's back on the sofa -- it was the New Orleans Saturday late show with Morgus the Magnificent.)
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Apr 2, 2010 18:25:49 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 18:25:49 GMT
So beautiful! Are the veils of precipitation and the dark undersides of the clouds all from snow? Yes, it was snowing, though not where I was standing. One of the advantages of being in "Big Sky Country" - you can watch weather without experiencing it on your person!
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Apr 7, 2010 12:46:15 GMT
Post by imec on Apr 7, 2010 12:46:15 GMT
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Apr 7, 2010 15:23:18 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2010 15:23:18 GMT
Hope it's okay to just burble here ..... obviously these are wonderful pictures of clouds, but what really makes them is that they are great photographs.
That last one demonstrates what an eye you have for good pictures, and the second one of the group is fantastic. Frame it!
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Apr 7, 2010 16:45:06 GMT
Post by imec on Apr 7, 2010 16:45:06 GMT
Thanks! (and if anyone's interested, I didn't "mess" with them - didn't have time)
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Apr 7, 2010 16:51:10 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 16:51:10 GMT
Wonderful photos and I'm glad you finally cleaned that styrofoam out of the river!
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Apr 7, 2010 16:58:03 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 16:58:03 GMT
Great photos as always, imec. Is that the red river we see? The ice has melted away so fast.
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Apr 7, 2010 16:58:16 GMT
Post by imec on Apr 7, 2010 16:58:16 GMT
Thank you. Yes the white stuff has moved on. There was an unusual occurrence last weekend however - a big wind pushed the ice from the middle of lake Winnipeg onto the yards of lakeshore cottages.
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Apr 7, 2010 17:02:03 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 17:02:03 GMT
It's unusual weather all around it seems. Last year the St. John river flooded and the water got into the Fredericton library and other government buildings situated in beautiful tree lined Queen Street. Quite the mess. And the water is rising again as we speak...
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Apr 7, 2010 17:11:42 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2010 17:11:42 GMT
a big wind pushed the ice from the middle of lake Winnipeg onto the yards of lakeshore cottages. Gosh -- was that in the middle of the skinny part of Lake Winnipeg? Apparently shallow lakes like that can get really choppy because of their shallowness.
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Apr 7, 2010 17:13:06 GMT
Post by spindrift on Apr 7, 2010 17:13:06 GMT
Lovely pics Imec....we don't get clouds like those in england.
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Apr 8, 2010 18:44:52 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2010 18:44:52 GMT
Yesterday evening. We got a little rain from these.
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