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This month's Supermoon is actually tomorrow but I was out last night shooting it through the clouds.
Playing with food again...found some wonderful textures from Texture Time and had to try them out on something.
check out her great work: www.flickr.com/photos/texturetime
Clouds crept in in view of one of our gardens. Lots to look at and to enjoy. Clouds darken the area momentarily and cast a shadow that doesnât last long either. Light sprinkles make way for reported heavy rains to come shortly. Away go the garden tools and plans to water flowers or wash my car. âBefore The Rainsâ the day had a different feel about it, which had consisted of work chores and now the feel is more about relaxing with hobbies. Who am I to complain though, lol. Stay safe and be kind. Off to wash handsđâa.
A brief glimpse of early morning sunlight over the estuary just before the rain set in. By midday it had filled almost to the fishing platform!
Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy!
Geese, Before Sunrise. Š Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
Migratory geese in pre-sunrise sky above the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada crest.
On these days photographing migratory birds I arrive in darkness thirty to forty-five minutes before dawn. After driving several hours in the dark, the first thing I do is get out of the car. The first impression I always have is the sound of the birds as they get ready for morning fly-out. It is a wild, raucous thing and it always makes me smile. Before long more and more of the birds take to the air as the first light arrives. The birds flying across this brilliant early morning sky are geese.
This photograph would not have been possible on most days photographing in Californiaâs Great Central Valley, and it depended on a particular conjunction of weather conditions. On the foggy days when I prefer to visit, of course, none of this would have been visible at all. On other clearer days the sky color is much more muted. On this visit a thin dome of clouds covered much of the sky, stretching far to the east beyond the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The first dawn light lit these clouds in a display of intense color.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, âCaliforniaâs Fall Color: A Photographerâs Guide to Autumn in the Sierraâ is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Jubilee Galatea with Sierra Leone number plate 45627 and nameplate but showing 45562 on the cabside arrives at Carlisle with the Railway Touring Company charter from Manchester with DRS 57308 in the sidings. Just before the crowds descended.
A former Chicago and North Western GP9 and SD18 sat at Wisconsin and Southern's Janesville yard in 2002.
The 912 was rebuilt with a short hood and worked the Wissor for years before heading west as Farmers Cooperative Company/FARX 912.
Up Laceyâs Creek way, back in late 2019 when it was getting drier and drier but before the real heat started. Laceyâs Creek is in a Valley north west of Brisbane beyond the town of Dayboroâ.
This is just a rural scene and we could say thereâs a fence in there of minimal standards, typical of the Aussie countryside, perhaps for Fence Friday as itâs nearly FF time.
In recent weeks some rain has arrived and well, today, it has been pouring most of the day and very widespread throughout out parched land. The drought is not over in many areas, some have received no rain but this will go a long way towards giving hope to townsfolk and farmers and graziers who have been in the teeth of this terrible dry.
Laceyâs Creek, SE Queensland.
For a number of years, I tried to grab a photo of these early flowers: crocuses (or croci). But I've missed the past few years due to weather and rabbits eating my daughter's patch. But I also have a small and less glorious patch, so I got out there this morning and snapped this photo in the early light before they opened for the day.
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From a morning by the beach, just before sunrise. Some wild flowers growing in the sand, with Heads of Ayr in the background.
the three amigos (-:
Spiranthes spiralis ( Herbst-Drehwurz ), Dorset
Same group as before
â¤ď¸ many thanks xx
A warning flag on a pitot tube of a De Havilland CV-2B Caribou in the collection of Addison, Texasâ Cavanaugh Flight Museum.
A female Great Horned owl perches on a Cottonwood tree before beginning her evening hunt. In north Walnut Creek, California.
A early morning view of Lake MacDonald and its pier before the crowds arrive. A heavily overcast sky made for difficult lighting but we do need to be challenged often to maintain growth. Glacier National Park.
anticrepuscular rays about 10 minutes before sunrise ( ie in the opposite direction of where the sun will rise) and suffused with pink as they lie within the Belt of Venus.
Info from Wikipedia:
"Anticrepuscular rays or antisolar rays are similar to crepuscular rays, but seen opposite the sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular rays are near-parallel, but appear to converge at the antisolar point( see explanation below) because of linear perspective. Anticrepuscular rays are most frequently visible near sunrise or sunset.
Crepuscular rays ( ones that appear to converge at the position of the sun) are usually much brighter than anticrepuscular rays. This is because for crepuscular rays, seen on the same side of the sky as the sun, the atmospheric light scattering making them visible is taking place at small angles.
Although anticrepuscular rays appear to converge onto a point opposite the sun, the convergence is actually an illusion. The rays are in fact (almost) parallel, and their apparent convergence is to the vanishing point at infinity.
The antisolar point is the imaginary point on the celestial sphere exactly opposite the Sun from the viewpoint of an observer. This means that the antisolar point lies above the horizon when the Sun is below it, and vice versa. On a sunny day, the antisolar point can be easily found: It is located at the shadow of one's head. The antisolar point does not have a fixed position in three dimensional space, but is defined in relation to the observer: Each observer has their own antisolar point, which moves along with them as they change position. The antisolar point forms the geometric center of several optical phenomena Eg Rainbows, crepuscular rays and anticrepuscular rays"
In the comment box below photos of crepuscular rays after sunset.
The clouds looked promising, and I went to watch well before sunrise time.
The sky lit up beautifully, and I looked forward to the appearance of the sun itself.
But before that happened a lowflying, fast moving, dark cloud drew a curtain over the whole sky, and the world turned grey again.
'before sunrise' On Black is better.