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With a forecast for clear skies this weekend I couldn't resist a visit down to Dorset to try and capture the Milky Way.
I ended up at Portland Bill next to the lighthouse capturing this shot of the Pulpit Rock.
Pulpit Rock was intentionally left as a quarrying relic and was formed with religious associations; the large slab of rock leaning against the main stack depicted an open bible leaning on a pulpit. At the time of its creation, Portland had gained an influx of a variety of religious groups and active places of worship following the transformation of Portland Roads into a harbour of refuge. The related government works, such as the fortifications built to defend the harbour, along with the Royal Navy's increasing presence at Portland, resulted in large increases to the island's population.
Back to Trout Lake and an early morning frost on the Sunshine Coast. The weather called for a touch of snow on this day, which led to plenty of interesting candy coated trees. My thought on this shot was to use the red frost covered trees, to imitate a shadow, to the white frost covered trees. In turn, that would help give the illusion of dimension.
When I saw the ducks land and begin to swim, they turned and angled straight for my shot, as if it were planned. Perhaps it is true when they say, "luck favours the prepared".
Weather forecast for today - 50 shades of grey
Walk in the morning mist - Nikon D800 24-70mm
Near Grosbous Luxembourg
This snowy owl is making his way to the far north. On this day he has to put up with a light snow flurry on a very blustery day. Not much of a challenge to a bird built to withstand nasty cold weather. This species is the heaviest Canadian owl but the Great Grey is the biggest based on length. There is also a bit of contention around its Latin name, thanks to genetic testing. You can read a bit about it on the internet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_owl.
Sunset at Steetley Pier. The forecast was rain but we took a chance and gave it a go. Think we got lucky no rain just some lovely colours and cloud.
The forecast was for clear skies so Damien and I made tracks for Kiama in a bid to try and capture the milky way over this very photogenic rock.
Things were starting to look a little uncertain with clouds rolling in just after sunset but we pushed on and thankfully it paid off. We arrived at Kiama a little after 11pm to a completely clear sky and one amazing milky way.
The original plan was to stay on location until 1:50am for some foreground illumination from a rising moon but to our surprise the foreground and the rock itself seemed to have enough ambient light to balance out.
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Forecast looked good so we decided to try Steetley. On the way the weather app changed and the forecast didn't look so great.
After a fair amount of deliberating if we should try Flamborough or Scarborough we finally decided to stick with the original plan.
What a fantastic place. It will be a sad loss to this coastline once it's gone. The cemetery above the beach has to be the creepiest graveyard I've ever seen!
Looks like the next weekend will present us some frosty days, some sunshine would be welcome. Obernbeck,Ostwestfalen, Germany
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Weather forecast on a knife blade. On a Damascus steel knife blade, to be precise. Not what I initially had in mind, but that so often is the case when it's one of the "MM themes of the 1000 possibilities". Usually, for such a wide theme, I only have a few vague ideas what I could do for it, and the end result is pretty much a random surprise of what looks, firstly, most interesting through the macro lens, and, secondly, best as a photo, of course. Also, what is easy when it's not asked for - such as finding interesting patterns - becomes nearly impossible when it's required: patterns positively seemed to escape me as I went looking for them around the apartment ;-) And when I saw the knife in the kitchen (I hadn't even considered it as a possibility) I just thought "OK, that's probably very boring, but I'll give it a try." As for the "macro lens surprise", that was that not only did the banding typical for Damascus steel looked like waves (often an intended effect, but I only learned about that when I did my research on Damascus steel for the description and the tags), but those scratches from sharpening the knife that you can see in the upper part of the image also looked like heavy rain. And here it was, unfolding before my eyes: the high seas tempest.
The setup for the photo was as simple as it gets: I simply propped the knife, sharp side of the blade up, against a jar of sugar (my photo studio also doubles as breakfast and dinner table), both of it sitting on top of a heavy book to give it the same height as my camera on its small table top tripod, positioned one LED lamp (warm light) at the side of the table and grabbed my LED torch (cold light) to illuminate the blade from above (which also added the ever so slight 3D effect on the upper part of the blade), enabled the in-camera focus-stacking function, and hit the shutter button. I shot three focus stacking sequences of different parts of the knife of which this looked best.
Processing steps: The cold / warm light effect is something I get quite often when I use different light sources as above mentioned. It even works with one artificial light source (provided it gives warm light) and daylight from the window. Here I liked the split tone effect very much because I think it adds more depth to image. I wish I could have achieved the vivid colours you see here entirely by the use of light and the use of a colour filter (warm-cold or a combination of a cooling and a warming filter), but I've only recently considered to buy a few photo filters to improve my landscape photography, and since a good filter is expensive, I think I will buy one or two more versatile filters first before checking out the more exotic colour filters. So the colour enhancement here was done in Lightroom, where I tweaked the saturation and luminance of the blue, yellow and orange tones, and then in Nik's Color Efex, where, as final touch, I applied a Bi-color filter. I hope that these processing steps are deemed OK according to the new MM rules regarding the editing of an MM shot. I also did some sharpening and de-noising in Topaz Sharpen AI ("Focus" yielded the best result).
HMM, Everyone, and have a beautiful and safe week ahead!
At a recent campsite, morning light started around the corner and we had to wait our turn for any warmth of the sun to reach us. Until then, everything was wet with dew, which usually means a good forecast for the day to come: "When the dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass; When grass is dry at morning light, look for rain before the night."
I was itching to go out and shoot as I was off from work - all my weather apps and local weather said zero clouds at sunset. Two hours prior, I spotted some light clouds and headed out.
Weather apps & reports are great as an aid, but nothing replaces direct observation.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
No comments today – just enjoy :-)
Was forecast 100% cloud this morning so nearly stayed in bed, but seeing i was off work i took a chance and hey presto breaks in the cloud and plenty of them
Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” George Box
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Yesterday (6 march 2021) My photo could be seen on the RTL4 news channel weather forecast ;-)
see first photo in the comments
Assessing frost and freeze damage
On my way home (after a highly recommended haircut due to Covid limitations) I encountered this spectacular phenomenon; frost damage protection by sprinkling water over the fresh young new buds.
Have a good weekend ;-)
Another Winter in New England that, while mild over all, just won't let go. Snow in the forecast for tomorrow and sub-zero temps and "significant snow" in the forecast for the next week, as well. The gardens are happy for snow but the humans are ready for Spring.
Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) in the warm, sunset light.
After checking out the weather forecast the night before, and using PhotoPills to determine where the sun would be rising, I trekked to the beach in Oshawa well before sunrise, and positioned my tripod awaiting the sunrise.
It wasn't long before many of the friendly passersby started chatting. "Good morning!", "What ya' shooting?", "Great weather for photography!", etc. Eventually I got chatting with a couple of local characters who told me their engaging life stories.
Did I miss my intended shot? You betcha! So I settled for this one instead which kind of represented my thoughts for the morning.
Those short, engaging conversations left an indelible mark...
As Annie said, " The sun will come up tomorrow!"
the forecast, live like it's spring.” ~ Lilly Pulitzer
Enjoying the balmy & like spring weather in my town!
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The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years. There are currently four broadcasts per day at the following (UK local) times: 00:48, 05:20, 12:01, and 17:54.
The Shipping Forecast began life, on 24 August 1867, and was originally a series of telegraph messages sent to harbour towns to warn of impending storms. There had been some efforts to predict and warn about incoming weather via scientific means before this – pioneered by Robert FitzRoy following a catastrophic storm in 1859 that killed 800 mariners off the coast of Wales.
Sadly, FitzRoy didn’t live to see his ideas become a permanent fixture of British life: he killed himself in 1865, in part because of his frustration at failing to set up a regular service.
Today shipping forecasts are common all over the world.
The weather forecast all week had pointed to a good weekend, so my son & I planned a (long) daytrip to the Trossachs.
Our plan was to walk the Meall nan Tarmachan ridge: a circular route taking in the Munro of Meall nan Tarmachan.
But as can be seen from the shot (& the title), the weather didn't quite work out as we had hoped, with the cloud level stubbornly sticking around the 500-600m level. Thus we curtailed the plan to a sometimes soggy there and back up Meall nan Tarmachan (see shot in comments for 'visibility at the summit!).
If you want to see what we missed, please take a look at www.walkhighlands.co.uk/perthshire/meall-nan-tarmachan.shtml