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Snow on the way so here is a timely warning from your friendly weather forecaster.... I am way behind but hope to catch up. There is always 'stuff' to be done isn't there..Sue :)
Snake's Head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) at Smith's Spring Blub Show a couple of years ago. Sometimes called "Checkered Lily" or "Chess Flower." A common and often naturalized member of the lily family with the most beautiful checkered patterns in burgundy or white.
Well below freezing here today and a new Nor'easter is headed this way with another foot of snow forecast. Thank goodness for warm, steamy conservatories and Spring bulb shows - they keep the Winter madness at bay! :)
The forecast was one for warm sunny conditions so I headed out for the Lincolnshire Wolds, essentially just for a walk but with the camera along for the ride. I set off well after sunrise and was surprised to find patches of mist as I approached Market Rasen, so I diverted to Linwood Common, which is essentially a large opening in the woods, but a favourite of mine, and an area where I know the mist lingers. I lucked out.
This scene holds some raw power, for me. Particularly in reflecting a lost opportunity I had to gain insight into a very different understanding of the world (an Amish perspective). I try to stay away from regret, as I think it rarely serves much good… and I generally try not to do anything I would regret. But I do try to support the notion that something I would regret can otherwise be valued as a learning experience. In this case: a lesson in a missed chance. Blogged if you want clarity to this story.
In this shot, there are some strange tones in the sky, and I believe this had to do with the window reflection of the train.
Sycamore Gap
I took a wander along to the Sycamore tree on Hadrian's Wall this morning after the forecast of a cold start to the day....it wasn't that cold.
Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
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The forecast was for clear skies for several days leading into the weekend and the 2nd night found three of us heading up to the Loup of Fintry waterfall in The Campsies. Passing through Fintry in the dark after 10pm a hare strayed onto the road in front of the car and then turned and bounded along the road in front of us for about 500m before finally realising it could pull off into a driveway. Further on a tawny owl perched on a fence post at the roadside. As we did the brief walk from the car to the falls the grass and the bushes were caked in a heavy, white frost which glistened extravagantly in the light of our head torches. The falls made a pleasing, substantial roar in the darkness. It was a cold but pleasant spot to hang out for an hour taking photos and chat. Although right in the middle of The Campsies these falls are only about 15miles from Glasgow whose light pollution brightens the sky in the left of the frame.
We were at Mimmo, watching floating flower seeds, I was only able to capture one of those properly but luckily it was in the correct place at the time lol
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The forecast was for big/ powerful seas and a rising tide plus cloud but no rain. Well there was a lot of rain and fog driving there from Sydney but it didn’t rain there. The swell was not as big as hoped but still got some nice happy snaps :-)
The POV doesn't show a bunch of first-timers to Bombo who were very close to middle left of the frame. If a bigger set came through they could have been in serious trouble. This shot was zoomed in with my wide angle lens to exclude them as I was somewhat protected by a rock wall.
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Last week I made a late night driver over to Death Valley in hopes of catching a windy sunrise. Both Skyfire and Sunsetwx were forecasting good conditions and the NWS was forecasting gusts upwards of 25 mph. I had been trying to get back out to the dunes with some high winds for about two years now, and this seemed like a good opportunity. Unfortunately, when I arrived, it was dead calm and even though I came home with some shots, they weren't really the shots I was after.
What I really wanted was sand. Tons and tons of sand blowing off of the dunes in all directions being lit from behind by the setting sun. Since last weekend was a fail, I headed back out on Saturday as another storm was forecasted to roll through the area. I met up with my buddy Eric and we shot the dunes that morning before heading back to Lone Pine for breakfast and some wifi. After shooting the Eastern Sierras that afternoon, I arrived back at the dunes at 6:30. As I got out of the car, my heart sank. The 47 mph wind gusts seemed to be gone...at least where I parked my car. And it was HOT. I began walking, cursing the NWS under my breath and trudged my way back out to the dunes. I had only gone a half mile or so before the wind began to pick up.
By the time I reached the ridge of one of the taller dunes, I could barely stand upright. Sand was now definitely flying in all directions! The wind was too strong for my tripod, so I handheld both cameras and kept shooting even though I could barely keep my eyes open in the sand storm. It wasn't long before the sun came out from behind some clouds and lit up the sand billowing up in the distance. It was a solid four hour drive home, but I was definitely smiling as I headed back.
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It was overcast and the forecast called for a chance of showers. I didn't think I would be able to get in a photowalk, so I went to the Y for some exercise. When I got out a large, unforecast storm was approaching. I photographed the action from a school across from the park, so I would quickly be able to get in the car and escape when the rain started. Ultimately this storm dropped 3 inches of rain in just a couple of hours, causing some local flooding.
The forecast for yesterday was sunshine and cloud. However they neglected to say the sunshine had been cancelled and the light was somewhat wanting. But beggars can't be choosers so in the immortal words of the late Ernie Wise, here is one wot I took. One slip could be very painful!
Last light on the Georgian Bay predicts some good dawn light tomorrow, a la "red sky at night, sailors' delight". No weather app needed here.
The mountain weather forecasters played a blinder on this day, forecasting there could be an inversion around the higher hills of North Wales,. That was despite there being high winds, normally I have only experienced inversions when the conditions were still. So I set off early, climbing up the slopes of Moel Siabod through cold, dense fog that was being blown around quite a lot, so not exactly pleasant walking conditions. It was only when I got quite close to the summit that the predictions proved correct and fleetingly I walk out through the top of the cloud. It was a real treat to see the cloud blowing around below me, swirling around in the stiff breeze. This was the sight at the summit Trig point, looking south east across a boiling sea of cloud.
This year we have hardly had a morning where the sun has broken from the cloud! However two weeks ago the forecast looked okay so 5am start to get to this spot. I know on a tranquil windless day it can work well and this morning thankfully it was indeed.
Just after the sun cleared the trees a flock of birds passed by over the over so i shot this. I used an 0.3 ND grad and also a sunset filter on the camera to warm the colours a little but didnt need to do any editting (I'm getting lazy in my latter days!)
The forecast wasn't very good so just went for the stroll on the downs above Blewbury, but just to show you never know I was treated to some lovely light for about a minute.
just when you decide to just lie in bed & watch the aurora instead of photographing, they get so crazy-bright, you just can’t resist (despite a forecast of none at all!)
these two were taken about 3 minutes apart, and in between was the brightest shooting star i’ve EVER seen -- a blue-white flash almost like lightning, followed by a long bright arc as it fell. what a celebratory sky for my Dad’s birthday!!
Forecasts got it all wrong again and Scotland did not live up to expectations for my week on the UHD. This location at Symington was definitely on my hit list but I hadn't realised that the train runs half an hour earlier on a Monday plus it was ten minutes early when taken, so the sun angle was not optimal. Typically, the train passed an hour later the following day, in the dull!
Looking great in its GBRf livery, 92043 ex'Debussy' and now named 'Andy Withers 50 Year Service’ passes at 05.28, with the 1S26 23.30 Euston to Glasgow Central. With still early morning air, this train could be heard for many miles before making an appearance. 24/6/2024
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical Sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is orientated towards the sunrise on the summer solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds). Archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. [Wikipedia].
A blustery day (gusts of 40mph, according to the forecast), but sunny with cloud. TPE (The Photographers Ephemeris) showed good side lighting in the mid-morning, which was ideal for the shot I had planned from the day before (which was cloudy and wet).
(Explored April 10, 2022)
Looks like we have some cold and sunny winter days ahead. Certainly better than the dark and rainy weather of the last months. River Werre in Bad Oeynhausen, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Definitely best viewed large!
Egypt seems exotic enough to me - until now I’d only travelled outside Europe just once in my life. But then there’s Saudi Arabia, just a handful of miles across the Straits of Tiran. It seems like another world entirely, a mirage at the horizon, cloaked in mysterious secrets. In the blinding white sky of the hours around lunchtime, only Tiran Island is visible, but as the afternoon marches on, the Saudi coastline slowly reveals itself, bold yellow dunes backed by the faintest silhouettes of imposing looking mountain ranges. The straits are a regular highway for a sequence of container ships, lying low in the water as they transport their cargoes along the Gulf of Aqaba. At the northern end of this easterly pincer arm of the Red Sea lie three ports, separated by just a handful of miles, yet they’re in three separate nations that sit uncomfortably alongside one another. Taba in Egypt, Eilat in Israel, and Aqaba in Jordan. Travelling south, those freighters are heading around the bottom of the peninsula, making for the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean and beyond, or maybe down through the Gulf of Aden, past the Horn of Africa, with Yemen on one side and Somalia on the other. Rather them than me. Not everyone in this part of the world is quite as pleased to see us as our Egyptian hosts. Too much of the world is run by angry old men controlling younger men who could do with stopping and thinking who they’re supposed to be angry at. Somebody needs to make them stop. Even here on the beach, security guards stationed by every hotel watch the coast, night and day, keeping their eyes peeled for troublemakers. Thankfully it’s been peaceful in Sharm el-Sheikh for a while now. I hope it stays that way. The people who live here and look after us sunbed lounging westerners for a week or two are so gentle and welcoming. Full of human warmth. I’ve never experienced service quite like it.
It was the last full day of our time in Sharm el-Sheikh, and this was my fourth sunrise visit to exactly the same spot, just a five minute walk from the apartment. The forecast had proved to be accurate - not a cloud in sight - just a soft band of orange lighting up those Arabian mountain peaks across the water. On the other three early pilgrimages, they hadn’t been visible at all, thanks to the hazy clouds on the horizon. But today, they appeared, soft and warm, clustered in groups, rising from the sea to heights that were impossible to measure with the human eye. As I watched, an empty ship headed north, rapidly approaching the scene in front of me. Just my luck. In the time it took to pass, the light would surely change and the chance to zoom into those enigmatic peaks would be gone. It needed a few moments to register in my slow witted morning brain that it might be an idea to include the ship. I ramped up the ISO and opened the aperture a little bit more. While holidaymakers overdose on the all inclusive in the hotels of Sharm el-Sheikh, the rudders of commerce grind their way along the gulf, on the last hundred odd miles of their voyage to those neighbouring ports.
For once I’d remembered to wear enough clothes to deter the resident mosquito population. Jeans, a long sleeved top and socks inside my shoes. My feet looked like a childrens’ “join the dots” colouring book after the first few days here - except for the fact that the dots were red rather than black. Ironic then that a stiff breeze was keeping the little airborne monsters quiet for a change. I pulled up one of the two plastic chairs for the last time and sat, watching the ever changing light. Each of these four mornings had been quite different from the last, and this was the only one to deliver a completely clear sky. The photographer’s curse. But then again, those Arabian lumps of land and the passing ship had given me something new as well.
Coming here each morning was fun, but at the same time all of the security measures meant it was quite a restrictive kind of place for landscape photography. And while we enjoyed our stay, being waited on as if we were royalty isn’t something that left us feeling entirely comfortable at times. We’re used to doing our own thing, and travelling under our own steam. No hire cars here, and only very limited opportunities to point the camera at the landscape without drawing unwanted attention. Only during that memorable trip to Mount Sinai did I feel as if I was getting into my stride, and that lasted well under an hour. But it was still a very rewarding experience, and gazing across the water into this mythical Arabian landscape was something I hadn’t really expected. It’s a big world out there.
As a cloud inversion was forecasted, we made our way back to Messelstein viewpoint and were rewarded with the soft hills of the Albtrauf, north-western slope of the Swabian Alps, covered in fluffy clouds. I like the contrast between the dark, cool shadows in the foreground and the glowing hills, catching the first morning light.
December 2019 | Albtrauf
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Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
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Just a fun shot for today.
If i really need to see snow I can go shake this guy up a little :)
It is always snowing in his world!
No texture added, no Picnik just a little exposure adjustment :).
Itsss Tuesday.
The weather forecast was last week quite clear so I book marked the Friday to go out. I excpected a cold morning and was hoping for some frost in nature.
When I Unexpectedly woke up early I noticed a nice bit of snow has fallen in our region. So reschuled the plan I made and drove to the 'higher grounds' of the Veluwezoom. The journey towards this area didn't fully go as planned, a major traffic infarct due to lorries that crashed in the snow on the high way made me take a detour which cost me not 18 minutes drive but an 1 hour 38 minutes drive.
Nevertheless when you enjoy nature than taking this shot of course I forgot all the trouble.
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I would have liked a little frost and some snow, but the weather just turned grey, dark and wet again. It is forecasted to stay the same next week. In the middle of all this greyness, it is nice to remember the summer!
According to the weather forecast the skies were supposed to clear this afternoon! :-)
Anyway, having got as far as the fen I tried to make the most of the conditions and get some slightly different shots with the fen covered in a blanket of freezing fog.
The Short Eared Owls would appear magically from the murk and then disappear again just as quickly.
Dog Branch School Falls
Dog Branch School
Daniel Boone National Forest
Laurel County
Kentucky
Explore #29
After a long 3 month drought of not getting out in the wilderness I finally was able to enjoy some of the beauty of Kentucky a couple weekends ago! Heading out with good friend Adam Thompson we headed down to Laurel County to check out some arches and waterfalls! Rain was in the forecast and somehow the weatherpeople got things right. It nearly rained the whole day. I had no worries though, after not being out for so long I could care less and my soaking wet cloths showed it. Though we only visited one waterfall, we did end up documenting 25 arches. One arch location had 10 arches and 4 windows, what a geological wonder! Back to the waterfall though, it felt sooo good to spend some quality time with one! Dog Branch School Falls is always an old favorite to stop by, and it was looking great on this day in the fog and rain!
After a dull start the weather was forecast to improve later. There were two booked trains here, the Corby to Margam was cancelled which I expected. I wasn't going to bother for one train but decided to when seeing what was on 6V84. As I hoped this took a similar path to 6V92 meaning a better lit shot and a chance to get home sooner to prepare for my night shift.
Best wishes to Roger and Dean who were with me today.
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It's quite cold out this morning. The ground is frozen and the air is crisp! I took this out of the breezeway door. This was a very fleeting sunrise.
We had a severe weather warning in effect today. It created amazing clouds.
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The Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University, UK.
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The auditorium uses a cladding system inspired by the Newcastle-born mathematician Louis Fry Richardson whose pioneering work defined modern methods of weather forecasting. Fry Richardson’s work, which subdivided the planet into hexagonal zones, has been expressed in expanded aluminium mesh on the external elevations of the auditorium. A pattern has been created by the changing the orientation of the mesh, varying the opacity of the material.
It was 80 degrees here on Sunday, with a freeze forecast for Monday morning. I was trying to document our Camellias and was surprised to see bees buzzing about! With 20 mph winds, I'm surprised that I actually got a few shots!
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The Northlink ferry Hamnavoe running to schedule in-between the Storms. The weather forecast is not looking good for the next few days, right in time for the Xmas holidays!
The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset - The harbour for Lyme Regis is called the Cobb. No satisfactory explanation of the name exists but a man-made construction has served as a refuge here since at least 1313. The earliest known drawing, made in 1539, shows a basic shape similar to the present construction, and this was built after the westerly gales breached the breakwater in 1824. There have been additions since that date but the major part of the Cobb dates from then. It was connected to the mainland in 1756 and the North Wall was built in 1823. Ref. www.lymeregis.org
The Cobb was also made famous in the 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman starring Meryl Streep & Jeremy Irons
This is the first shoot following slight easing of Lockdown here in the UK. I had a half day's leave left to take before end of March and had The Cobb on my mind for a while to shoot. Forecast was for blue sky so wasn't expecting much for my lack of sleep but a few clouds around was a nice surprise. I was the only photographer there which was another bonus. Took a few other compositions I may post another time but it was great to be out again and to tick of one of my 'hit list' sites but the peace and tranquillity was the real bonus.
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