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As I created this today (1/31/16) the temperatures here are about 55ºF ---while normals at this time of year are way below freezing. So this is not the real forecast for today or tomorrow in my neck of the woods.
This image was created with a photo I took in December 2014, added a painterly look, and converted to B&W.
I added a blue color overlay and used a Photoshop action to create snowy conditions over it. In addition, I used a Graphic Stock texture of frost, which I manipulated to create the kind of image & colors I wanted.
Over the last few days, I've been looking at some of my art books which have been collecting dust. I have been using some of the basic compositions I've found there as starting points. My finished results look nothing like what has inspired me.
The image I used as a general starting point for this was an abstract xylography print by Fayga Ostrower. It was a vertical, non-representational, abstract using three colored sections from left to right with printed wood grain, small patterns, and a transparent, slanted, red rectangle over everything else on the right side.
The weather forecast looked good so I took a deep breath and drove the 6 hours to Lake Matheson (Fox Glacier) yesterday in an attempt to take a nice reflection shot of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook. This is the last of a pano of 3 portrait images. I was hoping that the sky would turn pink/purple as the sun was setting. Luckily, I was not disappointed.
20210126_1095_7D2-140 Aussie Outback Weather Forecaster
I was waiting for the string to curl as we had the hottest day here in about 20 years! 37°C
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Today was forecast to be the first 80°F day of the year and Mrs. Orca and I walked down to the neighborhood ponds to see what we could see before it got too hot. I gravitated to a wooded area, where I soon heard a faint rustling beneath the leaf litter. I decided it must be a shrew and I waited quite a while following the movement and rustling under the leaves in the hope that it would pop out, which it did briefly (above). As it turns out, after looking at a lot of missed shots that showed part of a claw or a tail, I've determined it is actually a shrew-mole.
Shrew moles are the smallest of the mole family, weighing under one gram at birth and around ten grams as adults. Unlike most moles they spend a fair amount of time above ground, often foraging just beneath the leaf litter for insects and their favorite food, earth worms. Though they are not actually shrews, they look and behave a lot like them, and this extends to their ravenous appetites. Because they are so small and lose a lot of energy in heat loss, they must eat up to twice their body weight per day in food. Because of their lifestyle, they are very rarely photographed living, but a search of Flickr turns up many photos of dead ones. American Shrewmole (Neurotrichus gibbsii), Olympia, WA.
I recently took a short summer break on a farm near Salisbury (Wiltshire, UK) and found myself surrounded by beautiful rolling fields. Unfortunately for me, I had arrived a little too late in the season to photograph the cornfields, which had already been harvested. After a short recce, I was able to identify several potential shots for the week ahead. All I had to do was hurry up and wait for the weather to improve.
After waiting patiently through several days of rain, I saw a change in the forecast and sunrise was looking good! As expected with a summer sunrise, it was an early start to the day. My camera was set up in position by 05:30 and, after a few compositional adjustments, I was ready to start shooting. I watched intently as the light increased and the colour began to erupt across the sky. The colour peaked twenty minutes before the sun broke the horizon as low cloud burned bright red against the blue-grey sky above. Result! Thanks for looking - Mk
After checking the weather forecast I see the summary for the last Saturday in August is "strong winds and rain". It's been overcast, chilly and rainy for most of this last week now and so, desperate for some sunshine, it looks like I'm going to have to stay with the holiday snaps from last month (which increasingly seems like a very long time ago.
Here's another view of one of my favourite subjects – St Michael's Mount looking just stunning as always, especially in the warm Cornish sunshine.
A fine day for dining on the deck.
Taken especially for the "Crazy Tuesday" theme of 8/2/2022: WHATEVER THE WEATHER.
VIEWERSHIP: 15% of 1,995 views on 8/2/2022.
FAVORABILITY: 45% of 40 faves on 8/2/2022.
Well, we survived the snowstorm that was forecast to dump massive amounts of snow and consequently paralyze the area around Grimsby, Ontario, not to mention the rest of the province. The reason we survived is that after the initial 5 cm (2 inches) fell, the snow turned to rain, covering us in slop. Not quite as advertised. I looked out the South bedroom window and saw the rain was freezing on the screen of the window, severely distorting the view outside but still providing some reflections of the interior. In addition a combination of mixed light sources and very low light levels meant I was shooting hand-held at maximum ISO. Not the best conditions. But adopting the approach that any image was better than no image, I captured a few frames and this was the best of the bunch. - JW
Date Taken: 2023-03-03
(c) Copyright 2023 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF Nikkor 18-35mm D 1:3.5-4.5 lense set to 28mm, ISO6400 (Auto ISO), Auto WB, spot metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.2, 1/125 sec with an EV-0.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px high,level the image, crop to a 5:7 aspect ratio to get rid of some dead space, apply Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compress at default levels to get a handle on the extreme tonal range, use Shadows/Highlights to recover a bit more in both highlight and shadow areas, slightly boost Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, apply significant noise reduction, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Levels tool in Auto mode to get a good base tonal range ans well as colour balance, reduce a residual cyan as well as green colour cast, apply noise reduction, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000 px high, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px high for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
We've had rain every day for weeks now, and it's really getting old. The forecast for the next 10 days? 50% or higher chance of rain every...single...day.
The weather forecast is clear so Greta and Max are taking a ride to the mountains to do some hiking. The autumn colors are at peak. They both love this time of year.
Doll: Mondrian Blythe
Car: Barbie - thrift store find
Dog: Liv
Sweater and shirt: Etsy
Hat: $0.50 from a recent doll show
Shorts: Barbie
Cooler: vintage
Pink bag: Blythe stock
Background: calendar image
Either I've been inspired by Richard Harvey UK and his $4 photo, or Jim Frazier's comments regarding dice in the discussions of the YCPTPH Group, so I've brought forward some things from the past, or future, into the present. Blame them! The teal die knows what I'm talking about.
We've all done it: tried to predict the future; forecast something — forecast (n) combining the Old English prefix fore- (meaning "before") with the verb cast (meaning "to plan, contrive, or throw"). We collect up what we know, form an opinion, maybe feed a digital model, and out pops something unexpected; like the raffle that determines Flickr Explode selections.
When I did those things more frequently, I always kept a dice in my drawer; in case of a blackout (power outage, whatever). It seemed to work just as well. It's the grubby white one in this image. The two little ones were my backups, handy if the model needed a run when I was out of the office, a kind of laptop version. The story of the teal coloured one is altogether less probable, more lucky and unpredictable. Maybe, one day…
Here's what we know. There are four dies or dice used in this exercise. Plagiarising Richard Harvey's lead, this picture is an in camera double exposure. The only processing was to straighten the lower left corners of the grubby white unit to the horizontal. Why? Because that's heaps easier that constructing a perfect setup.
I can also tell you this was taken, twice, or in two halves, with my camera mounted on a tripod, using LiveView, in aperture priority mode. The tripod head was set to swivel in the horizontal plane. In the multiple exposure setup, the exposure was set to average, and a count of two. Our scene was lit using a handheld 430 EXII Speedlite, off-camera, first obliquely on one side, then the other — that's why the grubby once white and black die is lit on the 6-face in one exposure, and the 2-face in the other. Thinking about it, that's a cheap and nasty technique to light two opposing faces of an object without illuminating the top; if your light is in that plane, not at roughly halfway to the vertical as I have it here. There's nothing fancy with the exposure — simple E-TTL and let it do the work. I rejected bounce flash. It made everything look the same; thoroughly flat.
There you have it, an unpredictable way to waste an afternoon, and to find out where I'd left some of my toys.
When the alarm went off at 4:30 AM a couple of weeks ago, I gritted my teeth and told myself, yet again, that a 95% burn forecast on Skyfire doesn't come along every day. I had also checked the satellite the night before and I knew there was a decent chance of some color down in Laguna, but I had been shut out PLENTY of times down there before. I can't begin to count the number of times over the past couple of years where I made the drive based on a Skyfire forecast only to show up and have the sun duck behind some clouds right at game time, or worse...have the clouds disappear altogether.
So when I groggily pulled up at Heisler Park at 5 AM, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was further unnerved by the fact that I was here on a Sunday morning and it looked like I was the only photographer who showed up. I started to set up my tripod, but one of the legs locked up and I had to improvise by hanging the stupid thing over a railing. Muttering to myself like a deranged homeless guy, I fought with the tripod and shivered as the wind had picked up substantially. "Bah!", I thought to myself. "I came all the way down here for what, exactly?"
And then I looked up. And smiled. The sky definitely began to glow early, and I really thought it was going to blow up in a big way. But just as the clouds really began to glow, the sun went behind another cloud beyond the horizon, and it looked like the show was over. Grimacing a bit, I folded up my broken tripod and headed back to the car, bummed that the sunrise fizzled out, but glad to be going home with at least a couple of shots. Just out of curiosity, I thought I should head up North a bit to Shaw's Cove to see what it looked like during high tide. Fisherman's Cove was out because most of it would be under water, but Shaw's should still work to get some scouting shots in, if nothing else.
I pulled my car around and muttered some more salty words at a scuba diver who stole my spot right in front of me, made a u turn....and my jaw hit the floor. While I had been finding a parking space, the sky had indeed blown up…in a huge way. I flew down the stairs to the Cove, ditching the broken tripod and began shooting like crazy. This was easily the most color I had ever seen in Laguna and the crimson red and fiery orange spilled out over the wet sand in all directions. And it just kept going! The reds eventually gave way to a brilliant golden glow giving me plenty of time to run up and down the beach and out onto the rocks. I think I clocked in around 600 shots by the time the sun went behind another cloud and I headed off, exhausted, to to Jack In The Box.
Kudos to Skyfire which knocked this one out of the park, This was a sunrise that I probably would have missed as I thought the cloud cover was going to be too deep. It was also a good reminder that every so often, those 4:30 AM wake up times actually pay off.
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Old faithful/standby Svitzer Intrepid moored off Gordon Promenade this morning; the BBC did forecast mist, good for them: also that it would soon clear. It broke, briefly, after I got back in but returned: cold and a bit dank after 2 days sun and spring like temperatures. Been spoiled !
Longstone and Norsky, daily visitors, just visible at Tilbury 2.
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In Birmingham tonight the weather said we could expect snow! I wouldn't mind it making one last return!!
Another one from Black Hawk Park.
Headed for yet another record day tomorrow. Forecast is for the mid 80's! That's nearly 30 degrees above normal!
The forecast had been for showers on and off all day, but we thought what the heck it won't stop us from going out.. Firstly we were blown off our feet whilst down at the coast and then nearly washed away as we drove through the Forest. These poor ponies were heads down against the hailstones trying to get to the shelter of the nearby trees.
I was thinking about getting up for a sunrise shoot this weekend, but there was a lot of rain in the forecast overnight on Friday, so I didn't really make much of a plan. I decided to set my alarm for 3:15am and check the weather and see if the storms had passed — it was looking promising in southern Maine, so I hit the road, heading for the Marginal Way in Ogunquit.
There was a large cloud bank on the horizon that was sure to kill any color, and I was feeling kind of dejected. But this last big raincloud was moving along and it looked like it might light up nicely from underneath. Unfortunately for me, it was really windy and said cloud was really hauling ass across the sky, forcing me to abandon my original (much better) composition. Moments later when the sun poked out from behind the cloud bank, that raincloud did light up nicely, so I had to make a quick decision about a different comp. And here we are.
Most of the time this was the typical weather while hiking through the high mountain plateau in Hadangervidda. The only exception here was that there was no heavy cold summer shower.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2020: our temperature after 7:00 pm is 12C (windchill 9C). It has been raining - again - all day. Tomorrow, 1 July, is Canada Day and there is snow forecast for the mountains. Sunrise is at 5:26 am and sunset is at 9:53 pm.
These five photos were taken on 25 June 2020, when I got together with five friends at the garden paradise where one of them lives. We each drove west of the city in our own vehicles, and social distancing was perfect. So much room outdoors, and lots of wildlife. Jackie does so much for the birds and animals that either live on her land or visit during migration. They know a good thing when they see it : ) Jackie had baked a delicious cake for us to enjoy, too. Thank you so much for inviting me, Jackie, and it was great to catch up with everyone!
I didn't wander round much at all, as it was such a special time to actually sit down with friends and talk. A little Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel was busy stuffing its cheeks with sunflower seeds near where we were sitting. They are such beautiful animals. Red Squirrels and a Least Chipmunk were doing the same thing.
Obviously, the information about Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrels below is now outdated, but still of interest. Just makes me feel even luckier than ever : ) I never saw them in South Glenmore Park, but have seen them a few times in Weaselhead and also south of Longview and in Waterton Lakes National Park.
"The Thirteen-lined or Striped Ground Squirrel, if it still exists here, may be the rarest mammal in the Calgary area today...... Calgary sightings: The only known location in Calgary where this species has been sighted is in South Glenmore Park, to the northwest of the park building. It was last reported on 28 April 2002 and 6 June 2002. A population occurs near Millarville (south of Calgary), where one was reported on 17 April 2005. " From the great talkaboutwildlife website, which no longer exists.
Jackie also has placed Bluebird and Tree Swallow nest boxes on her property. She has beautifully decorated some of the boxes with her paintings.
A Mule Deer visited while we were there, seeking water to drink. Jackie had mentioned that deer have been coming and drinking a huge amount of water.
From Jackie's place, I drove a bit further west to check out a few of my usual backroads. Not a lot to see - Brewer's Blackbirds, Mountain Bluebirds and a few other "regulars". However, I was treated to a beautiful Bobolink! As I was driving along, I spotted what looked rather like a Red-winged Blackbird way down the road. When I got nearer, I couldn't believe my eyes! It had obviously flown down the road from one of its more usual locations. It just sat there, and sang. Unfortunately, my photos were taken in harsh light and wind, so not the best. Will post a short video of it soon.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
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plenty more, I took too many..
Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow and so forecast an early Spring. The benches at the Smith Botanic Gardens beg to differ. :)
Perched high in a tree, a stiff breeze was ruffling this eagles feathers.
There's beginning to be quite a few eagles around the lake and banks of the river but not much action. I'm hoping that will change when the lake thaws. With 50;s and maybe 60's in the forecast, it won't be long.
Leaving home the morning forecast on BBC 1 was good for the north-west with rain spreading in later in the day. Well they got it wrong BIG TIME! Over the years Shap has seen some soakings and we've all been in some but today was the worst I have ever experienced. Sounding superb on the climb to the summit 45690 still made a fine sight even in these conditions. I was soaked to the skin when I got back to the car. Thankfully things improved later when we moved over to the coast.
Saturday 30th September 2017 Copyright Simon Lathlane
Bray to Greystones Cliff Walk, Ireland
The weather forecast was for a fine dry day so I ventured on my long planned Photo walk of the Bray to Greystones Cliff Walk. The Cliff Walk is a very popular amenity. The Cliff Walk runs just above the Railway Line from Dublin to Wexford.
With the weather forecast calling for 96 degrees by Saturday and possibly 100 degree days next week, I think it is safe to say we have transitioned from spring to summer. I'll miss the spring with its optimistic budding flowers, blossoming sakura trees, dynamic weather that is never the same one five minute span to the next, and spring rain (the best kind of rain there is). Not that I am complaining. I have not regularly worn shorts or sandals in some time, and it looks like that two month span of the year has finally arrived in Portland. So had better enjoy it while it lasts.
CZJ Pancolar 50mm f1.8
Pancolar is really amazing lens with wonderful color rendition and sharpness.
Inside the Western Australian Art Gallery is a room, Forecast-"An invitation to feel. Find a place to rest, listen to the sky moving, notice the wind in the leaves, paint the trees in your family, Stay with them as they fade"
In conjunction with Edith Cowan University an interdisciplinary exhibition with an ecological, meteorological message. For more information: artgallery.wa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/forecast-survey...
Further on there was a large exhibition of Aboriginal Artists and I got to meet a couple of them ( took their photo!).
Despite the weather forecast I headed up to Lake Pearson for a three days, and managed a couple of short walks between bands of rain. This photo needs no introduction to those from Canterbury, NZ, and is Castle Hill Station taken from the popular walk into the rocks area. Rain is falling in the peaks at the western end of Craigieburn Range, but thankfully the weather let me walk around the rocks with only the odd shower reaching me.
We are in for some wintery weather over the next few days. As is typical there won't be any sun so I did enjoy this lovely sunrise this morning.
A shot from this mornings trip to Dartmoor national park to photograph this lone tree.
I didn't actually expect to see the sun this morning based on the weather forecasts but I'm very pleased it did make a guest appearance during December after what feels like months of rain and grey skies.
Merry Christmas to you all