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Half the fun counting raptors at the Florida Keys Hawkwatch fall migration is watching the cloud formations, and we get some strange ones. This enormous, Independence Day sized "flying saucer" formed in a way that it looked as if it emerged and moved toward us from within the white cloud. As less and less white receded around it, it gave the appearance of movement. Curry Hammock State Park (FL).
The cloud is a "lenticular cloud" and the rare thing is they normally do not form over flat terrain such as the Keys, which really is like just over the ocean since the land is just a road with a little land on each side.
Yes, I love nature and nature photography, thus the flowers, the dragonflies, the bird photos, but the sky is nature too, right?
Cranes, Dawn Clouds. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A flock of sandhill cranes flies beneath dawn clouds.
When I began photographing (mostly) migratory birds in the Western United States I was largely ignorant about what I was seeing. One of my first bird photography forays was essentially an accident. I happened to run into a friend in a coffee stand line one morning and she (who is a true "birder") happened to say, more or less, "I think you might like to go visit this place I know of." Given the way I sometimes work, that serendipitous nudge was sufficient to get me to drive a few hours before dawn the following weekend to visit this place I'd never heard of before. I arrived. There were tons of birds. (And I discovered the power of the sound of the birds, too!) I had no idea what I was seeing, but I liked it and I made photographs. I was hooked.
As I started to edge over toward an active compulsion to photograph birds more seriously I began to recall a earlier hints about this world that I had ignored. One was all the way back in a college "natural science" short course, where the prof (who seemed a bit "odd" to me then) went on about snowy egrets (which I mostly ignored) and made us read Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac." I didn't fully "get" Leopold's book at the time, but it planted a seed. (Re-reading it years later I understood more fully the power of Leopold's vision and his writing, and I recommend the book.) One thing that I DID retain from reading that book was an idea that there was something special about sandhill cranes, which were among the birds that I finally discovered in the real world on that first morning when I acted on my friend's coffee line suggestion. The birds in this photograph are sandhill cranes, which seem to me increasingly to be magical birds. In fact it is their characteristic cry that is my strongest audio association with the places where wild birds are found. I photographed this group very early in the morning as their trajectory took them below the edge of dawn-tinged clouds.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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Southeast of Steward, Illinois. View looking west.
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When I Die,
Don't You Ever Cry
I'll Be Your Guiding Star,
Up There From Afar.
At The End Of Your Busy Day,
Spend Some Time Outside & Stay
Look Above & You'll See,
Cluster Of Stars, One Of Them Is Me.
Tell Me Your Stories & I Will Listen
Your Frustrations Or Any Burden
Whether You're Happy Or You Want To Cry
I'll Always Be There Though I May Not Reply.
When There Is Storm, Don't Be So Sad
I Will Be Back & You'll Be Glad
I'm One That Adds Beauty To The Night Sky
You Can Always Reach Me, You Don't Need To Fly...
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the sunset last night last quite some time, and whilst the sun could not be seen, the sky was an intense red/ yellow where it sets and the clouds to the right of where the sun sets had the most immense light cast over them.
Taken from Emley Village looking towards Grange Moor, West Yorkshire, UK
couds over the Sumarice lake in Kragujevac, Serbia
* This photo won me First prise
at the Fotorama04 festival - 'Apolo' photo club exhibition (May 2014.)
© John Wolfrik Photography 2014.
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July 3, 2017
An evening at Nauset Light Beach. One cloud overhead with setting-sun light starting to play on the clouds and horizon.
The vertical banding, like shadows is interesting. The sun was low, so I'm not sure what this is the camera's processor or a natural phenomenon.
Nauset Light Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Eastham, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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© Bruce Christopher 2017
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I was not so happy being lonely
Living without you
So I prayed so hard for your love
In my heart I needed you
Then I looked up in the sky
And I'm thinking why oh why
These are all the many changes in my life
After all the caring and the laughter
No one else like you
I am not a preacher with a sermon
I'm so in love with you
'Cause to live without your love
Like the sun that shines above
Is the magic of the changes in my life
And I'll never forget your love
You and I
We were meant to be
Sweet as rain falling from the sky
You and I
These are all the many changes in my life
Zicht op de rotsen van Bryce Canyon.
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