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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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Glad to hear you all had a wonderful start to 2011. For all the enquiries....we are the lucky ones that are not flooded in. But wet wet wet it is..... with much more coming. Our new weather station on the roof is working well and soon will be going live world wide again.
Cheers from mozzie land :)
ps...will get to visit you all shortly. The computer hard drive has crashed (again) this time gone for warranty replacement. Just on a tiny old laptop now and will go blind with this little screen.
Oh what a start to the New year LOL....yes we are all still laughing.
The pool pump died, the chlorinator is on its way out, the toot broke down and just received a phone call from family using my other car that it won't start. Hallelujah! Now I wonder what is next? And I did not kill a China man :)
We are just laughing now and know it will only get better. Hey we have our health, healthy kids, grand children. What more can anyone ask for.
pps...oh I forgot the ride on lawn mower just lost a drive as well, and the amp testing machine is kaputt. OK I will start our New Year as from now ;-)
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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Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII. Based on his sprite.
This is the 6th variation I have made of this figure. I wanted to use updated parts Lego has released and I based it on his sprite in game somewhat, hence the choice of the brighter blue.
* Head is Yoshix
* Torso, legs, and pauldron modified by me
* Buster sword made by me
Uummannaq is home to 1400 people and 3000 dogs. This district boasts the largest number of glaciers found in the one place.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Lawrence Hislop
This small, still lake in Michigan rendered reflections as wet gobs of oil paint on canvas. Life imitating art at a most basic level.
Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures and a rare example of clouds in sinking air. As updrafts carry precipitation enriched air to the cloud top, upward momentum is lost and the air begins to spread out horizontally, becoming a part of the anvil cloud. Because of its high concentration of precipitation particles, the saturated air is heavier than the surrounding air and sinks back towards the earth.
Chirasree Chakraborty 2014. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited.