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Every summer afternoon, like clockwork, the ominous clouds towering over the the spine of the mighty Sierra Nevada in Yosemite National Park brew a fresh new thunderstorm. Winds blow aghast at the higher elevations, foreboding the impending conglameration of the low-pressure moisture-laden atmosphere, ready to dump its next load into the innumerable valleys separated by granite peaks towering into the sky.
To the average mountain dweller (read the pikas, the marmots, the deers and the bears), this is an everyday occurence to which they respond by heading out to hiding places under rocks and vegatation. But we puny humans (like me) try to seek out the highest point possible if only to capture the flow of water vapor - not an intelligent move!
The motion of clouds is quite mesmerizing. As it swirls and bubbles and expands and contracts and moves across the polarized deep blue sky, it creates patterns that, while seemingly motionless to the naked eye, when sped up under the guise of a timelapse, reveal its true form - an ever morphing articulation that like an amoeba never stays still even for a second. Observing its motion high in the thin atmosphere of the Sierras and trying to capture its fluid advance is something that I am drawn to like a moth to bright lights!
Here are the results from a weekend of shooting in the High Sierras while trying to acclimatize for a peak bagging the week thereafter. These were from two hikes, one to the top of Cloud's Rest in Yosemite and the other to the backcountry region of Gaylor lakes.
All of the timelapses were shot with my Sony A700 and the trustly Tamron 17-50mm F2.8 (in different exposure settings). I shot between 200 to 240 foe each of the 5 timelapses.
Yosemite National Park
CA USA
A monochrome view of the church ruins at Reculver, Kent, with some interesting cloud formations going on.
Famous cloudscape photographers:
Léonard Misonne (1870-1943), Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), Ralph Steiner, Robert Davies, and Tzeli Hadjidimitriou.....[Wikipedia]
Sydney Harbour, Sydney (Wednesday 27 Aug 2008 @ 5:23pm).
ISO100 | f/8 | 1/6sec | 17mm | eval meter | AWB | raw | tripod
An 8-portrait shot pano stitch using PTGui.
Day 262 of 365 - Cloudscape
Day 10 of 50 (50mm for 50days)
I don't do cloudscapes all that often but I sort of liked how this looked. And, I couldn't come up with much else for today :P
Something a little different from me today. I have recently become more interested with the structure of clouds and the exciting compositions they can create.
The most exciting type to photograph have to be these cirrus clouds. Their thin, wispy nature gives an artistic quality to basic compositions such as this one.
Snapped by James.
I was flying over to Osaka from Seoul to spend overseas holidays in Japan. very fortunately, I could see this wonderful Cloudscape in the Airplane. I concerned a lot before leaving because it was predicted a rainy day by weather forecast. however it wasn't rained but some cloudy weather was appeared so that I was able to take this photo.
São LuÃs - MA - Brazil.
First thing I did this morning when I looked out of the window was to grab my camera ...
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