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When I originally planned to photograph the Callanish Standing Stones I had visualised the resultant images in monochrome with strong contrast, heavy skies and deep textures. Today’s post is pretty much the embodiment of that original plan and at the time I was feeling pretty happy with the result. However, I posted the colour images first, even though they were only intended as a means to an end, and having been given so much positive feedback and kind comments on the colour editions I’m now questioning the wisdom in using the mono images.
Well it is the start of the competition season and I’m looking for images to submit into the monochrome category so today I am testing the water, so to speak, to see if these go down ok. As always, any comments or feedback would be very much appreciated.
Everything in this picture involves cement. Cement (or concrete) buildings, cement silos, cement road, cement domes, cement pillars, even crushed cement (or limestone) covering the beach where I am standing to take this picture. If you are a "cement-ophile", then this picture is for you : )
St. Mary's Cement Factory, Charlevoix, Michigan operates this complex, and the nearby limestone pit. They produce Portland Cement and related products. Cement mixed with sand, stone and water is "concrete."
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Had some nice clouds today and couldn't resist, no that's not right, "had to" stop and take some pictures of Castle Crags which is just south of Dunsmuir, California and off I-5. I knew with those clouds and light I had something to work with. All processing on this was with Lightroom CC.
The following stuff is more for my own interests, but you're all welcome to look or not, believe me I won't be offended if you don't have time.
I've added a few links to other pictures of Castle Crags, one is a tighter shot using the A9 and my 70-200mm with the 1.4x converter.
Also, this shot unedited, SOOC in case you want to see the difference the processing made.
And the last one is a picture from January 2016, and not nearly as nice.
Here's the tighter shot using the A9.
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Here's the SOOC shot.
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And the old shot from 2016.
Brand-new Soo Line EMD SD60 No. 6012 leads the hot Ford train westbound out of Tunnel City, Wisconsin, in the very last light of September 20, 1987. Trailing is recently acquired and repainted former Burlington Northern SD40B No. 6450 (BN 7600), along with Soo SD40 No. 755 and Milwaukee Road SD40-2 No. 134.
Pensamentos....
Nao podemos pensar no que nao fomos
nao podemos viver pensando em que poderiamos ter sido
nao somos o que pensamos que fomos, ou mesmo somos
apenas, o que hoje vivenciamos no decorrer de nossas vidas.......
Estas coisas existenciais me fascinam.
Ate mesmo o que eu poderia ter sido
se nao fosse o destino
que me presenteasse com o que sou.
Pois nao sou nada,
apenas o reflexo de como seu cerebro me ve.
Entao, nao sou, nao vejo nao sinto
nao fui.
Apenas sou o que eu posso ser no fazer das coisas
que somos hoje, reflexos de tudo que passamos
e pelas experiencias da vida....
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May 26, 2016 - Kearney Nebraska, US
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Most of you know, if you follow my photostream, I'm a lightning fanatic. Since I work overnights this year, it has been extremely hard to find the time to do so.
After a long day of chasing, we made it home late afternoon. Right before midnight we had another developing cell with a good lightning display. Though when I finally got set up, the storm was weakening and and I only had time for a few captures... It was worth it... just for these few.
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March 14, 2016 - West of Kearney Nebraska US
My first Lightning Stacked Image of 2016
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It was to good to be true, but right after sunset a secondary small non severe thunderstorm started to brew just to the southwest of Kearney.
Even though I just had a spectacular afternoon of some incredible stormscapes, I was in for a treat this night. An electrified thriller, one storm that I wont soon forget.
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Papago Park is a municipal park of the cities of Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona, USA. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride. It includes Hunt's Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. -Wikipedia
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Ethereal Grand Canyon, Dark clouds and sun rays illuminating the Grand Canyon at Cape Royal
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This old tree can be found in Shobrooke Park, close to Crediton. I just about managed to get this photo before a wall of hail hit me on my way back (approaching from the right hand side). The tree seems to have lived through a lot, not just in terms of the centuries it endured but it also seems to have survived some lightning or storm damage on the top.
The magical atmosphere of a cloudy afternoon in St James' Park . www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJJGeaWVFo
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June 10, 2015 - West of Kearney Nebraska US
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The ride home wasn't very far due to this was more close to home than usual. Had some beautiful stormscapes captured on the way back to Kearney.
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The dark side of July
Dark clouds above rural landscape nearby my hometown
Dunkle Wolken über dem Sauberg bei Hofgeismar
July 17, 2017 - Kearney Nebraska US
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It was approaching 12 hours chasing locally that day. Now over 800 captures from that afternoon. I have to admit I was tired...
It didn't make a difference... if it was photographic I was bound to stay out long enough to get a few good shots of the newly developing storms to our southwest. They were firing off a ton of cloud to cloud lighting.
I was only a few blocks from home, so I deiced to stick around to end this storm chasing day in a great way.
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October 27, 2014 - Kearney Nebraska, US
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Weak front was pushing though, created this surreal color capture just on the outskirts of Kearney Nebraska @ Sunset!
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July 10, 2022 - Kearney Nebraska US
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A fast moving but highly electrifying lightning show!
Not many pics from this event but this video tells the story!
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Last trees standing on a clearing surviving a windfall
Die drei Aufrechten
Bäume im Reinhardswald auf einer durch Windwurf verursachten Lichtung
July 9, 2014 - North of Minden Nebraska US
What a Day to remember...
I was just out of surgery for my left knee, I wasn't supposed to be out at all. Knee was swollen to the size of a soft ball or bigger. Wrapped & in a cast but I wasn't about to let one of the best photographic storms of the season pass me by. Mrs & Friends helped me into my truck. Gear in hand I was off!
Before I was able to get on this storm. Historically, this storm wrecked havoc on 16 counties with softball and baseball sized hail. I caught up with it just to the south of Minden Nebraska as I was traveling south. I would never get in front of it but only on the back side as it proceeded to the southeast into North Central Kansas.
From my point of view, it was one of the best photographic storm of the year in South Central Nebraska. Some incredible captures from the back side of this incredibly photogenic thunderstorm. Light & Shadow played well as the Sun peaked out at the end of this day!
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And then (for the alternative monochrome image of the day), the children go and brighten it up: www.michikofujii.co.uk/blog/82b8m2k7dmmzdtykzjte9zrlt26lt7
Wind, waves and rain streaming from the dark clouds made a moody black and white waterscape, Luskentyre, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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A changeable day often leads to beautiful sunsets. Taken on a tripod - just a single frame. Wide angle 16-36 adapted onto the Canon R5. Struggled a bit with composition and the sun is a bit central for my liking - but the tramlines created greated FG interest so allowed them to take precedence. F13 to star the sun.
Garðar BA 64 is thought to be the oldest steel ship in Iceland. Launched in Norway in 1912, it was hunting whales in the Southern Ocean until sold to the Faroe Islands in 1936 and at the end of the second world war to Iceland.
In December 1981 Garðar BA 64 was deemed unfit for duty and was rammed ashore at Skápadalur valley in Patreksfjörður, Westfjords, Iceland. (from: Stuck in Iceland Dec 2012)
May 29, 2023 - Odessa Nebraska US
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Lost the last light of the day... Slide back into the city limits to have the city lights paint the sky. Best way to get the low level light to work for me!
Sporadic cloud to ground lightning. More so the cloud to cloud lightning was illuminating this shelf cloud & underbelly of this storm. It was a fast mover so not many but a few gems to close out this night.
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Josh and I stopped in a small town called Rheda Wiedenbrucke on our way to Cologne, Germany. The streets were empty, and that added to this historic beauty.
It was as if we stepped into a time machine.
Power Pole reflected in the water left from a spring thunderstorm, as a new storm develops overhead.
March 28, 2025 - Kearney Nebraska
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A dramatic display of nature shows a large, illuminated storm cloud with lightning creating a stunning backdrop over a dimly lit horizon. The vivid contrast between the dark cloud formations and the bright lightning highlights the intensity of the storm.
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The clouds obscured the full moon tonight until very late, so could not get any colour in shooting this photo, but at least it did become visible late evening in our skies, between clouds.
As angry clouds flow overhead and icy winds blow over the waters of Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, an eastbound BNSF stack train is silhouetted against falling rain to the north illuminated by the setting sun on September 30, 2014.
July 6, 2025 - North Central Kansas US
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A dramatic sky dominates the landscape, with lowering rotating base indicating this supercell was gaining strength. Rolling plains stretch across the foreground with hues of green and gold.
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