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Colors were so nice that we took a little photo safari right in our own backyard. Alas, the sky was so overcast that most of my images turned out looking flat white. This one, though, had a bit of cloud interest. Except for a challenging sky, it was a perfect autumn day.
The woods were alive with color for a November afternoon walk at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, just north of Memphis.
This buck was hiding in the trees about 80 yards across the canal from me. Not sure how long it watching me before I looked up and saw him there.
Second in a series. I went on a quick drive into the Wasatch Mountains following a storm. The clouds were incredible; and then the sun shot out and highlighted the mountains and made the moment magical.
Nikon D810 ISO160 ƒ/11 1/250sec 70mm
Lovely misty start last Sunday, been after this image for a while was just waiting for the right conditions. The wonderful Castle which is circled with these beautiful trees just smothered in enough mist to expose enough of it. I quick rush out the door as I overslept 💤 but managed to get up to the castle in time for the nice light! Taken a my DJI mavic 3 pro 24mm
we had only one single day of showers and thunderstorms, the rest of our stay was blue skies and temperatures in the upper 20ies and even 30°C… so when we walked along the beaches of zeeland, one beachclub every couple of kilometers, and at the same time the weather changed quickly… the light-situation was awesome, very imposing, dappled light, …
but, it still seemed very inviting to go and get a flat white, look outside and weather the weather.
© Ray Skwire
As I have the last several days, I've been heading to Camden each night for sunset to redo a particular shot that I got about a year ago. After yesterday's rain, it was kind of a priority to get out today because the window for this shot is almost closed. However, if you hadn't noticed today, there were really interesting clouds and rain shafts all over the place today with lots of structure and precipitation. So when I was pulling up at the waterfront and saw an incredible rain shaft just north of the Ben Franklin Bridge, I thought about chasing it, then decided against it, and then quickly changed my mind once more. Now, I've already posted a shot of this from later on in this chase and I will likely post some more of it finally moving away from me, but I actually fired off a bunch of shots of this while cruising because I knew there was a good chance that I simply would not be able to catch up with this and that with the sun starting to wind down, this was going to start falling apart. So, I'm glad that I did shoot out the window because this actually turned out well. I had to adjust the level and crop in because it was pretty cockeyed, and I did enhance the structure some because it was soft (shooting it at 20mm from farther away than it appears), but I can guarantee that's actually exactly how it looked - large swirling wisps of rain, mammatus, significant turbulence, and amazing structure. What a thing of beauty!
© Ray Skwire
Out in southern New Jersey for a series of cells that moved through in the evening and during the overnight.
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
William Butler Yeats
© Ray Skwire
A better view of yesterday's line of storms producing a pretty mean looking front edge as it moved from Wilmington, DE across the Delaware River into Pennsgrove, NJ. This system produced magnificent mammatus out ahead of the approaching cell (just visible in the upper left), strong wind, heavy downpours, and frequent lightning. Later, as it moved through the area and lost most of its strength, a large and vivid rainbow appeared before a muted sunset cast tones of blue and magenta onto the higher levels of clouds.
© Ray Skwire
South Jersey Sunset
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As I was making my way towards the Wharton State forest fire on my way home last night, I got lucky enough to catch the sun sinking down over the smoke filled pinelands, which was both a beautiful and eerie site.
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I think this is a Paper Wasp nest. The "thread" is a very thin part of a Madrone branch. I didn't see any activity. Maybe they are hibernating??
I went on a quick drive into the Wasatch Mountains following a storm. The clouds were incredible; and then the sun shot out and highlighted the mountains and made the moment magical.
Nikon D810 ISO160 ƒ/11 1/4000sec 160mm