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More snow was predicted today for the area I live in, but it hasn't arrived. So with no snowscapes to photograph, I've been looking through my summer photos. As this beautiful tower stands on such a high point, I can get photos of it with lovely blue sky behind it. I visited the tower during a day out with my friend
Broadway Tower was the brainchild of the great 18th Century landscape designer, Capability Brown. His vision was carried out for George William 6th Earl of Coventry
with the help of renowned architect James Wyatt and completed in 1798.
It is one of England's outstanding viewpoints and at 1024 feet (312m) above sea level, it is the second highest point on the Cotswold escarpment. Unrivalled views survey an expanse of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 Counties.
It looked like a promise of rain this week in the skies above the Sacramento River and the possible start of the predicted above normal rainfall to help offset 4 years of drought in California. It was beautiful, however, the moisture never materialized. We'll keep our fingers crossed the weather will change soon.
Archaeologists have reportedly discovered an ancient Polynesian calendar predicting the end of the world in 2013. People everywhere are advised to collect canned goods and survival supplies.
Predicting the weather can be so frustrating. Another morning I got the forcast wrong,so another back garden photo one of many.
my SIL dearest sent me some easter type prezzies. this is most intriguing. according to the state of crystals inside, you can tell the weather. of course i shook it up before i got the instructions, so i have no clue if it all works. i'll see if i can get a better picture thru the glass of the crystals, later
The forecasters had been predicting big tornados for the day I shot this beginning three days previously. Indeed a strong storm front formed in the afternoon and approached Wichita at sixty miles an hour. I figured no photowalk so went to the Y to get some exercise. Soon after I arrived at the gym, the tornado warning sirens went off and I got to spend an hour in the locker room, which is the storm shelter at the Y. Afterwards I got in my workout while it rained a bit, and by the time I finished the storm had passed to the east. Quite amazingly, behind the storm it was perfectly calm, so I ended up getting in my photowalk anyway. For whatever reason, we got this unusual ground fog after the storm.... There were a few small tornados that day, but not much damage near Wichita....
The snow, that had been predicted a couple of days ago when I went out to photography the groyne images the other day, fell yesterday and covered the Grimsby, Ontario area with some 10cm of snow. In the backyard we have a couple of well-past-their-prime Muskoka chairs that had been painted a brightish pastel blue many years ago. That paint is now well weathered and peeled off in many places. I also have an old kitchen chair that was painted pink many decades ago. I have no idea why or by who. But its paint, while pretty much intact, has extensive cracking, creating a nice texture. I carefully walked out through the fresh snow, being careful not to leave footprints where they would show up in the image, placed the pink chair beside one of the Muskoka chairs and then cropped in-camera to keep only one of the Muskoka chairs and the pink kitchen chair. The result was a colourful pink and blue pastel subject set in a bright snow scene. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-01-27
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4.0-5.6 non-D lense set to 125mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Spot metering, Aperture priority mode, f/11.0, 1/100 sec with an EV+1.00 exposure bias to preserve the pastels. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, crop the image to 5x7 aspect ratio to get rid of some intrusive materials on the left side and recentre to keep it more-or-less symmetrical, slightly brighten the image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV+0.40, use the black level tool and reduce its value to brighten the darkest areas while preserving highlight detail, use Shadows/Highlights to significantly recover shadow detail, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: I loaded the image as 2 layers and on the top layer added a white/opaque layer mask onto which I painted in the areas corresponding to the chairs (using soft-edged brush and white ‘paint’) to let them show through so I could adjust the brightness shed and snow brightness without impacting the chairs and then on the layer below (i.e. the chairs) of the image slightly slightly increased their saturation, create new working layer from visible result, use the colour balance tool to reduce a slight green colour cast, sharpen slightly, save, scale to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
I predict some flack for posting this shot based on the, perfectly innocent, name of the ship. An historic boat, one of the flotilla of small ships that rescued British Troops from the Normandy Beaches as the German's pushed to the very edges of France, but now rescued and leading a safer, more sedate life at the seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare.
Oh, and for anyone who complains that this isn't Bristol and shouldn't be in the Bristol pool, I'm putting my money that the name gets me off the hook for this one :D
Слава Україні, слава президенту Зеленському, слава українському народу.
Gloire à l'Ukraine, gloire au président Zelensky, gloire au peuple ukrainien.
Слава Украине, слава Президенту Зеленскому, слава украинскому народу.
The forecast predicted the area to the west of Skipton would be full sun with excellent visibility but when I arrived it was under a quilt of cloud. It is a fair hike to this location but it is a shot I have never done before so I pressed on. The Gypsum with a dirty DB shed passed in nothing light, so I sat and had my lunch admiring the view. A trace of blue appeared eventually and gradually the sky opened up. The Arcow ran slightly late which certainly helped. I like this location a lot, it offers several angles and I will return, possibly in Autumn.
A bit of a different hinting technique and I never caught the move. What looks like the edge of the water on the bank of the bayou is actually a drifting mass of water hyacinth that has set up it own tiny ecosystem on the bayou. This mass is being blown over the surface of the water by the wind. This Tri-colored Heron had set up station on the edge of the drift mass and would fly off over the water and attempt to snag fish while he was in flight. Not sure what type of weed is growing on the edge of the hyacinth, but it has also become a part of the drifting mass. They hyacinth in the background is a separate mass.
Also want to update everyone on tropical storm Imelda. The storm was expected to drift northward yesterday, but tropical storms always have a mind of their own. Instead of the storms drifting northward the flow has been a bit more to the southeast and is dumping huge amounts of waters on Houston. The flooding has begun, and we can only hope that it will be minimal, but that doesn’t ever seem to be the case around. I am high and dry, but a lot of residents are not that fortunate. I know that there is also flooding going on from Houston to Beaumont.
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I also want to warn everyone about some gutter garbage people that are present here on Flickr. Perverts trolling for anything that they can put their filthy hands on. Seem like they have returned so make sure you know what you are looking at if your children are on here and have your safe search dialed in as well. Nothing is free from corruption any longer. It just took me far too long to get her posts deleted!!!!
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They predicted Monday would be a beautiful summer day and we had to take advantage of it since it would rain again on Tuesday, so I went back to this park where there is also a small "zoo" with chickens, rabbits and donkeys.
Was hoping to catch the predicted aurora, but came away with this shot from the back side of the roaches.
The predicted storm definitely wasn't worth getting out of bed for, but we did get some interesting sea conditions.
This is a crop from a high ISO larger image, so a bit of noise is present but hopefully you get the general idea behind the shot.
As I was about to step out for shopping this morning, the unique clouds formation in the sky deeply attracted me, just a quick snap. Kind of interesting, it was like the map. Please click on the upper right corner the image for better viewing. You can also visit me at www.azimaging.ca and www.500px.com/azimaging
Well, the cat's starting to get out of the bag, so here goes...
Basically, Adobe (the maker of Photoshop, etc) is starting a huge global campaign for their new Creative Cloud line. Like, a HUGE global campaign that's expected to hit millions and millions of people around the world and last for almost a full year. They held a competition and picked 12 student artists from around the U.S. who use Adobe products in their workflow. There were a few fashion designers, web designers, illustrators, and just two photographers... and I'm one of them!!!
A few weeks ago, Adobe representatives and a production team came to LA and filmed me for a full day, with an interview in my apartment, shooting an amazing sunset at the beach, working some processing magic on my shots, and just living and being crazy and being me. It was a total dream and I'm so, so lucky and fortunate to finally have had a major opportunity to shine. The footage is now being condensed into stills and a 2-minute video that tells my story of how I use my background in meteorology to predict the best weather for landscape photography and how I use Lightroom and Photoshop to breathe life into an image. Once the campaign starts in late August, they're telling me I'll be everywhere -- all Adobe social channels, all over their website, literally around the world. The producers told me they put my video and profile together first because they thought it was the best of the 12. I'll let y'all know when it comes out, but you probably won't miss it!
Regardless of how you feel about the new Creative Cloud, I just wanted to take a moment to thank anyone who has ever commented on or faved my images, or shown one of my photos to a friend, parent, coworker, or anyone else. You all are helping me live my dream, and I'd never be able to do it without you. Day by day, minute by minute... this thing called life is getting real. :))
I post this image now because this is the shot I'm processing in the video, using Lightroom!
all the best,
- Jeff
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I predicted a nice sunset and grabbed my camera and my graduated ND-filter and walked into the center of the town. I think it turned out pretty well!
(Some of you might have seen this yesterday, but I had to edit a little thing that bothered me, thats why I re-uploaded it! So please leave a comment and fav it again! :-))
The weather forecast had predicted cloudy skies for the 27th-28th night, but when I went to bed I was glad to see that the sky was entirely cloudless. I set my alarm clock for 4am.
I awoke from a slightly scary dream (a ghost made of light) and immediately thought "oh no, the clock hasn't rung, I've missed it". Then I got out of bed, thinking that I might still see some of the eclipse. It was dark outside, and I went back to my room, to check the clock. 4am! I'd awoken a few moments before the clock rung.
I stood outside taking photos for about an hour, witnessing the last sliver of penumbra leaving, and then returning. It was quite awe-inspiring to see the moon so red.
I showed it to my cat, telling him he probably wouldn't see it again, but he wasn't interested.
Spenny Bridge at dusk. Bristol, December 2016.
I thought the sky looked good for a decent sunset and popped out with my camera. Unusually, I predicted correctly this time!
As predicted by the weather man another storm is heading our way this afternoon lasting till tomorrow :((( A view from my office looking over East River into Queens and Brooklyn
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Einstein predicted that time slows down the faster you travel and the time-dilation hypothesis has since been proven by flying atomic clocks on aircraft.
The three fastest human beings at the moment are NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques (pictured) and Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Kononenko who are orbiting Earth on the International Space Station at a speed of around 28 800 km/h.
They are travelling so fast that they will return home to Earth after their six-month spaceflight 0.007 seconds younger than if they had stayed with their feet on the ground.
But how do astronauts perceive time in space? Space Station crew report that time seems to speed up in microgravity so European researchers are trying to find out more by immersing astronauts in virtual reality and testing their reaction times.
A virtual reality headset is used to block external visual cues that could influence the results. The experiment focuses on how astronauts estimate time duration as well as their reaction times. They are asked gauge how long a visual target appears on screen. Their reaction times to these prompts are recorded to process speed and attention.
The astronauts run the experiment before flight, on the International Space Station and again when they land to compare results. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst was the first test subject to take part in this experiment in 2018. Anne and David did a session in February in ESA’s Columbus laboratory.
Understanding how time is perceived in space is important as astronauts are often required to conduct precision work where timing is everything. This research in microgravity will help reveal clues as to what helps keep our brains ticking the seconds accurately.
Credits: NASA
Numbers, letters, lets look at the blueprints. Puzzles, messages, lets look at the plan. Encrypted, decrypted, encoded information, the cipher of the decipher of the text. Predicted, restricted, classified information, the data of the metadata of the context. What are the algorithms, the sequences, the calculations of the code of the Beast Mode? What is the linguistics of the morphology of the syntax of the semantics of the schematics?
The coming apocalypse, the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The prince of darkness, the Mark of the Beast. Mystery Babylon, Babylon the Great. The battle of Armageddon, the second coming of Christ.
Psalm 75:8 “In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.”
They control the information. They control the information flow. They collect the information. They run the data through computer models and simulations. Data is the future. Those who control the data will control the future. In fact, you could say: Those who control the data will know the future. The more AI advances, the more it can predict the future. That’s why those at the top think: if we can predict the future, we can control the future. Well, that’s what they think. In reality, they can’t see their own future demise. They can’t beat God. They can fight against Him, but in the end they will lose.
Technology speeds up time. Not that time itself speeds up, but that more can be accomplished in the same amount of time. “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.” Technology has allowed us to “rush” here and there. Technology has caused knowledge to increase. The coming technology will change the current landscape forever. “The end will come like a flood.” As time speeds up more and more, these crazy technological ideas/goals will come in quickly and take many by surprise. The globalists have this goal in mind: to usher us into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What does this mean for humanity? It means transhumanism: 666 the Mark of the Beast.
Isaiah 26:20-21 “Come, my people (bride), enter your chambers (wedding chamber), and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves (in the Lord) for a little while (7 years) until (God’s wrath/Tribulation) the fury has passed by. For behold, the LORD is coming (second coming of Christ)out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.”
Predicted rain came close but did not arrive at White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, NM on the evening of the full moon.
Spring officially begins and we even had some sunshine today. The lovely weather came as a surprise as the weather forecast had predicted another gloomy day. I took the opportunity to take a photo of my daffodils in the garden. And no, I didn't crawl under the daffodils to get the perspective with the blue sky in the background. Instead I used a simple trick: I placed a mirror behind the daffodils in a slightly inclined position due to which it reflected the sky and not me or the vegetation behind me.
The Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae native to Eurasia. It is one of the most common dragonflies in Europe, occurring in a wide variety of water bodies, though with a preference for breeding in still water such as ponds and lakes. In the south of its range adults are on the wing all year round. Adults can be seen on the wing all year round in southern Europe but in northern regions they occur from June to November.
This small dragonfly is seen in a wide variety of habitats, including lakes, ponds, canals and slow-flowing rivers. They are ambush predators, waiting on a prominent perch - such as a leaf or the top of a gate, until prey fly past, whereupon they will fly after it. They are territorial on breeding waters, often attempting to chase much bigger dragonflies away such as southern hawkers. This habit of repeatedly returning to a sunny spot allows you to easily predict where they are going to land, which is why it is one of the easiest dragonflies to photograph. This is one of the most abundant dragonflies in Europe, and populations show no evidence of decline. (wikipedia)
This is a female and was taken at Lullymore peatlands in the Bog of Allen in Co. Kildare. Always a pleasure to see. They even come over to investigate what you are when in their territory, even landing on my shoulder while I was walking around. Love these guys.
The rare Tau Herculids meteor shower predicted for May 30/31, 2022 as a possible meteor storm, but instead produced a modest "normal" meteor shower. The meteors appeared yellowish (as in the bright meteor) and were slow-moving, and often had a sparkling effect as they moved, again as per the irregular brightness of the bright meteor streak. The meteors were from remnants of the Comet 73P/Schawassmann-Wachmann 3 which broke apart in 1995.
This is a blend of exposures taken over nearly 90 minutes from 11:23 pm MDT to 12:47 am MDT, capturing 15 meteors, including a very bright one, the best of the night, which left an orange ionization "smoke" trail expanding away from the meteor over the next few minutes. The blend includess at least three non-shower "sporadic" meteors, including one very bright one shooting toward the horizon at left in Scorpius.
This shows the radiant point of the Tau Herculids, actually located in Boötes above the bright star Arcturus above centre. The field of view spans the sky from Leo, setting at far right, to Lyra and the summer Milky Way rising at far left. The Coma Berenices star cluster is below the bright meteor. Corona Borealis and Hercules are left of Arcturus, while bright Vega in Lyra is at upper left. Spica in Virgo is low in the southwest at bottom right. Scorpius and Antares are low in the southeast rising on the horizon.
This is a blend of 18 exposures for the meteors and smoke trails, stacked onto the sky background taken just before the very bright meteor occured earlier in the night when the sky was still blue from lingering twilight.
All were with the Canon Ra for 15 seconds each but at ISOs from 1600 to 6400, increased through the night as the sky darkened, and with the 11mm TTArtisan full-frame fish-eye lens wide open at f/2.8. The camera was on a Star Adventurer tracking mount to keep the stars stationary over the sequence to aid in aligning and stacking the images, so the meteors appear in their correct positions relative to the background stars. Shot from home in Alberta on a very clear and fine night, a pleasant change for a celestial event!
These gears pass some the energy provided by the operator turning a crank to the rear section of Tide Predicting Machine No. 2, a special purpose mechanical analog computer for predicting the height and time of high and low tides.
The U.S. government used Tide Predicting Machine No. 2 from 1910 to 1965 to predict tides for ports around the world. The machine, also known as “Old Brass Brains,” uses an intricate arrangement of gears, pulleys, chains, slides, and other mechanical components to perform the computations.
A person using the machine would require 2-3 days to compute a year’s tides at one location. A person performing the same calculations by hand would require hundreds of days to perform the work. The machine is 10.8 feet (3.3 m) long, 6.2 feet (1.9 m) high, and 2.0 feet (0.61 m) wide and weighs approximately 2,500 pounds (1134 kg). The operator powers the machine with a hand crank.
With cloud cover predicted for most of Washington on that fateful night, I was not particularly hopeful in capturing the aurora. Despite the low probability, I drove through a treacherous winter storm hitting Snoqualmie pass and hunted around the central Washington for a dark place with clear opening to the north. I finally found a dark canal bank with a possible opening. And within moments of spreading out the tripod, the aurora showed its true colors, with pillars rising so high above me that even the vertical composition couldn't capture its full height. If it were any clearer, the camera would have been saturated with the auroral glow.
After that high, I was dreading the drive back. The winter storm over Snoqualmie pass had become even more intense, with a layer of sleet and ice covering miles of the highway. Lack of any traffic meant that there was no help around if I had a spinout. If not for that heightened alert level after the aurora, I would not have made it home safely. Hopefully this occurs again before the PNW settles into its summer.
Quincy
WA
With a strong geomagnetic storm predicted for the night, I took a road trip to the Canyonlands to get some good subjects for a picture under the northern lights. My opportunities while living in Duluth had been spoiled by clouds all but one time (and it was the one time I didn't have my camera)
So, with little-to-no cloud cover on the radar, I left northwest, settling on Church Rock north of Monticello, Utah. I get there around 9:15, and practice fire quite a few pictures to get my focus right. As luck would have it, right as I get it adjusted, I check the screen and see a hint of color in the sky.
Quickly I fire off as many pictures as I can in between passing cars and semi trucks on the highway. But I notice something with each picture -- a great wall of clouds right down the middle of the sky.
What?
While cool in it's own right, those greens on the horizon mixed with the red above makes me wonder what could've been behind the clouds.But I'll still take the colors this far south.
I always try to think of the best possible location to be for a spectacularly predicted meteor shower weeks in advance, and last night set out to reach that chosen place. Sadly, it would appear that just about every road I tried to drive on of the 60 miles or so one way trip to the site was under a paralyzing construction zone, starting on the beloved I-81. I finally reached the point of inaccessibility in Buena Vista, VA when the road up into the mountains was blocked for construction. The detour would have been utterly ridiculous, so after an incredible waste of gas headed back to a location closer to home. Ran into my final mountain road construction delay en route, making me contemplate strange conspiracy theories.
The crowds on the parkway were insane, cars and people everywhere. It has been my experience that people, including other photographers, can be utter doom for night long exposures since they can't keep a light of some sort off for more than a minute or 2. Throw a bunch together and there will be lights going off like a disco for hours. So my friend Steve and I were fortunate to land a good spot at Abbott Lake at the Peaks of Otter without anyone near us. This location was early in the night and the meteors were sparse, and then finally the spot completely ruined by heavy cloud cover.
I headed for home due to a low gas tank thanks to so much wasted driving earlier, and nowhere to get any more up in the mountains. So I was forced into the location where I got this shot, The View Purgatory Mountain overlook on the parkway. The sky had become much more clear in this area, though there were a few people about, including a photographer I had met years ago in a storm. This is one of the last places I would have opted to shoot the meteor shower. I plopped the camera down, and the first shot was the composition that never changed over several hours...aimed straight at the shower radiant. People everywhere, cars driving past constantly, and so the philosophy became "use their chaos for advantage". If you sit in one place and run the camera for hours something interesting and unexpected is bound to plop into the scene. This came in the form of an oncoming car and I powered off the camera in the middle of a 25 second exposure to catch the car's lights at the perfect time before they blew out the scene. The meteors got better all the way up to 5 AM when I left due to the sun's influence beginning. This collection has 23 meteor captures, the moral is just set up the camera and go socialize and do other things and leave it running, punctuated by a moment of luck and attentiveness.
While predicting where the birds will overnight on this refuge is an iffy proposition, this shallow lake just off the tour-route road is a regular hangout. The trick is to check it out early to see if any pathfinder birds have already selected it. If so, they will continually vocalize to the overflying birds trying to entice them to drop down and join them (increasing safety in numbers). There are several blinds here that you can select for different vantage positions. It's still early, and this lake was eventually completely filled with overnighting birds.
IMG_4248; Sandhill Cranes
Some like to predict and forecast the end of the world and envision a doomsday scenario. Others are are more optimistic and think the Ice Cream Man is just around the corner.
I know I've posted about 4 or 5 versions of this same place, but let me tell ya, it's just euphoric walking through this forest of stumps at sunset with a camera and tripod. About every 10ft I would stop to compose a new shot. This went on for about a half hour as the sun went down. It was really hard not to shoot there for hours. I only had so much sun to play with.
Here is the Large version for your background . Give it a try and wait for someone to walk by and look at it. You'll probably get a good reaction.
Oh and I don't want to start putting a disclaimer that if you steal my photos and use them or print them out and sell them on a street corner in Edinburgh that I'm going to go midevil on you. So, just be kind and use it for your background, but nothing else. I'm a certified karate master*, and don't want to unleash my never-tested skills on you.
* karate master certificate was awarded at one of the many mini mall karate studios around the LA area when I was 14. I'm so inflexible right now I can barely tie my own shoes
I had predicted that the sun would just lick the front of 50008 as it passed this location at its expected time. I didn't know of any location better for sun angles. There had been a build-up of squiff from the west that wouldn't put me off having a go at this.
I was surprised to see few people here but was pleased to be in the company of P.T. amongst others.
With high heat and humidity predicted for later today, it's time to backtrack to the first day of March and get some chilly feeling pictures with Brother Marson paying a visit to da Range.
We started out in Two Harbors hoping to get up to the Northshore for some shots of the morning loads. We soon found out there was not going to be a morning train and adjusted our attention to a load we knew was up in Minntac. We headed west on snow covered roads and were able to intercept him just as he left. The pursuit was on!
Here he's pounding upgrade at Hoyt Lakes with snow falling and a nice cloud of steam risiing from the hot pellets.