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We had spotty thunder storms all day today. Went out in the evening to an old favorite and caught the setting sun illuminating this big storm to the south.
I thought I would change gears today to a landscape image. Since this is Thursday and it is suppose to be Throw Back Thursday which I don't do I thought I would do Thunder Mountain Thursday.
This is a simple LR 5 edit with nothing more than moving all of the sliders around.
View from the plane
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There will be thunder then, and I`ll remember.
Remember being hit and fall, but rose again.
And again, and again and again.
Starburst at the lookout.
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Languished Thunders.
Erschrockene Gefühle immaterielle Zufälle Konsequenzen unvollkommene mathematische Wahrscheinlichkeiten,
Que representa los ejemplos sorprendentes de idiosincrasia diseñado desarrollos maravillosas reformas de pensador,
Constater les hésitations noyer les excoriations les témoignages apparents les désordres,
emócie protichodné cirkulujúcej oznámenia preklady priechody pochybný ponorenie uznáva darebákov,
insynuacje badając okazję za współudział rozkojarzony zalety przeważają postawy maltretowane,
發現叢林證實結果復雜暴行描述信息闡釋原因,
szomorú zavart küzd univerzum tartalmazó környezetekben harag leíró nyilvánvaló megvilágosodott vágyak,
lata motiv olycklig kunskap avstå onda frukter utför återfödelse andliga identitet söker åtgärd,
interpretazioni deliranti indifferenti menti distratte egoista imprigionati anime all'illuminazione percorso veritiera,
穏やかな感覚穏やかな幻想吸収された瞑想神の祈り幸せな教え啓示.
Steve.D.Hammond.
I know these might not look like spectacular pictures, but they’re incredibly difficult to take. Ever heard the expression “quick as lightning”? So in the same split-second, you have to spot the lightning bolt in a sea of black clouds from 400 km above, aim at this minuscule white dot with your viewfinder and a big 800mm lens, focus (in the dark), and shoot. Needless to say this is impossible unless you figure out another technique… Oh well, maybe looking at the thunder striking the planet from above the massive night clouds doesn’t impress you, but I find it excessively beautiful and menacing, like swimming in deep dark waters at night and wondering what’s below you… Huge respect to Andreas Mogensen who only spent eight days on the ISS but still managed to capture a lightning strike and an even more elusive blue jet erupting upwards from it. His photo (well it was a video still actually) encouraged the "space storm hunter" ASIM facility that is now outside the Columbus module. It is purpose-built to take pictures like this, but they are not so beautiful as they use different wavelengths that are much more interesting and useful to scientists. Also it takes 720 pictures of our planet a minute... continuously, how can we compete with that? Come to think of it, Andreas must be an extremely lucky guy! ;) ASIM is revealing things nobody knew about thunderstorms, explaining new phenomena and discovering new ways of how lightning is interacting with our atmosphere and influencing our climate! www.esa.int/asim
Survolés de nuit, les orages sont spectaculaires, à la fois magnifiques et un peu inquiétants – un peu comme nager de nuit dans des eaux sombres sans savoir ce qui se cache dans les profondeurs... On devine la couverture nuageuse qui recouvre les lumières des villes et donne une texture ouatée au noir du sol, et puis de manière aléatoire, une espèce de boule de lumière s’allume ici et là et dessine les contours du nuage jusqu’ici complètement indistinct dans l’obscurité.
Pendant ma première mission, je n’ai jamais réussi à prendre d’orages en photo de nuit, pour la simple raison que la durée d’un éclair ne donne pas le temps de viser, faire la mise au point et prendre la photo… Cette fois-ci j’ai changé de tactique : je vise une zone d’orages intense avec une mise au point qui devrait être la bonne et je prends les photos au hasard en espérant avoir la chance qu’un éclair claque au moment où j’appuie sur le déclencheur (et que mon exposition et ma mise au point sont correctes). Pour une fois, après 5 minutes de mitraillage, je ne suis pas revenu bredouille de la chasse aux éclairs. Mon collègue et ami Andy Mogensen a quant à lui réussi à photographier des jets bleus jaillissant par-dessus un orage pendant sa mission en 2015, dans le cadre de l’expérience THOR, et a ainsi permis de lever le voile sur un phénomène jusque-là resté très mystérieux. A la suite de son cliché, l’ESA a fait installer l'équipement ASIM sur l’extérieur de la Station, capable de mitrailler les orages (longueurs d'ondes différentes et 720 photos par minute !). On a encore beaucoup à apprendre sur la foudre, notamment comment elle interagit avec notre atmosphère et influence notre climat.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Thunder Mountain, Glacier National Park, Montana
Finally getting around to processing the horizontal version of this amazing sunrise from Glacier National Park. Single exposure with the D800 processed using my own special blend of image development for tone and color in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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After Curt and I hiked the Panamint Dunes, he took off for home, so I poked around for a few more days. Needing to use "the facilities" I headed over toward the Boxcar Cabin.
I know, TMI.
The thunder rolls, and the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold on a sleepless night
As the storm blows on out of control
Deep in her heart the thunder rolls
Sometimes the prairie full moon can be incredibly bright.
Near Thunder Creek, Saskatchewan
August 2016
Scattata durante la tempesta di fulmini su Agrigento con la mia fedele digitale.
Camera: Canon PowerShot D10
Exposure Time: 10 sec.
Aperture Value: f/2.8
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed Rating: 80
Post Process: Photoshop
Dark blue roan, band stallion, Thunder Cloud. (2001)
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Medora, North Dakota.
June 6th, 1965
South Vietnam
Marcus’s Log, Entry #4
Nothing. That’s all there had been for the last six days. They had abandoned us, forgot us, left us to die in the middle of the jungle without a way out. Well, now it’s just me, I guess. I had been trapped here in the jungle, watched by hungry eyes that were just out of sight. Just the fact that my fire illuminates the page that I’m writing on it a constant reminder that I’m lost in an unknown world. They’d probably mark us as K.I.A. in a folder in one of countless file cabinets, and that was that. They wouldn’t bother to come looking for us, just ‘cause, ‘cause war is never fair. When we had received the call to rendezvous at the clearing, I had been part of the patrol deepest into the jungle. Seconds later, we heard that we had ordered a strafe run on the entire jungle, and that we had to make it back to the choppers for evac in a matter of minutes. Then, we were running, breaking through the underbrush and leaping over fallen trees back to the LZ. While we were running, one of our soldiers tripped and sprained his ankle, and we had to stop for a second to pull him and get him moving again. We made it to the clearing just in time to see the last chopper disappearing of the treetops of the jungle. Then came the thunder.
We could hear the plane before we could see it, so deafening that mt shout for everyone to scatter was completely drowned out. I turned to run, but the ground had started to shake, and I knew that the bombardment had begun. I had only taken a few steps when I looked over my shoulder to see the plane soar over us, disappearing as quickly as it had come. I knew I only had a matter of seconds. I had just made it to the beneath the shelter of the trees when the clearing behind me exploded. Again and again. Then, an explosion behind me through me into air,flailing wildly until I landed hard on the mossy floor. The last thing I remember before I black out was the blinding white the enveloped me from the explosions as the jungle crashed down around me.
That’s where I’d trapped for the last six days. My ears had been ringing ever since I had woken up, in the midst of a place that had been torn apart. Since then, I have been traveling north knowing that if I just kept walking, I would find a way out. Even though the jungle seemed like endless tree after tree, I knew that if I kept moving, If I survived long enough, I would finally make it out the Vietnam jungle. What ever happened to me after that, I had no idea. I might be captured, tortured for intel, but honestly I couldn’t think about that for the moment. If my family and friends missed me, or if they even had any idea that I was trapped, left, and forgotten. Again, I just cant think about that. Right now, my priority was to make it out from under these trees alive. If I die, I don’t think I’ll ever be remembered. After all, I was just a pawn in the militaries overall strategy, just to be used and be sacrificed in the end. But the only way to be remembered was to leave the jungle, to return alive. So, I just have to keep moving, and eventually with every step, I’ll find a way out.
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My entry into the "Vietnam War" category in my MOC-Off with [Lego Junkie]
I know these might not look like spectacular pictures, but they’re incredibly difficult to take. Ever heard the expression “quick as lightning”? So in the same split-second, you have to spot the lightning bolt in a sea of black clouds from 400 km above, aim at this minuscule white dot with your viewfinder and a big 800mm lens, focus (in the dark), and shoot. Needless to say this is impossible unless you figure out another technique… Oh well, maybe looking at the thunder striking the planet from above the massive night clouds doesn’t impress you, but I find it excessively beautiful and menacing, like swimming in deep dark waters at night and wondering what’s below you… Huge respect to Andreas Mogensen who only spent eight days on the ISS but still managed to capture a lightning strike and an even more elusive blue jet erupting upwards from it. His photo (well it was a video still actually) encouraged the "space storm hunter" ASIM facility that is now outside the Columbus module. It is purpose-built to take pictures like this, but they are not so beautiful as they use different wavelengths that are much more interesting and useful to scientists. Also it takes 720 pictures of our planet a minute... continuously, how can we compete with that? Come to think of it, Andreas must be an extremely lucky guy! ;) ASIM is revealing things nobody knew about thunderstorms, explaining new phenomena and discovering new ways of how lightning is interacting with our atmosphere and influencing our climate! www.esa.int/asim
Survolés de nuit, les orages sont spectaculaires, à la fois magnifiques et un peu inquiétants – un peu comme nager de nuit dans des eaux sombres sans savoir ce qui se cache dans les profondeurs... On devine la couverture nuageuse qui recouvre les lumières des villes et donne une texture ouatée au noir du sol, et puis de manière aléatoire, une espèce de boule de lumière s’allume ici et là et dessine les contours du nuage jusqu’ici complètement indistinct dans l’obscurité.
Pendant ma première mission, je n’ai jamais réussi à prendre d’orages en photo de nuit, pour la simple raison que la durée d’un éclair ne donne pas le temps de viser, faire la mise au point et prendre la photo… Cette fois-ci j’ai changé de tactique : je vise une zone d’orages intense avec une mise au point qui devrait être la bonne et je prends les photos au hasard en espérant avoir la chance qu’un éclair claque au moment où j’appuie sur le déclencheur (et que mon exposition et ma mise au point sont correctes). Pour une fois, après 5 minutes de mitraillage, je ne suis pas revenu bredouille de la chasse aux éclairs. Mon collègue et ami Andy Mogensen a quant à lui réussi à photographier des jets bleus jaillissant par-dessus un orage pendant sa mission en 2015, dans le cadre de l’expérience THOR, et a ainsi permis de lever le voile sur un phénomène jusque-là resté très mystérieux. A la suite de son cliché, l’ESA a fait installer l'équipement ASIM sur l’extérieur de la Station, capable de mitrailler les orages (longueurs d'ondes différentes et 720 photos par minute !). On a encore beaucoup à apprendre sur la foudre, notamment comment elle interagit avec notre atmosphère et influence notre climat.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
513B6281
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park ON, 30 Aug 2020
Edited these with Shotcut instead of Vegas. Still learning the ropes.
J. Poulsen Shipping A/S, THUNDER BIRD (IMO 9318943) in the Firth of Forth approaching the Port of Rosyth.
Tug FORTH PIONEER (IMO 9844368) is assisting.