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Post by nikkortorokkor on Oct 4, 2008 20:11:58 GMT -5
Spring Storm, Fernside, South Island, New Zealand Braun Super Paxette III Automatic Enna Lithagon SLK f3.5/35mm Fuji 200 Print. Some vignetting!
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Post by Randy on Oct 4, 2008 23:48:00 GMT -5
Looks nice for a storm front Micheal. It's been so dark and gloomy here in North Eastern Ohio this week I think mushrooms are starting to grow in my yard.
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Oct 5, 2008 1:36:18 GMT -5
Commiserations on the weather, Randy. Looks can be deceiving. Here in the Downunder storms come up from the south. When we see big cumulus nimbus coming up from the south like this, we know we're in for a spanking. The shot was taken facing east south east and if you look closely you can just see the squalls brushing the coast, even at this res.
I tried to get ahead of it for more shots, but 10 minutes later it overtook me and I was driving in pouring rain.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2008 11:13:22 GMT -5
Michael:
I really like that picture--the road, the fence, the sign and the clouds in the distance. Wonderful balance and color.
Wayne
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Oct 13, 2008 3:59:06 GMT -5
Thanks Wayne.
Roads, signs hedges and sky are recurring subjects for me - usually without much success. This is the landscape I grew up in and it is, on the surface, quite dull - intensively farmed pasture increasingly given over to dairying. Yet when the right conditions arise, it reveals a subtle beauty to reward the observant. Making an image that expresses my relationship with my homeland and which others find pleasing is a very satisfying experience.
Oh, and doing so on a 1950s "junk store" camera just adds to the experience - an admittedly nostalgic link to my grand parents who were stalwarts of their local camera club.
M.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2008 8:24:30 GMT -5
I've found that often we see the scenes around us as "dull" because we take them for granted. The trick is to look at them using the eye of a visitor rather than a native.
W.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 13, 2008 13:16:02 GMT -5
Storm cloud over Wascana Park, Regina, Saskatchewan. August 1974. Canon Ftbn. Fujichrome 100ASA After the storm. From my office window. Spring 2008. Pentax K100D. 18 to 55 mm kit lens. Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2008 15:33:35 GMT -5
Mickey:
I really like the top photo. Looks like a head of cauliflower
Wayne.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 13, 2008 17:38:24 GMT -5
"I really like the top photo. Looks like a head of cauliflower"
Darn! Found out.
Mickey
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Post by John Parry on Oct 13, 2008 20:43:06 GMT -5
Mickey
If I'd seen that I'd have been loading the family in the car and heading for the nearest deep tunnel !
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Oct 14, 2008 6:26:57 GMT -5
Nice pair of pictures, Mickey. I particularly like the first one, it's really spectacular.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 14, 2008 9:46:40 GMT -5
Thank you all.
Out on our prairies which are composed of hundreds of thousands of square miles of gorgeous, unlimited flatness and horizons as distant on the land as they are on the sea, anything that is vertical appears to be much larger than life. But this cloud formation was, indeed, spectacular.
I recall a peculiar sense or aura of something impending but the storm missed us so I don't know if it lived up to its advertised potential.
Back then we were too naive (ignorant) to flee from what might have developed.
Mickey
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