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DemoTex

(25,371 posts)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:03 AM Jul 2012

Low hanging fruit, easily picked, should be shared (so here 'ya go!) ..

Sunday's post-storm light bonanza was bodacious! Some of the best light I've seen here in four fire seasons. Enjoy.

(All photos taken from the fire lookout tower at N 43 40' 1.5" W 120 59' 44.7" with a Canon 5D M-II camera and a 70-200IS f2.8 lens)







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Low hanging fruit, easily picked, should be shared (so here 'ya go!) .. (Original Post) DemoTex Jul 2012 OP
Ah yes, BODACIOUS! elleng Jul 2012 #1
Awesome Incitatus Jul 2012 #2
WOW, my dear Demotex! CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2012 #3
omg aquart Jul 2012 #4
What wonderous photos to behold!! The beauty is outstanding. Thank you..Thank you. shraby Jul 2012 #5
I noticed the same thing on the west side (Portland area) on Sunday Trajan Jul 2012 #6
Weird morning clouds for three days DemoTex Jul 2012 #9
Sigh... WillParkinson Jul 2012 #7
Like the real-estate man said .. DemoTex Jul 2012 #13
Wow!! abolugi Jul 2012 #8
the pics just get better and better! Skittles Jul 2012 #10
Naw. We get older and older .. DemoTex Jul 2012 #12
aw that's lovely Skittles Jul 2012 #15
I'm just talking generic .. DemoTex Jul 2012 #16
lol Skittles Jul 2012 #17
Bodacious indeed! Lugnut Jul 2012 #11
Incredible shots DemoTex! bluesbassman Jul 2012 #14
Gorgeous! Thank you n/t KT2000 Jul 2012 #18
Wow, DemoTex, those are amazing!!!!!!! MADem Jul 2012 #19
Yoink, the last picture is now my wallpaper.. denbot Jul 2012 #20
What an ocular feast! klook Jul 2012 #21
Amazing WilliamPitt Jul 2012 #22
 

Trajan

(19,089 posts)
6. I noticed the same thing on the west side (Portland area) on Sunday
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:20 AM
Jul 2012

Warm air, but CRYSTAL CLEAR air ..... the details in the clouds were breathtaking, and the sunlight coursing through the clouds at 8PM were amazing ..... Our family calls them 'god shots', because they look like pictures of god's 'glory' peeking through a cloud as we used to see in bibles ....

(They may actually still be in bibles, but I wouldn't know ...)

DemoTex

(25,371 posts)
9. Weird morning clouds for three days
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:31 AM
Jul 2012

This is what I saw for three mornings (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Small cumulus with virga .. virga beards! I have 20,000+ hours as a military and airline pilot, and I have never seen this before. Maybe it is not virga. Maybe it is some instability that keeps a cloud base from forming. I don't know.



DemoTex

(25,371 posts)
12. Naw. We get older and older ..
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:39 AM
Jul 2012

And our eyesight gets worser and worser so that everything looks betterer and betterer. I always think of Lisel Mueller's poem, "Monet Refuses the Operation" in cases like this:

Monet Refuses The Operation

Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don't see,
to learn that the line I called the horizon
does not exist and sky and water,
so long apart, are the same state of being.
Fifty-four years before I could see
Rouen cathedral is built
of parallel shafts of sun,
and now you want to restore
my youthful errors: fixed
notions of top and bottom,
the illusion of three-dimensional space,
wisteria separate
from the bridge it covers.
What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolves
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?
I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent. The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.
To paint the speed of light!
Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
burn to mix with air
and change our bones, skin, clothes
to gases. Doctor,
if only you could see
how heaven pulls earth into its arms
and how infinitely the heart expands
to claim this world, blue vapor without end.


Lisel Mueller

Skittles

(152,967 posts)
15. aw that's lovely
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:14 AM
Jul 2012

I have to say though that monitoring multiple computer screens on 12 hour night shifts for decades has caused my eyes to be far worse than the the usual age-related stuff - but I have a killer eye doc and killer glasses and your pics are awesome

DemoTex

(25,371 posts)
16. I'm just talking generic ..
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:39 AM
Jul 2012

I've known you so long I just lump you in with my age-group down-sides.

Skittles

(152,967 posts)
17. lol
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:44 AM
Jul 2012

my last eye exam:

Doc: what's the lowest line you can read on this chart?

Me: I can read the last line!!!

Doc: OK, read it.

Me: OK well then.....maybe not

bluesbassman

(19,310 posts)
14. Incredible shots DemoTex!
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:08 AM
Jul 2012

Views like that must make it mighty easy to get up in the morning!

Thanks for sharing your patch of the world with us.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
19. Wow, DemoTex, those are amazing!!!!!!!
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 03:28 AM
Jul 2012

Hope you're staying well and safe in your wilderness tower!

klook

(12,134 posts)
21. What an ocular feast!
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 04:48 PM
Jul 2012

Thanks for capturing and sharing these, and thanks for quoting that incredible poem, too.

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