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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)
elleng
(130,156 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Nice to see these again.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)Stunning! Incredible! Awesome!
And yes......Bodacious!
Thank you.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)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)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.
WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)I wish my pictures turned out half as amazing as yours. Thank you, as always, for sharing!
DemoTex
(25,371 posts)Location, Location, Location.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)DemoTex
(25,371 posts)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)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)I've known you so long I just lump you in with my age-group down-sides.
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
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)These are just beautiful. Thank you!
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)Views like that must make it mighty easy to get up in the morning!
Thanks for sharing your patch of the world with us.
KT2000
(20,544 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Hope you're staying well and safe in your wilderness tower!
denbot
(9,894 posts)Thank you.
klook
(12,134 posts)Thanks for capturing and sharing these, and thanks for quoting that incredible poem, too.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Just amazing.