Black & White Thread Volume V
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The Black & White Thread Volume IV has ended already with post number 100 from Michael: “a little fun with a spot”. Threads must end and threads must start anew.
In Swimming Through The Waves your swimmer is defying the high waves, Keelin, despite of his assumed age. Was it Neil Young or was it Van the man? He is not doing a moondance. It is only rock and roll but I like it.
Now I like to continue the swimming theme for the opening of Volume V of the Black and White Thread.
I wish you could swim, ….. like the dolphins can swim.
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Ha, over and over surprising posts! I always like to devote some notes about them. First the view through a veil on a Landscape of Uncertainty. A very creative and witty reply with the granularity you applied, Keelin. Then the lonely Hyena is a great finding and composition. The tangle of Matter and Ghost is a perfect title for the lovely cloudy chaos from Keelin. And secondary it made me learn that there exists an interesting book about the late Buddhist singer. I have great memories of some performances of him.
I like to post a follow up on each theme having collected the last two months a lot of black and white candidates impatiently waiting to be shared. So ….
Moonlit Prairie
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Felicity, welcome! You’ve captured an impressive “Lennie” with a good dose of drama and mystery. Thank you for sharing it with us, and to echo Hans, we hope you will continue to post here.
And Hans, I enjoy the notes very much (bedanken!) for the mind-sparkling way they work to weave the threads of our communal tapestry.
From both you and Michael, I’m still learning to see the essence (what IS the matter) of cloud beauty drilled down — which in turn, not surprisingly, reminds me of the succinct writings of Lydia Davis. It’s become a fruitful exercise in stretching the mind as well.
Mind Over Matter
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Thank you Keelin for your kind words, and even in Dutch. Hartelijk dank! So let’s weave further on our communal tapestry to speak in your own well found words. Mind Over Matter and An Entirely Different Matter are both perfect abstract continuations on the theme.
A Matter Of Light
PS, a somewhat different matter: after I found a follow-up in choosing a title that matters, I found out that “a matter of light” leads via Google to the site of an Australian photographer (link). He has a gallery dominated by pictures of mainly animal life, but also just a few abstracts that come close to our cloud abstracts. Furthermore he published some tutorials on photo-shopping, for example about noise reduction. I think they are interesting to know about.
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This Is Not a Sunset but for some reason I see this large animal, can ‘t help….
Apart from this strange inclination of the mind to see things in clouds it really is a beautiful abstract with great play of darkness and detailed bright whites, thus giving the feel of a zodiac sign. Intriguing.
For some reason this elephant seems to follow me. I am not paranoia and it is not a pink one.
Circus Cumulus
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Thank you Michael. And …. your feelers made me remember the ingenious Cloud Doodles, you once introduced. I see some resemblance with Feelers although there is also a lot of difference, mainly in the cloud-context. It is nice to scroll through the pictures of the thread Cloud Doodles again and reread you text. Next one comes close…
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Talk about surreal! Who or what might be tethered to that bright chain of light you’ve teased us with, Hans? A blond artist hovering above an alien planet? The mind can’t help but wonder. Be that as it may, I like your image very much!
And Michael, glad to see you found a way around a posting glitch. Let’s see if this one makes it.
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Thank you Keelin! On my turn I enjoy your interpretations and wonderment of my and Michael’s pictures very much.
Funny title for your picture Not Taken Through A Muddy Window, but I would bet it was! Again the mind can’t help but wonder.
As to the glitch I don’t have a clue, Michael. At this moment I don’t have problems with posting a picture since the image upload functionality has gone AWOL on the 11 th of August. That temporarily glitch was fixed almost the same day. Earlier this year I had the problem that several posts did not get published. Then I discovered that publishing in visual mode of a text with a hyperlink and an image added caused the problem. I had to edit the post with the link in text mode and that way the post was published well. So now, having only a picture and text I usually post in visual mode and that works well. When I have a link to be published I enter it in text mode. Editing afterwards in visual mode is possible I discovered. So far so good on my side. When this doesn’t help and you have a clear reproducible glitch I can advise to document it including screenshots of the steps you make together with applicable messages and send it to support. I experienced that Gavin will respond to solve it. I hope this helps.
Trespassing?
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Thank you both for kind words. Not Taken Through A Muddy Window was a surprise for me too. The color version was so cold looking with its steely blue and grey hues. It was just for a lark that I cast it in B&W — and liked the results. More of that playful exploration we’ve talked about here.
Speaking of play… Hans, your titles continue to leave me giggling. What is your Trespasser up to? Some kind of Misadventure? He’d best watch out and not step in the Sticky Stuff.
PS: Michael, caught your ghostly apparition on the CAS gallery. Wow!
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True Irma has not been amusing but engrossing ,yes, heart breaking coming in on the heels of Harvey and now Jose also spreading havoc in the region. The size of these cyclones is disturbing. And what a disturbing path Keelin has us walking. Ewww!. but surprising! I have never conceived of such when scanning the clouds., the sticky stuff! ;)
Heres one I forgot about. I hope it reproduces itself well here. I get lost in it.
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I agree Keelin. Conversion to black and white together with some photo-shopping often surprises. It is the same I experienced from the moment I got inspired by Michael to do so. Real fun. And then some text follows that seems to be the reason that the system could not create the reply and thus I had to remove it. I found this out by trying. Nothing harmful in the text imho. Something about a smiling trespasser having stepped in something (just rephrasing).
Are there any more pictures you forgot about Michael? It reproduced very well. It is a very peaceful scenery to get lost in.
Less peaceful are the cyclones. Luckily Jose has chosen a path away from the islands. At this moment Irma is ravaging Florida. What terrible powers seemingly harmless elements like water, wind and warmth are able to make loose! In this case they produce no innocent clouds for sure.
Havoc
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Seeing the unfathomable devastation wrought by Irma and her cohorts sent me searching through archives, hoping to find an image that would offer a resting place at least for the eyes. This one’s a fair bit grainy, but it has a certain softness, like the comfort of a warm blanket. [ And no sticky stuff, Michael! ;) ]
Hans, glad to see you found a work around the posting problem. Speaking of such oddities, I noticed my previous post must have gotten “stuck” along the way and ended up out of sequence.
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Both beautiful textures!And I suddenly have this perception of the poor John Barleycorn:
They’ve hired men with the crab-tree sticks,
To cut him skin from bone,
And the miller he has served him worse than that,
For he’s ground him between two stones.Sounds harsh, but a very lovely song!
This will be my last contribution for a bit more ten two weeks. In he meantime I will be able to check the forum but can’t upload new ones only comment. For sure I will gather some new material. To be continued.
Blond II
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Michael, if your Water Tooth were to be found on a gallery wall, no doubt I’d be looking at it for a long time. There’s great mystery there and the title just adds to the intrigue.
Meanwhile, I can’t help but wonder where one might find such a thing. Could it have belonged to this Lagoon Creature? She does appear to be searching for something. But don’t worry, you can see by her smile, she’s friendly, and perhaps only hoping to find an offering for the tooth fairy.
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This is really fun, looking back to what you two published the last two weeks. Pictures and text as well. Thank you both. I love them all.
In July 11 I see this face of a large headed alien. A very intriguing picture, Michael! And the little figure in It’s Not What I Was Thinking is fantastic!…. and even showing up again in the pictures of Keelin.
I am happy to contribute again.
Take Off
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Thank you for your kind words Keelin. After he sound of the welcoming wispy cloud song by your Funny Figural and of the thundering waterfall maybe you can now hear the sound of the water flowing gently after having been landed.
It was a good start of the day today with the ghostly apparitions from Mike in the Cloud A Day.
And lately I saw some changes in the cloud library of the cloudspotter app and discovered two great examples by Mike for lacunosus and lenticularis.
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Hi Hans!, I trust you enjoyed your vacation. Yes, Keelin and I have been having fun in the B&W. I am not a user of the Cloud App, not having a smartphone , pad, etc so I have very little understanding of what is going on there except the cloud a day but again, i see all that on my desk top. Thanks for the heads up!. And I notice your parhelic circle experience is in the Gallery! I wish every cloudspotter the profound ” Awesome” Astounding” experience of witnessing a parhelic circle. Its a sublime expression of beauty by nature.
and heres
A Slice of Cloud
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Thanks Michael. I enjoyed my vacation and the parhelic was part of it. And the 120 degrees parhelion on top of it! This was the first picture I took in a series of five pictures (here also doing well in B&W) of the great fibratus sky wavering over the trees when I saw this bright spot between the trees.
That was the moment I took a wider view and discovered its nature by noticing the parhelic together with a bright sundog. Quickly mounting the wide angle was necessary to capture the whole picture. It was a matter of minutes before it disappeared. These atmospheric optics are sure sublime to experience!
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Ah! Sorry to mislead, Hans. I was actually referring to Michael’s featured Cloud of the Day. My error brings a question for Gavin though: Could the Cloud of the Day photos that have been taken by CAS members be added into the Gallery?
Volume V has been delicious (Perfect Rice and all) — and I trust Volume VI will be a delightful romp for the senses as well. The Arrow of Time is flying swiftly!
Meanwhile, the great wind eraser made a pass at a lingering contrail… but missed in a few places.
What Remains To Be Seen
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A Tangle of Matter and Ghost
Not Taken Through A Muddy Window
Beneath The Surface
It’s Not What I Was Thinking
Waterfall Landing
Ægir’s Cup
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