Color Thread XII
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After hitting the 101 mark on Vol11 with Keelin’s wintry blanket and Han’s Virga allow me to begin Vol12 with , what else, more Pileus. All these Pileus shots were taken from my backyard from July thru August. The first hills rising out of the desert are a few short miles north, and North Mountain is just east . So yea the clouds created trying to get over those hills, visually aren’t far away. A zoom telephoto lens helps a lot also.
Arizona Color#121
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Michael, your pileus offerings are a splendid start for Volume XII, and #124 is like a soft murmuration. Lovely!
Ruth, your Cloud Dance has joyful feel. (And might that be a mermaid with glowing head swimming her way through it?)
And Hans, I love the contrast of smooth and rippled textures and the movement in your image above. I’d like to hear the dream that was dreamt upon it.
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I like that shot Keelin. If it were mine, and it isn’t, i’d crop off 80% of the bottom blue. Just a narrow blue strip sends the eye rite to the bird, making the trees a new and necessary part of the photo. Well Done!
Your lacunosus has neat depth to it Hans. The colors are wild too!
Arizona Color#130
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Ah, Michael, I clearly see what you mean! Thank you for the excellent re-cropping suggestion.
And Hans, I think you may also be right about that fallstreak hole—a bird-created portal to who-knows-where. I only hope your Sticky cloud wasn’t waiting on the other side! It has a seductively soft appeal.
If you’ve ever sneezed into a bowl of powered sugar, this next image might look familiar.
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Ruth, Yes ,looks to me like you caught a pileus. Remember the physics involved: Quick rising columns of warm congestus compressing the water out of the atmosphere overhead..making cloud. So, yes all the ingredients are there in the shot. A fun part of pileus spotting is ..how faint is the earliest call that a pileus is forming. That one is the other side, a well developed pileus evolving in to possible velum.
Arizona Color#149
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Oh those blues! Love the sweep in Catch…, Hans, and the bubbly feeling of #156, Michael.
And Ruth, you caught the spot light just right in Anyone Have a Light — a lovely scene. And congrats on your misty morning on the Gallery! I imagine the fairies, those quiet, early risers, were already up to mischief in the woods there.
More blues anyone?
Blue Suds
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Hans , Yes ,i focused on the lower darker floccus turning the higher altocum into a soft space filler. One of those shots where I always see something new when I look at It. In processing, Lightroom has a Clarity tool. That can really pop clouds out as well. I use it religiously. Clarity was used on the photo. I generally shot color in added contrast to start with. The end result has me trained to actively seek these duplicatus opportunities when weather scurries across Arizona.
Really !, nice textures there on the cirrus(?) Looks Oriental
Arizona Color#164
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