sometimes it looks like it was a fake

sometimes it looks like it was a fake

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    • #163304
      Maribel Dr. Illig avatarMaribel Dr. Illig
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      hello fellow cloud lovers,

      I just revamped my flickr (after years of not using it) as a backup for my cloudpics and I found this one again: morning sky

      I took it five years ago (actually on my birthday :) ) in the morning on my way to work. the whole scene looked like a fake, so I had to stop my car and take some picture. the view was breathtaking and I’ve never seen anything like this again.

      how about you? do you have cloud pictures that look like they were fakes? please share :)

    • #163406
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      I can see what you mean, Maribel. I flickred (not a correct word the system tells me but no matter) thru your album and muchly enjoyed it – it’s great to see someone appreciating their sky, and particularly the sky light. Thank you.

      • #163699
        Maribel Dr. Illig avatarMaribel Dr. Illig
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        hello Hygge, I think “flickred” is a very good word :) thank you for taking a look at my pictures. I’m glad you liked them. do you share your pictures somewhere?

      • #163874
        Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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        Well, the short answer is ‘no’, in fact I do not seem to have any pictures on this new forum, and but a few on the old one. I have two competent cameras but even if I take the odd snapshot I never seem to get round to uploading it to this forum. I only have experience of one other forum, a university forum in NW USA (it was in relation to a maple tree) and I thought that was much easier to use e.g. you did not have to worry about size, and could, I think, just link to the photo on your own computer.

        It is much easier just to enjoy the experts like Mike Lerch (‘Michael’).

    • #163909
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Maribel..Yes I do have Sunset and Sunrise shots that are so over the top, they look fake. I Live in Phoenix Arizona. They made a Sun set/rise part of the State Flag. So there is a certain amount of pride with our set/rises. And with that comes the outrageous and gaudy,,which I kno from experience to be real, but the colors are just …gaudy. One can dial the saturation dowm during the processing of the pic. Or as I’ve been working on..go with the outrageous. Since the color is beyond the normal parameters,,then why not the perspective or construction of the shot be different? Being creative with the outrageous is what I Suggest. Below is photo of a sunset I took years ago. I tried to do a Rothko version of it.Imho the Sunset is almost gone and the abstraction has become real..CLOUDS!
      color

    • #164098
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      MikeL, you are right – so Rothko-like I can scarce believe it

    • #164288
      James Morrison avatarJames Morrison
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      Nice picture. Yes, Rothokos in person can come to life in a way that reminds me of watching clouds. I wonder if there’s any correlation between cloudspotters and people who like abstract art.

      I took this picture last night. Couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The phone’s camera changed the natural colors a bit, but not by much.
      Sunset

    • #164420
      Maribel Dr. Illig avatarMaribel Dr. Illig
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      Michael, James. wonderful pictures! thank you for sharing. the picture really looks like a Rothoko piece of art.

    • #166204
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      The basics are there,,just not in a realistic fashion..CLOUDS!
      sunset

    • #167459
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Another Arizona Sunset I Stumbled Upon
      colour

    • #169280
      Maribel Dr. Illig avatarMaribel Dr. Illig
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      yesterday’s sunrise

      sunrise

    • #193576
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
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      I remembered this topic seeing this sunset lately….

      2017-01-20 Luchten_0026 ns2 klein

    • #195265
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
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      Just discovered this forum thread! Such colors I’ve mostly seen only in dreams. Below, Sunset Strip is sandwiched between sky and sea.

      Sunset Strip

    • #195268
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Yeaa ! Reality is such a Gas..Im liking the work!

      Another Arizona Wild Sunset

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    • #195342
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
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      What a fantastic Blues! These are certainly not the kind of blues the CAS tries to fight as part of “the blue-sky thinking”.

      2011-09 Lot 013 uitsnede2 klein

      A pink sky spotted at sunset in France

    • #195417
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
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      Michael: I had to point my sister in Colorado to your image Another Arizona Wild Sunset. It looks like a river she would love to paddle through the dappled canyonlands she visits. And Hans: Your pink sky image transported me back to the warmth of the womb on this cool rainy day in California. To All: Thanks for continuing inspiration and delight!

    • #195580
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Wow Hans, very Warm! So,,take some warm and some cool and you get..Unreal!

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    • #195653
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
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      First Keelin’s Sunset Strip remembered me of a topic Hygge started about the perfect Blue of Yves Klein. It comes so very close! I was flabbergasted by that one.

      Now Michael, you combine an ominous blue with the colors of the sunset. Surreally Cool.

      Here is some solid gold.

      2015-08-10 Zonsondergang_0009 uitsnede ns klein

      Watch the B&W version on the Black and White Thread.

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