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Jan, Greetings! Fallstreak , Cavum, is the cloud of the month so allow me to continue what you’ve started here.
Heres a shot of a cavum that stretched from one end of the Valley (west) to the other ( yes, east). It was over the north side of the Valley, exactly where many a jetliner can be seen thru out the day. So its a safe assumption this cavum was created by a jetliner stretching 50-60 miles thru the altocumulus.
Keelin..Thats the thing about clouds,,you have to always be looking up to see them.
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Arizona Asperitas#124
Cumulus forming around Red Mountain is pulled up by the overhead passing of Asperitas.
Its good to hear clouds have returned to your skies Keelin. Monsoon season seems to have lost its pump here. Geesh a week without cloud after daily build up of nimbus leaves me befuddled. Historically one more Nimbus blast around mid Sept happens so heres hoping as long as its nothing like Florence. Yea, weather here never hangs around for long.
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Good One Keelin! Ha!
Hans The shot got the bottom cut off in order to fit. Some of the sidewalk , the foot of the near lampost, etc had to go. That also threw off the proportional curve leading the eye to the lenticularus but thats minor compared to the clouds themselves. I guess I am one of those who likes everything in a picture doing something. If its not doing something get it out of the shot.
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Yes Keelin a build up of many layers of color for a soft landing..as perhaps Rothko might have had it..
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I’ve had the discussion with GWW some years ago. My perspective has not changed. If one needs earth reference points to view clouds, fine. To me, including “land” in a photo with clouds makes the photo a ” Landscape”,,and ought to be viewed and evaluated accordingly. Nothing wrong with that.
A photo of cloud with no earth reference points,besides a sky…is a cloudscape to me. To me, earth reference points act as an anchor to the imagination that wants to soar with the cloud. Earth reference points hold one to the ground and thus hinder the mind from traveling amongst the clouds. Also, for me, after a while earth reference points have so little to do with the cloud. Does a lenticular become less than a lenticular if there are no earth reference points to judge its height width and circumference? Same can be asked about any cloud. A Cumulonimbus is huge compared to a cumulus humilus. I don’t need earth reference points to tell me that. A lot of sunset pics recently demonstrate Earth really isn’t needed to see the beauty of nature in cloud an light.
I have no problem including earth in cloud shots when I have to tho. For crop reasons there may be little other choice. The above lenny shot was taken over a year ago and I decided to not edit out earth because it would be too labor intensive to do so. Nuthin to do with GWW. Funny thing..a recent lenny shot submitted to Gallery from the same shoot, I used earth reference points to draw and direct the eye into the photo…Due to size limitation that part of the photo got edited out. Oh well..
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