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George..Well that makes two of us..Its undulatus at a good distance, thanks to a very good zoom lens, but there are two different sizes of undulations going on. The finer is at a different elevation and doesn’t reflect the rays like the larger ones. I think..that makes the finer ones.. lower. Below is the same group some minutes later, therefore redder and the finer undulations darker. Even at the distance,,i knew the scene wasn’t quite like anything I’d seen before.
George, yes,you think correctly. I am currently posting pictures in all the Forum’s photographic threads ,,from 2015, 2016, 2017. Only the Jan 01 thread has a pic taken in 2018.
So,,not repeating myself makes me take a few steps before posting a shot here. I have a folder on desk top of all my shots posted. I check that before I post here. That folder also becomes sort of a ” best of”. So it gets saved to DVD/Flash whatever ,on a timely basis as well.
Un-posted shots from 2015 are getting scarce. But I have a flaw in my process. I may take say 50 pics in one session. I may process 5 or 10 of them before another session presents its self. So even when I think I’ve posted all the decent shots of a year or month,,I check the raw photo catalogue before I save them to DVD and remove from computer storage. Thats when I find some gems I have forgotten about.
Mindset effects my ability or want to process pics. I like being of a good state of mind when processing pics. I tend not to miss things and overall be more creative when I am in the right mood. Adobe Lightroom is a fantastic processing package but it takes abit of ability to get the best out of pics taken. So I don’t usually process pics for a week or so after I take them. If sooner, its usually for just one pic that has me thinking. The rest may not be looked at again until I ” feel ” like it. Now that i am retired,,that is slowly changing. I have the time to process much sooner but being in the creative state of mind still is necessary.
Therefore,,yea,,I have a large ,by some standards, backlog of processed pics nobody else has seen, and about 2 to 3 months of pics not fully processed. The sunset shots are more recent because I reached a point some time ago, that i felt the Arizona sunset/ sunrise shot had become cliche’..and were just too gawdy. So I stopped taking them. But I’m back to taking them . I’ve been surprised and enjoy the ” new” exploration of the sunset/sunrise. B&W is an endless pursuit but even those I have to manage how much time and energy I give them. I’m currently showing shots from July 2015/2016/ 2017 in B&W so hence all the monsoon. And of course, monsoon months a lot heavier with photos than non monsoon months.Color Is more challenging so I have less backlog but I’m getting better at photographing in color so Im getting a balance between B&W and Color during a session. On a good cloudy day i get on average 150 to 200 pics taken,,sunrise to sunset. I’ve been known to take over 400 shots in a day when unencumbered and weather is offering everything in the book plus some.
Maybe its what gets me out of bed every morning, but knowing there are photographs, just waiting for me to post or process ,that I think are good, lets me experience patience and the karma of everything in its own time. Maybe within a year or two I’ll be caught up. Its not necessary tho. The idea that anybody can look up and see themselves or express themselves thru the clouds is at the foundation of what and why I do this. For myself and anybody else..I hope there is always a backlog of Cloud Photographs to be seen.
hhmm..obviously today was a blue sky day..
Deb,,we were all newbies at one point or another..do you have a pic? Also the gallery has pics of just about every cloud genus and species of genus . Its a good place for visual help. There is also Cloudspotter’s Guide a book that quickly becomes dog ear’ed. Anyway, don’t worry about being humiliated. Its about The Clouds..not us.
It took me a few seconds but it didn’t get away. Moonfish!
Im finding more of these that I seem to have forgotten about. I guess I let them get away. This one is in color.
Thanks Keelin, Just now two cats raced across the roof of my house. Alls I did was hear them. How strange..
Arizona Strange#14
