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Hello hygge..Well, the saying is..the early bird gets the worm..so it goes. The Light of early morning is a fun playground yet challenging because its short play period. Its not so much of a stretch for me tho, since my work hours have me up before sunrise anyway. I see the pre sunrise sky on the way to work thru out the year.
Yes, “Scarce to the eye” is true. First my eyes are aged. The first photo below from same shoot, indicates the physical challenge.More important than to my eyes..is ..to the camera’s electronic focusing eye,,or eyes. Digital camera needs contrast to focus.Fortunately DSLR’s have manual focus option. There is all sort of ways of ” tricking” that option and apparently I was successful. Most pics from that morning are amazing to me just because they ” held” focus. My weak eyes were only good for estimations, but my brain narrowed the possibilities to surprisingly acceptable.
Looking at these shots (above) on the computer at work , makes me want to say, Ihope viewers have high resolution screens. The pics at work looked soft. They really are sharp. Again, if possible, click and drag to your computer then enlarge them for some amazing detail.
btw..if I am correct and not missing something,,it seems we, I,,am limited to a 20 photograph album. So for every new foto I post, a previous foto has to go..A part of me likes the delicious nature of this play. So,if you see where fotos use to be, but are no longer, that is what is happening. I have all originals anyway.
Marsha thank you for your kind words. They have motivated me to start looking at what is available and how to do it, in the web at least. Maybe an agent is in order.
Since you brought it up , below is a recent shot that owes a bit to A Wyeth’s ” Christina’s World”. I create a false horizon line with the black negative space of high contrast. The 3D effect is illusion, but it works. I like to call the photograph..” Over The Hill.”
Gini, Irene, Thank You! You are making me blush. I have quite a backlog of photos. Here are some more as I sort thru them:
My apologies! I had forgotten about these lacunosus pics from a late afternoon shoot a while back. The angle of light produced some interesting effects. They are best if you drag to desk top then make as large as you can.
okay hyg..look at the upper left quadrant of the 2nd pic of 79492. You mite see a pink/yellow arc from upper horizontal to lower vertical. The area behind the arc is slitely darker. Yes that is part of a sun halo. Its a bit more difficult to see in the first of the pics below. There are two close ups and the last pic is a small patch next to the main field, that began to form but never got mature past what you see there. It dissipated from the point in time of the photograph. Part of the sun halo can be discerned in the upper rite quadrant of the first shot below.
And Bill, I would consider myself very fortunate to witness NLC. Currently I live too far south to expect seeing NLC. ( Phx Az) but who knows what travels await me? As mentioned, two close ups of lacunosus and a baby that never got any bigger. If you can drag these to desk top and then blow them up as big as possible,,you mite be in for some fun. I get lost for hours in lacunosus.hyg..Fascinating,, Cloudspotter’s Guide has Stratiformis as Species of the mentioned Clouds, and is specific to..”.extend over a large area”; widespread indeed. To illustrate, a few pics from April 2015 sightings of the Lacunosus. The first gives a scale, yes that is the Superstition Mtns, pic taken from near work. Second shot is almost directly over head with some sun halo. The field seemed to mature out of nowhere as I took pics of what you see in the first shot. Third shot is a week later at my home. As I recall, a good wind is involved in moving these observed fields of lacunosus. There is suggestion of undulatus in the 2nd shot. Both events were at altocumulus levels, that is, higher than the first set of photographed lacunosus.
Ahh! hygge, a more correct appellation of species would be stratoformis, which as you point out, can be stratocumulus, altocumulus , cirrocumulus and even noctillucent. That lacunosus is stratified, horizontally displayed and at that, manifested over large swaths of sky, makes for challenging photo sessions . The above field of lacunosus was photographed close to work, the east valley . The lacunosus was the lowest I’ve ever witnessed allowing for a better perception of depth of the cloud structure. No mamma, just that the white is actually above the grey structure of lacunosus. This display, is one of the thinnest or least dense displays of the woven. The pic below was taken a few months later almost directly over my house. The lacunosus is denser . Interestingly, the field traveled from south east to north north west rather than the norm of sw to ne.
Yes Graham, thank you for your concern and direction. I used that method on the first pic I posted on the developing New Forum. True, it works, but for me its yet another album to be kept organized and managed,,but it works…GPD..My understanding is that CAS is in development of becoming a “secure” website..hence the HTTPS and, TINYPIC service isn’t ,or hasn’t offered or received a certificate etc etc..so I gave Flickr a try and as you can see..I couldn’t get any of FLICKR’s links to work either. I’m being told that the whole CAS site gets a revamp within a month or so and downloading photos will be much easier. Yes..everything I’ve ever downloaded thru TINYPIC..is gone.
Nice Win for Poth on the Cloudy Horse ! A Fortunate venture !
I find the lighting around sunsets and sunrises produces soft greys as opposed to the high contrasts of mid day sun .
Thanks Gini! Unfortunately ,I am not a billionaire..;)
Below are three variations of seeing thru clouds that are at different elevations. I like taking these kind of pics because I’m never sure of what I’m going to end up with.
