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  • in reply to: Calm Cloud #187567
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Thank you Kristy and George for Your Kind Words. I have a color version taken a moment after this one. I should send it to Ian and get it in the gallery..?

    in reply to: Not B&W #187565
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    feb2215b3244Hans,,Nice work!..Photographing iridescence is a bit tricky. I’ve been spoiled here in the desert. It seems like just about any alto cloud passing near the sun iridescence is manifested but thin stratus in its variations produce a lot of color when near the sun.

    It looks like you figured out the exposure problem as well..I start at least 1/2 an f stop underexposed and may go all the way to 1.5 to 2 F stops under exposed..Depends on how near to the sun I get. And there is the danger..the sun . And thats another reason I like a Good tele zoom. I can zoom in and keep the sun out and if need be, slowly zoom out, while panning around the sun picking off the wild colors.
    Nice set up you have. I currently am using the 6D with a 28-300 lens and have a 17-40 when I need the extra wide. Yet, Im looking at the new 5’s ; the one with the built in Time Lapse (5R) is driving me crazy.

    Its been awhile since any one posted iridescence. Myself and Andy Kirk use to post quite a bit of the iridescence. Attached is a shot of a good patch of it. With the new upload ability now everyone can jump in the fun.

    in reply to: A Little Fun With Perspective #187560
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    thx for the link H..a good listen there. Yes, I like that clouds can take me to the edge of what I know and peer into what don’t know. Perhaps that is what connects us all…to go to the last extent of what we know and begin to see what we don’t know. When i became interested in Surrealism ( sur-real, meaning extra reality, beyond the day to day reality) I had physical reaction when facing what I didn’t know. Even to this day, upon occasion, that trembling from being ” freed” serves as a marker to entering the ” mystery” . It can be exhilarating,.it can be nauseating. But the telltale is,,as with photographing clouds,,I lose all sense of time. Wouldn’t that be something,,What we call our Imagination..is just our quantum selves..

    in reply to: Listening #187558
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Clouds Sound Like A Spiders Web Trespassed By a Dandelion Seed.

    in reply to: Here is another UFO … #187282
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    George,, Good Eye! May you chance upon many more wonders and mysteries! Thats my point. Yes there is all the classification ..with grades of 1-10 for each genera,species and variety, yet its all in movement and transition. Seconds separate true and false. The little cloud is no where near the same in a minute. It appears to me to be within seconds of condensing out of atmosphere. Little And very young. Somewhat transparent gives it age,imho. Therefore I’d assume its on its way to cumulus as around it. Perhaps a cumulus humilis would fit as a classification.

    in reply to: A Little Fun With Perspective #187005
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Yes, I am fascinated by how undulations juxtaposed by nature create texture, depth, space, and direction in 2 dimensional photographs. Thanks Hans!

    in reply to: Fog Dome close to the ground #185888
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    dec2015b1480L, Green/CAS

    Attached is a similar phenom I caught some time ago sliding across north Phoenix. The sight connected to the darker tones of ” Mystery”. within me. By the time I got the camera on it, it was being teased by updrafts. Yes, of course a local fog bank cut loose from its moorings.

    in reply to: How to add an image to a post #185702
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Well Darn,,,the Visual Tab is not present to click on. The former template is all I am Seeing

    in reply to: November's Cloud #185263
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    hygge,,,there is a small overlap or congruence amongst this thread. November’s Cloud of the Month is basically the Vortices created by modern wingtips on jet airliners. These vorices create nodules or tuffs that became visible in the Cloud of the Month Photo,,protruding under a layer of stratus near an airport. Well, my B&W shot also has those incremental ” tuffs” or nodules spaced along the contrail..
    Ian just showed us that the mystery object wasn’t a ” tuff’,,unless theres a bird that is so named, a blue footed Tuff?? ..anyway, it was a bird not a vortice ona contrail. Funny thing is, Ive had so many birds fly into so many of my pics, when I saw the original photo I took it as a bird without much mystery. I am of firm belief that these digital cameras , SLRS at lest,,produce very high frequencies that beckon birds from afar.

    in reply to: How to add an image to a post #185261
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    CAS/GPP I am glad to see the new way of adding a photo. Its very much faster. On my first attempt to add a photo I did encounter an issue or two. I hope to add a few comments to help any others wishing to add a photo to a post.

    Proper Sequencing of the steps taken appears to be important. I found adding text first, then adding picture to the post works. Adding Photo then adding text, for whatever reason, got me an error message. So, yes as implied, my experience is text first, THEN add the Picture. I don’t know if one can post a pic without text.

    Uploading a pic is as easy as can be. Click on image uploading should take you to your desktop file at least , where you simply click on the pic file you want uploaded, etc, pretty much like most pic uploading done these days. Yay!

    There are implications not apparent at first. Album seems to have gone the way of glaciers. I assume the restrictions imposed by the ” album” are also gone? The pic I did Just post measures 500×500 (approx) . I aim to keep the size of fotos posted within previous guidelines assuming the parameters still apply. And, I don’t want to abuse the opportunity offered here.

    Thanks for what I consider a good improvement. Its much easier and quicker. I hope the goal of maintaining speed and access here has been reached and stabilized.. Thanks again!

    MEL

    in reply to: Deteriorating Altocumulus Stratiformus Perlucidus #181959
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Thanks hygge, This photo below demonstrates the transition from the original strong formation to the weaker manifestation so well ,I’ll name in your honor, ” Hygge Fortiori” . From left , northwest, to right, east south east you can see the transition, deteriorating, and the thinness of the blanket as well. The size of the field perhaps 2 miles by 3 miles seemed rather odd; I’m use to big fields of altcu str. So the event was a bit unique in many ways and reminded me how the mundane can evolve into something special.
    color

    in reply to: Sometimes Clouds #178682
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    hygge.. Its a B& W from start..It hasn’t transistioned well.Kinda of soft but the original sky was soft as well. A Large reproduction shows less soft tho. The movement still catches my eye.

    in reply to: Waterfall Clouds #176651
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Thanks hygge…We have more days without clouds than with..but, when they do show up, its a celebration.

    in reply to: Inspirational Cloud #170759
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    hygge…Sure,its all in the physics. Moisture has to be in the atmosphere, which in the desert here, doesn’t always seem to be true. So opposing or counter air currents can be present and yet no waves made .Yes, they would be invisible. I try to see the sky in the desert here as populated by ” blobs” of moisture. There can be two towers of soaring nimbus, seemingly close together, yet only one produces pileaus, as an example. Lenticulars seem to me to travel in groups or areas. etc..A Cloud Mobile,,of undulatus rather than the fluffy cumulus..mite be interesting.

    in reply to: sometimes it looks like it was a fake #167459
    Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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    Another Arizona Sunset I Stumbled Upon
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