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Michael Lerch
ParticipantThis Must Be Said..Any and All citizens of The Empire Should Speak Loudly to the Royals, All Of Them. In My Humble Opinion Any and All Royals Should Stay Away From Trump. Physically, 10km at least Thus Allowing for Not One Photo Opportunity With or By Trump. IMHO, If Given The Opportunity For a Photo Op With Any Royal , Trump Will Claim Proof Of Agreement With Him by The Proof of the Photo. Even If a Royal of Any Age Was To Tell Trump To Go To Hades, ,,Trump Would Still Spin The Meeting To His Favor. That Is His Style. That Is His Brand. He Lives and Acts In a Universe That Denies Any and All Opposing Views and Actions. It Takes Lawyers and Judges and Sometimes Years For Trump to Be Proved Otherwise and Even After All That, He Still Blames Any and Every Body Else. That IS HIS STYLE. That IS HIS RECORD.
The Tragedy is,,folks here say,,yes we know that about him, but we did and would still vote for him.. I don’t understand that and am just repeating it because I’ve heard these sentiments often recently and worse,,Im hearing them even more as each day goes by, I feel sorry for the children, grand children of todays parents. They will have Trump to thank for the oxygen bottle that they have to carry around. The climate will change enough ,quickly enough, that no animal will be able to Evolve quick enough, to come away unscathed. Our existence will be reduced. Unfortunately the degree appears to be likely increased by the short sighted paranoiac vision of the likes of Trump and his advisors. `
He must not be encouraged. He must not even be acknowledged and respected. He only uses people for his own aggrandizement. Give Him No Opportunity to Use The Royal Family.
My apologies to CAS for this political post..
Michael Lerch
ParticipantGeorge,,It was around 9 am ‘ish..maybe 9:30am ?? Sun rise somewhere around 7:30 – 7:45 ??.. I recall the sun being in about an hour or more above the horizon position. Again there was a blanket of alt strat in front of the sun. The bow should be just about opposite the sun,?? Hope that helps.
Michael Lerch
ParticipantI’m liking the work being posted here so much, I stumbled on some shots from two years ago that I never processed. Now seems a good time for this escapade. By the way..feel free to flip and or rotate this shot. IMHO its pretty good rotated 90 degrees and then flipped.
Michael Lerch
ParticipantYes, of course hygge, ice for halos, water droplets for bows, Thanks! , Thats the only pic i got of the phenom. Apparently they don’t last for very long.
Michael Lerch
ParticipantGPP..my goodness, I hope Lenny tipped the taxi driver well..
I think,,and i hope,all Photos that end up printed and displayed in what ever media venue are ” processed. ” I’ve gone on about the fantastic attributes of Adobe Lightroom. Professional Photogs use RAW,a choice in Image Recording in the digital camera,which is designed for maximum processing of the image for the printed page. So again, the only truth in any Photograph is the feel the observer gets from it. …I remove birds, planes, bugs , dust etc from my ” image”. I add or subtract contrast, saturation, clarity, to a image of maybe just a part of an image. I crop just about every shot. I shoot with the knowledge that I will adjust the size, the borders, the brightness the darkness, etc etc etc. I almost feel sorry for the printer,,because as in the CAS Calendar,,the original, un processed image was asked for. I knew what I went thru with that image before I originally sent it to Ian.
Gavin expressed somewhere, that he hoped we were happy with what the printer did with our photographs. I am Happy. Minor differences are not worth the time to discuss. Just as my Image is not the same as the actual momentary sight I saw,,the printers version cannot be either.
For a real hoot though,.try to imagine the Trump Logo floating above Stonehenge and or The Pyramids,,maybe the Greek Acropolis….Eiffel Tower..etc..
Michael Lerch
ParticipantYes, Clouds Are So Like Dreams, a time and place to set ones mind free. And like dreams, freedom is no guarantee of pleasant escapades..
Cloud CoverMichael Lerch
ParticipantRepose
Michael Lerch
Participanthygge..Im always brought to Magritte’s ” This Is Not A Pipe” illustration, ( Treachery of Images). Photographs are not reality. They are at best a 2 dimensional representation of reality or of something. As a collection of photographs ( a graph made by light) of Stonehenge in all its various moods and incantations the lenny shot is allowed on ” poetic license” basis. Just as the shots of “modern day”druids celebrating equinox are allowed. But neither have for a second got me thinking in terms of logic or reason. Both turn me to my heart, my ” feel” of this ancient tribute to their gods/god.. The Lenny shot works figuratively. It fails in a literal sense. The Lighting is wrong. The scale is wrong. The Physics that produce such phenomena is absent. The Witnesses are Missing. etc etc. Some of the other photos are also problematic in a literal sense, but figuratively work in the wonderful magical fantasy realm that Stonehenge invokes in all of us. Now..I got a guy over here this side of the pond, who wants to make things great again. Yet, it seems to me , Stonehenge would the best starting point for such ambition. Is there any way I can Interest a majority of the public to take this modern day Whiz ard and give him something to really brag about if he was to succeed at making great again?
Michael Lerch
ParticipantInternational…??…My Goodness,,Way Too Small Thinking Here.. I’ve observed clouds measuring Light Years Across ! Planetary! HAA! Clouds So dense Light can’t even make it thru all the better for birthing thousands of suns . Even “Universe” seems just a Tad. Cloud Appreciation..infers All types of Cloud..with Scale, left undetermined and infinite…imho.
Michael Lerch
ParticipantThanks Gavin. Sorry to interrupt your Sunday. I speak for myself; i communicate the problem so CAS is aware of it, but I intend no urgency in the communication. I mean…clouds..right? Like there isn’t enough at this site to keep one with Clouds for a long while. New additions,like a fine bottle of wine or Cuban Cigar, can only get better with time. So, anyway, Thank you much for getting to the bottom of the upload problem…I’ll have to remember that if I ever have a download problem,;)
Michael Lerch
Participanthygge…uuhhmm the lighting of the edifices and grounds does not match the ” sunset” lighting of the cloud formation so, there is an easy clue some ” photoshopp’ing has been done to the pic. I think you see it but haven’t found the words..the scale is off, to me anyway.. The Straight Ahead perspective is a subtle give away imho. Its Flat. ,,kinda what happens when your observing mind becomes cynical. Overall, its not a natural shot, opening the door to,,,unnatural…Americans have been introduced to the ” alternate facts” very recently. I think the Lenticular/ Stonehenge shot is an ” alternate fact’ Some body getting carried away with the UFO Business…and the photographer/processor decided to give it a try as well..imho. Seems to me,, such a shot opportunity would have made it into the Viral universe soon after being observed..A) because being Stonehenge, many folks would have seen it and photographed it..B) each of them anxious to get their 15 minutes of fame…Imean as an example,,the other recent Lenny phenomena in GrtBrt had at least 3 or 4 photo witnesses just here..Cynical? no..Experienced in a good way is how I prefer to see it. I’d like to see a bunch of photos from different folks of the event before I believe this one.
Michael Lerch
ParticipantToo Much Coffee Cloud
Michael Lerch
ParticipantThe newly elected President of USA has yet to grasp the basic idea that,,the cause of global warming/climate change,may still be argued about,,but the solution or at least attempt at solving the problem is within Man’s abilities and most likely, within in Man’s abilities Alone. No other inhabitant of Earth is going to do much to solve the alarming increases in average global temperature. For Americans to place hope in an administration that carried the ” Birther” banner for years among other ” fake news’ bullet points at every opportunity has been , is, and will be a difficult proposition. I along with many others have fear of the persons and venues that Do Continue the Climate Change Discussion Will be The Next To Disappear From Web Sites and Media Outlets.
Michael Lerch
Participantoh well cant get a pic to post!
Too Much Coffee CloudMichael Lerch
ParticipantYes, the Surreal! the other reality between opposites. As Rod Serling use to put it, ” Between Sight and Sound there is a place” I posted a pic or two a good while back of some overhead imaginative and I return to that place with the below. Again with the duplicatus;the frail lacunous under altocumulous.
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