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The Proof Of Ripp(le)s is like a joyful flag Keelin. Great composition. And you added some poetry as well. Great fluffiness follows by a philosophical Michael. Wonderful.
I think I Take Pictures Of Clouds
Haha, you proofed your point Alec, and that with the most obvious and simple enhancements one can think of. Not even a single Lorentz transformation was needed to achieve this convincing result!
Thank you Michael. And nice contrasts in more than one way. Great composition.
Mainly Texture, Less Contrast
So well said Keelin, I fully agree.
And, indeed it is fun reading the original forum discussions between Alec and Mike about black and whites. Some of it came back later in the notes from Michael in our conversations. The characteristic style I know from Michael is clearly recognizable in the old forum, among them the one Alec dug up and which Michael called Cloud Bush.
It is also nice to read we can expect something about rainbows, Alec.
This tiny silver crescent certainly steals the show Keelin while the confetti at the right is betraying the party that must go on.
I found in the clouds
Proof Of The Curvature Of Spacetime
Hi Alec,
So thanks to Hygge you entered the building again. The site is indeed rather changed about two years ago although not in respect to content, but mainly in respect to presentation and navigation.
It is funny to read that you started with black and whites following a conversation with Mike Lerch. Maybe you like to know what happened afterwards. Mike must have continued producing black and whites so that at the moment I entered the building they caught my eye and I got intrigued by the abstract beauties Mike produced every now and then in a single post. Following his example I started to experiment with b&w’s also and came up with some of my own black and whites in response. Eventually we got in a discussion about a separate place for b&w’s and at that moment Michael decided to start just a year ago the first Black and White Thread. From that moment we feed the B&W-topic almost every day with a new contribution and very soon Keelin jumped in. Last week Keelin just started Volume VII after about 600 posts in the former six volumes. We have a lot of fun with it and we seem to inspire each other with our abstract cloud pictures. It is nice to know how this has grown after the start in which you were involved.
I now can see that ‘Heavy’ is indeed a color image. When that was for experimenting with the concept of achromatic chromaticity you make me curious. I associate the subject – only knowing what it roughly means – with some notes I exchanged with Mikes about capturing iridescence in the ‘Not B&W’ topic of the forum. My experience is that the picture always seems to be less brilliant than reality, for which reason some enhancement seems to give a result more close to what the eye saw and the brain registered. But that might not be your reason for experimenting with achromatic chromaticity?
Hello Alec. I understand from a post by Hygge you must have been active on the old forum some years ago.
It is certainly heavy the scenery you posted and to my surprise in black and white! Very nice. I Hope you noticed the thread(s) on the forum with only black and whites?
I like to thank you – now directly – for analyzing my pictures I posted recently of what might have been a part of a supralateral arc. And I am also happy with the provided links (one by Hygge and one by you) to sites with optical phenomena I wasn’t familiar with yet.
Regards, Hans
Fan Dance would also fit perfectly in the bird theme. He is on the wings.
I like the details at the bottom left of Fan Dance, Keelin. Did they Fan Out?
O.K., so far so good Hygge.
Meanwhile I am happily studying the new found site meteoros.de, now being one of my favorites together with atoptics.co.uk and the also new found thehalovault.org. I will keep in mind that Alec Jones is able to follow what is posted on the forum.
A great take-off for Volume VII Keelin, with your long beaked bird on the wings. And looking back on the former volume is indeed a great pleasure. I also check other volumes sometimes and they always make me happy with yours and Michaels contributions. Surreal, impressionistic, abstract or ‘just’ realistic, all of these can be found together with the humorous ones.
Your bird made me spelunking in my archive – to speak in your words – and I hope I found an appropriate one for company.
Bathing Pelican
Thank you very much Hygge for being intermediary and many thanks to Alec Jones for his analysis. I think his assumption comes closest to what I saw. So most probable it was a part of a supralateral arc. Given the simulation found in the link he provided (great instructive site which I did not discover yet, so I am very grateful on that one too!) it fits with what I saw having the sun at 5 degrees height. The arc was a bit higher than sun-level.
Alec asked whether other arcs were visible, but there weren’t in a mixed sky except for a short moment what seemed to be the same at the right side of the sun. It got very quickly covered by a cloud. Unfortunately I was too late to capture this also rather colorful phenomenon at the right side of the sun (at about two hand-width from the sun so also at the right position for the assumed supralateral arc). Furthermore I did just take only one wider view, but on that one nothing relevant is well visible due to some over exposure. I learn from this that it is helpful to make as much pictures of the circumstances to be able to check assumptions afterwards.
Many thanks again to you Hygge and to Alec for his helpful analysis. I am also very happy with the provided link to the site meteoros.de that appears to cover every halo one can possibly encounter including instructive pages on which one can simulate the form en presence of particular halos by changing the height of the sun.
Quite a series of virga Michael. I found the one on the gallery posted in june 2017. For some reason is Virga Weave my favorite, but all of them have the same impressionistic quality for me. Fantastic.
Keelin, you made me curious about your found Missing Sock when Spelunking. Quite a mysterious cave you found. Lovely.
You asked about About Before And After and I know there was just an hour time between I captured them maybe (?) making a sort of subconscious connection, but not knowing or even thinking about a sheeptheme yet. The first title I had in mind for Before was Backbone, but when you came up with Shorn ‘nuff and the Basket it just fell together. So funny your Shorn ‘nuff and then what it can trigger afterwards.
The virga made me spelunking too and dug up this rather different one.
Are The Aliens Coming Or Going?
