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Haha Keelin, I am relieved. I doubted my own mind about who I thought to have answered. Mystery solved.
you chose a funny title for your picture. I try to imagine what a celestial pillow fight might have caused. It certainly was fun!
I am sorry Keelin, to mistake you for some Patricia. I must have lost the thread so to speak. I hope you forgive me using the wrong name in my former reply.
Wow, what a play of lines Michael and what a play of light Keelin in your last two pictures. Lots of credits for both! (By the way, there is more to this than recording Michael, you must have “the eye” for it.) It is really fun exchanging wonderful impressions of clouds this way.
I will have to produce more candidates for this thread very soon. Although I don’t live in a desert like Michael (must be beautiful in a different way) we often have to endure a featureless gray of any kind of stratus or low hanging clouds, often leaving their burden of water on our heads mainly in this season of year. No complaints however, there is enough variety in the weather with the seasons (not to speak of change because the actual change on a global scale is of an unwanted, unprecedented and dangerous nature).
So here is a flower to present….
Thank you very much Patricia for your kind words. Feathers and Fur you named your picture and for sure it is Feathers and Fur. Beautiful composition! I hope other pictures of you will follow. Thanks for sharing as well and thanks for the quote of Maya Angelou’s poem.
This is one of my favourites: the cirrocumulus with the fine structure, details and rippling like here on your Thread Bare. I have been thinking about the translation and meaning of the title Thread Bare. I could not associate the delicateness of the structure with something worn off. Maybe you have something else in mind?
I would like to react with something that looks definitely worn off.
First of all welcome Barbara! This must be some sort of a ‘show and tell’ time topic on the forum.
One question: how did you manage to get your picture published in your forum profile? This feature has been disabled some months ago. I searched for the way you could possibly have done this, but I didn’t find out.
Lots of cloudspotting fun.
Thank you too Kristy. It is really nice to read that you like this thread on the forum.
Pictures indeed tend to shift personality when transformed to black and white. It is Michael who infected me with the B&W virus (of course good-natured). I missed the former thread with clouds in black and white (also started by Michael) not being involved yet at that time. The pictures of that thread are unfortunately no more available.
Also: no problem sending pictures.
And I huff and I puff …..
Love it! The picture seems to have only three or four distinctive grays and the shapes form a kind of a jigsaw cloudscape. Very surprising.
I found on the forum the former thread with black and whites started in January 2015 and ended in March 2015. It is a pity that the pictures can’t be seen anymore. It was fun reading the thread.
I mentioned some experiments with White an Black. Here is the positive of the one that surprised me.
A dissipating lacunosus formation.
And this is the negative, but has all the features of a positive of a clouded sky, a bit mamma-like.
Yeah, I imagine a distant see shore…
When making the picture with the white shadows I found out that making a negative out of a positive often results in “just a negative” , but sometimes it surprises. I come up later with an example I liked.
My found sea shell…
New years day in Holland was like in Devon, Gini. Only one shade of gray. I had to wait for the next day for some contrast and color, or is that cheating on the thread with this name? Anyway I like to contribute, so everybody happy new year to all!
That was a quite mystical one to end the year with Michael. The few lighter spots give it a special feel. Beautiful.
Unfortunately, the new year starts here (the Netherlands) with stratus and drizzle as in Devon, England. So no picture on your “New Year Day’s Clouds” thread.
I want to start the new year with a White and Black one in stead of an Black and White one. The negative has so to say the right positive appearance to start with.
Happy new year to all who reads this!
I like to read about your approach of duplicatus Michael. The example you added is very nice. I blew it up as you suggested but when looking from a distance it turns out to be even surprising.
Thinking about what my approach might be, I come to the conclusion that I am always looking for strange structures or striking compositions whether duplicatus or not, whether abstract or not. All doing by scanning the sky with my camera for parts that looks promising.
This is one taken with a wide angle (16 mm). Left under a part of the 22 degrees halo could have been seen when I didn’t make it a B&W version.
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Yeah, he seems to see us too and it looks very serious!
Thank you Michael for you explanation of the process to come up with the former subtle result. It comforts me in a certain way that it wasn’t easy at all, but the result is even more impressive knowing about the process. Often pictures of an interesting cloud structure turn out to be rather dull and grey at first sight after uploading, but you know for certain it was different when you spotted it and it is the art of getting out of the raw picture what you attracted at first sight.
You are right, digital photography is the peoples art. It opened a lot of possibilities without the cost of the analogous process. It is true fun. Experimenting, learning, repeating and over again.
Strange undulations that aspire to asperitas
Wow Michael, this picture is very beautiful. I would use the same words to describe it as you did. I am impressed and I am going to study on the way to get these grays while maintaining some sort of sharpness and detail in it. Enchanting.
It reminded me of a picture I posted to the gallery.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/photo/photo-n-3592-x-2
It is not – but almost – black and white in reality. I only deepened the shadows a bit and that gave some extra contrast but it has not the lightness of your example. It is challenging to experiment in the way you showed now. To be continued.
