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Thanks, Cloverpatch! Your photo above is a splendid example of beauty not lost in Black & White, while your images in color below are pure golden globes of wonder. It looks like you get plenty of big sky there for capturing wild weather.
Your Ballerina has some followers, Hans, drawn to her luminous dance.
Fans Of The Ballerina With FireballA fantastic webby wonder, Hans. And I think I see a bee of light (a light bee-ing?) caught in Michael’s Duplicatus above, while below, the weave looks to be of the sheerest fabric.
Veiled SunsetAll of the above — Extraordinary! And anyway you spell it, Aspersatusitas inspiresus. But speaking of nomenclature, what would fit for the effect shown below. I’ve seen this type of spikiness in the clouds before and thought perhaps the sky was hinting my hair could us some gel. (At this age, I’m really too old, yet still too young, to be reaching for the blue tint.)
Blue SplashLove those distant travelers, Hans. Hope to see them over here soon.
Alec, I hope that millstone keeps grinding them out.
And stunning photo, Michael. Here in California, we had a softer peachy glow last night…
Cloverpatch, your image with the barbed wire fence looks as if someone thought those frisky KH clouds could be corralled. Imagine that!
Alec, thanks — the reflection explanation made perfect sense. And yet I couldn’t imagine where it would have come from until this morning when I noticed my iPhone, lying screen down on my desk, right below the image in question on my computer. And VOILA, mystery solved! The closed car window had captured the reflected white area surrounding the dark circular camera lens while the reflection of the blue case blended perfectly with the sky. A giant powdered sugar donut in the sky? No substance to that one — no calories either!
Thank you, Hans, and the conclusion you and your biologist friends reached could not be more true. Beauty abounds! Sometimes when we’re surprised by it, the body responds in telling ways — breathing shifts, eyebrows rise, a smile forms, and then there’s that stillness in which the ordinary moment becomes “liminal” (defined as that moment when a person has stepped across a psychological threshold out of the ordinary world of existence into a new place where they are open to experience, something undefined).
You have The Complete Proof! And if Santa has indeed fallen, he’ll have had the ride of his life through the clouds. Below, The Curve Crosses The Pond as well.
Relieved to see Lacerta (several posts back now) made it across the pond, Hans. As you can see, the voyage was not without its challenges!
Dangerous PassageCephalopod! Exactly what I saw as well, Alec, in Michael’s gorgeous image (which I would love to bring into a dream with me). And Hans, referring again to your comment (Halos thread) on where beauty may be found, it is indeed in all directions, Left And Right, Above Or Below.
This collection is really outstanding. Even the greys are luscious here. And after the grinding, all is calm, all is bright.
The game is fun, Alec! And it certainly has me looking up in a new way, so thanks for the inspired play. Having a forum topic devoted to contrails has definitely peaked my interest in them, although ever since Hans posted earlier photos of showing Crow Instability Vortex (like his beautiful “Just for now” image above), I’ve been looking much closer for the effect. Haven’t captured any just yet, but that doesn’t diminish the fun of searching.
While I can’t add to the game’s collection, here’s a mystery that I’m not sure where to post (but it does at least have a contrail in it). There was a tiny detail below the contrail I noticed while riding in a car a couple of days ago. It was too far away to capture, but I took a shot anyway. Later, when I downloaded the image and tweaked the contrast just a bit, this subtle powdered sugar donut emerged. Any clue as to what this might be? Had I known it would appear, I’d have taken another shot without the traffic pole smack in the middle of it.
Fans Of The Ballerina With Fireball
Veiled Sunset
Blue Splash
Dangerous Passage
Flying Down Memory Lane
