Friday's Focus - 2019/04/19 - Clouds

[JimFox]

The Focus this Friday is on Clouds!

We are looking for Landscape Photos where Clouds dominate the photo, or it could simply be a photo of just clouds and no other objects.

I will start, just add your photos to this thread.

Jim

PS. I know I have a photo or two of just a cloud.... I will try to find them later today.

 

[Ken Rennie]

I may have posted one or more of these before but they just fit the brief so well. From a cycling trip to Bavaria.

And lastly from the same trip and this time I got very wet.

 

[Carlo Didier]

I think this qualifies ... Loch Lurgainn and Stac Pollaidh, Assynt, Scotland. Ah, yes, and clouds

 

[Carlo Didier]

I may have posted one or more of these before but they just fit the brief so well. From a cycling trip to Bavaria.View attachment 17647 View attachment 17648
And lastly from the same trip and this time I got very wet.
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Super dramatic! Excellent subject for B&W.

 

[rfkiii]

Grand Teton National Park, 2018

Blacktail Ponds Overlook, Grand Teton NP, 2018

Grand Teton National Park, 2018

Grand Canyon North Rim, 2016

 

[AlanLichty]

I have some that might work for this:

Table Mountain - Columbia River Gorge.

Thunder Island Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Apr 19, 2019

Table Mountain peeking out from the clouds at sunrise. Columbia River Gorge.

Harris Beach, Brookings, OR.

Harris Beach Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Apr 2, 2019

Early morning light at Harris Beach State Park, Oregon. Edited to lighten up the ground layer.

Ruby Beach

Ruby Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Feb 23, 2019
• 1

Early morning colors at Ruby Beach. Olympic National Park, WA.

Second Beach:

Second Beach Sunset

• AlanLichty
• Feb 9, 2019

Some evening color along Second Beach on the Olympic Peninsula.

Jackson Lake Sunrise:

Jackson Lake Sunrise 1st Light

• AlanLichty
• Nov 8, 2018

First light of the day falls on the Grand Teton as seen from Jackson Lake.

Battery Point Lighthouse, Crescent City, CA:

Battery Point Lighthouse

• AlanLichty
• Aug 7, 2018

Battery Point Lighthouse Crescent City, CA.

 

[JimFox]

I may have posted one or more of these before but they just fit the brief so well. From a cycling trip to Bavaria.View attachment 17647 View attachment 17648
And lastly from the same trip and this time I got very wet.
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These are great! And it’s fine to repost past photos for Friday’s Focus.

I really like the drama in each of those shots. The light and the clouds definitely help carry the shots.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Thanks for another great subject Jim.

Morning-above-house-9.29.18-(32)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 30, 2018

above my house

Pilchuck-Sunset-Drone-(14)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 19, 2018

Mt. Pilchuck sunset

Makena-Surf,-Maui,-4.16.18-(47)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 1, 2018

Maui

Skagit-Birds-3.18.18-(168)

• Jim Dockery
• Mar 21, 2018

Skagit valley

Skagit-Sunset-3.12.18-(149p2)

• Jim Dockery
• Mar 13, 2018

Skagit valley painted

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Here are some altocumulus and lenticular clouds above Antelope Valley.

 

[ckcarr]

Here's a few clouds!

 

[Kyle Jones]

Something from Two Jack Lake in Banff...

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I really love numbers 2 & 3, Craig.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I have some that might work for this:

Table Mountain - Columbia River Gorge.

Thunder Island Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Apr 19, 2019

Table Mountain peeking out from the clouds at sunrise. Columbia River Gorge.

Harris Beach, Brookings, OR.

Harris Beach Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Apr 2, 2019

Early morning light at Harris Beach State Park, Oregon. Edited to lighten up the ground layer.

Ruby Beach

Ruby Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Feb 23, 2019
• 1

Early morning colors at Ruby Beach. Olympic National Park, WA.

Second Beach:

Second Beach Sunset

• AlanLichty
• Feb 9, 2019

Some evening color along Second Beach on the Olympic Peninsula.

Jackson Lake Sunrise:

Jackson Lake Sunrise 1st Light

• AlanLichty
• Nov 8, 2018

First light of the day falls on the Grand Teton as seen from Jackson Lake.

Battery Point Lighthouse, Crescent City, CA:

Battery Point Lighthouse

• AlanLichty
• Aug 7, 2018

Battery Point Lighthouse Crescent City, CA.

I like Second Beach the Best, Alan.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Thanks for another great subject Jim.

Morning-above-house-9.29.18-(32)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 30, 2018

above my house

Pilchuck-Sunset-Drone-(14)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 19, 2018

Mt. Pilchuck sunset

Makena-Surf,-Maui,-4.16.18-(47)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 1, 2018

Maui

Skagit-Birds-3.18.18-(168)

• Jim Dockery
• Mar 21, 2018

Skagit valley

Skagit-Sunset-3.12.18-(149p2)

• Jim Dockery
• Mar 13, 2018

Skagit valley painted

Nice series, Jim.

 

[JimFox]

I may have posted one or more of these before but they just fit the brief so well. From a cycling trip to Bavaria.View attachment 17647 View attachment 17648
And lastly from the same trip and this time I got very wet.
View attachment 17649

Thanks for another great subject Jim.

Morning-above-house-9.29.18-(32)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 30, 2018

above my house

Pilchuck-Sunset-Drone-(14)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 19, 2018

Mt. Pilchuck sunset

Makena-Surf,-Maui,-4.16.18-(47)-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 1, 2018

Maui

Skagit-Birds-3.18.18-(168)

• Jim Dockery
• Mar 21, 2018

Skagit valley

Skagit-Sunset-3.12.18-(149p2)

• Jim Dockery
• Mar 13, 2018

Skagit valley painted

Now we are talking Jim! You really nailed the clouds theme here. The clouds in yours dominate to the degree that the ground layer doesn’t really even matter.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I was just able to dig these up.

Cirrus Clouds

Nimbostratus

Halo and Parhelia

Monsoon storm with hail streak.

 

[AlanLichty]

Like Doug I decided to try a really deep dive in my archives. This is from the area near the Hans Flat Ranger Station in Canyonlands where I spent 8 weeks living in a tent camp while participating in an archaeological field school in 1975. One night in July the skies went completely nuclear with a thunderstorm developing right at sunset. Scanned from Agfachrome 64 slide film.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Like Doug I decided to try a really deep dive in my archives. This is from the area near the Hans Flat Ranger Station in Canyonlands where I spent 8 weeks living in a tent camp while participating in an archaeological field school in 1975. One night in July the skies went completely nuclear with a thunderstorm developing right at sunset. Scanned from Agfachrome 64 slide film.

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Those mammatus clouds in the second one look really nasty, Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

Those mammatus clouds in the second one look really nasty, Alan.

I didn't have a wide angle lens back then - just a 55mm and a 100mm with a 2x tele-extender so the worst part was trying to decide where to shoot when the whole sky above you was lit up. We didn't actually get hit all that hard by the storm at all but it sure looked amazing.

 

[JimFox]

Like Doug I decided to try a really deep dive in my archives. This is from the area near the Hans Flat Ranger Station in Canyonlands where I spent 8 weeks living in a tent camp while participating in an archaeological field school in 1975. One night in July the skies went completely nuclear with a thunderstorm developing right at sunset. Scanned from Agfachrome 64 slide film.

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There you go Alan! It is some photos like these that I was thinking about. Minimal ground layer.