Jan. 2015 Sunset by Scott Marvin, on FlickrThe view coming off the ferry across Kentucky Lake on a rare Beautiful January ride in 2015. Yes that is the Left upper corner of a wind shield in the pic.
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Pic of the week game
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Jan. 2015 Sunset by Scott Marvin, on FlickrThe view coming off the ferry across Kentucky Lake on a rare Beautiful January ride in 2015. Yes that is the Left upper corner of a wind shield in the pic.
Steve
GS Whisperer
As I recall, the theme for the week is "atmospheric phenomena", and in your little corner of this big, blue marble, a clear sky is rather phenomenal. :encouragement:
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Sunday night, about ten minutes to 9pm, I look out the window and notice some blue sky over there and some green clouds over there and some orange in another direction. I tell my wife (who knows about the photo contest) "I think I'm going to hop on the bike. Sky is looking interesting."
So I ride to the park two miles from my house, the highest most open place I can think of at the moment. It's starting to rain, and the color is fading fast, but the rain is not a soaker. Yet. I park the bike and take a few steps away from it, hold my camera in portrait orientation, and take a panoramic while slowly turning myself around 360degrees. I'm able to get three full panoramas before it starts raining pretty hard, but before I exited this parking lot I was soaked to the skin.
I'm pretty pleased with the three pictures. The third one features the bike a little better, but this first one shows the skies the best.
The shaft of light at the far right? While I was turning the camera, there was a flash (not a bolt) of lightning, and I guess that's how it stitched the panorama together at that part.
I rode home in a downpour, laughing because of the hard rain that I could scarcely see in. I confess, I was not ATGATT -- the only gear I was wearing was a half helmet. Nothing covering eyes or face, and riding naked-faced in the rain was painful and blinding and stupid, I know.
Oh -- when I got home, I emptied my rain gauge. It had collected two inches of rain. Sunday evening. I know because I emptied it before supper.
So I ride to the park two miles from my house, the highest most open place I can think of at the moment. It's starting to rain, and the color is fading fast, but the rain is not a soaker. Yet. I park the bike and take a few steps away from it, hold my camera in portrait orientation, and take a panoramic while slowly turning myself around 360degrees. I'm able to get three full panoramas before it starts raining pretty hard, but before I exited this parking lot I was soaked to the skin.
I'm pretty pleased with the three pictures. The third one features the bike a little better, but this first one shows the skies the best.
The shaft of light at the far right? While I was turning the camera, there was a flash (not a bolt) of lightning, and I guess that's how it stitched the panorama together at that part.
I rode home in a downpour, laughing because of the hard rain that I could scarcely see in. I confess, I was not ATGATT -- the only gear I was wearing was a half helmet. Nothing covering eyes or face, and riding naked-faced in the rain was painful and blinding and stupid, I know.
Oh -- when I got home, I emptied my rain gauge. It had collected two inches of rain. Sunday evening. I know because I emptied it before supper.
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Nice shot Rev! But don’t get yourself hurt chasing funky skies for my theme.
YES! That’s what I was hoping for. Thought I’d seen it before. Awesome!
I believe they do, Dave...
(Bold added)
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071108135522.htm
Mayhaps....That does indeed fit, with the persona of the one we call, "Redman."
Part of the fun of the game is the different interpretations of the theme, whether literal or loose. I've tried to keep the theme this week sufficiently vague. There are no wrong answers. Though I did have in mind something a bit different than just sunsets and sunrises, some of those can be quite "phenomenal". Post what you got. We'll enjoy the pics. Leave it up to the voters. It's a bit like playing Apples to Apples. some players will always pic the most literal card thrown. Others, you can count on to never do that and go for a card that is the opposite of literal, or funny, or perverse/sarcastic. That's the fun of the game. Yes, it's a picture game where you're supposed to "match" the theme, but whatever.
I think it's nice to have that room for interpretation, and I did see this as Dave's personal feeling about what he would submit, and perhaps what he would vote for. And as you said, there may be some particularly fantastic sunset or sunrise pictures that are worthy.
But lightning. Man that's a one-in-a-million shot.
And just what the heck you millennials going on about? Apples to apples?
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