This seemed to be a natural to try in monochrome. After converting it though I always have a hard time choosing which I like best. The blue sky in the color image is so deep and perfect, but all the contrast in the scene just lends itself to the monochrome image. Guess I'll just pick them both.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
It Just Kept Going
This image was made several hours after our first ones at sunrise. The cloud just kept going and going, changing and changing. We were on our way up to Castle Lake when I took this. If you've been there you know the spot.
To view it large on black click here.
To view it large on black click here.
The Ring
View this large and you will see the large round ring at the bottom of the cap. It was very interesting watching this cloud go through it's morphs. Of course Mary thought this looked like a condom. She is right too.
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Mt. Shasta With A Linticular Cloud
Yesterday a friend emailed me about great fall color in the Mt. Shasta area. Mary and I decided to go see. We got up at 5am and left at 6:12am. When we got to Mt. Shasta city it was too dark to photograph, so I pulled into the Black Bear Diner for some breakfast.
We did notice a very interesting linticular cloud capping Mt. Shasta, discussed going up, but decided there was not enough time to get there by sunrise. Then I changed our mind and we (I) drove up the Everett Memorial Highway quickly.
Low and behold we made it. We shot the cloud/mountain for over an hour. The cloud sort of blew off and the light left so we headed back down to town for some breakfast....again. 7 grain, nutty, almond waffles, yummy.
Back to the fall color. It was windy up on the mountain and down in town. Too windy for good leaf shots. The color was beautiful though. We ended up getting some more shots of the cloud later from the Castle Lake road. Mary found a bunch of mushroom shots too.
All in all it was a fun, nice day in Mt. Shasta. Thanks Dean.
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We did notice a very interesting linticular cloud capping Mt. Shasta, discussed going up, but decided there was not enough time to get there by sunrise. Then I changed our mind and we (I) drove up the Everett Memorial Highway quickly.
Low and behold we made it. We shot the cloud/mountain for over an hour. The cloud sort of blew off and the light left so we headed back down to town for some breakfast....again. 7 grain, nutty, almond waffles, yummy.
Back to the fall color. It was windy up on the mountain and down in town. Too windy for good leaf shots. The color was beautiful though. We ended up getting some more shots of the cloud later from the Castle Lake road. Mary found a bunch of mushroom shots too.
All in all it was a fun, nice day in Mt. Shasta. Thanks Dean.
Click for larger image.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Blogger Stats Are Fun
The blog stats are so cool. I'm not sure when Blogger started keeping stats, but it sure is fun to see where visitors to my site hail from. Of course most are from the United States, probably because that's where I am from. But second is Russia. Wow, who would have thought.
I only wish someone would leave comments or start a dialogue from these other countries. Maybe they can’t because of a language barrier. Oh well. Here are the next visitors in order of most visited: China, Ukraine, South Korea, Latvia (really?), Netherlands, UK, and Denmark, Germany, Slovenia (another really?), Poland. Australia and Austria used to be on the list, but not today. The stats only show the ten highest visitor count.
Blogger also lists the Browsers used to visit. Firefox (44%) is number one, then, IE (40%), Opera (7%), Safari (5%), Chrome, Netscape, Mobile, Shiretoko (what?). If you want to know operating systems: Windows (89%), Linux (4%), Mac (4%), Other Unix, and iPhone (thanks Cliff). The top ten posts viewed is also in there.
You can choose to view the stats for All time, Month, Week, Day, and Now. The Now option is not very helpful to me. I guess because I don’t have that many visitors where I actually catch them viewing my site.
But, it is fun.
I only wish someone would leave comments or start a dialogue from these other countries. Maybe they can’t because of a language barrier. Oh well. Here are the next visitors in order of most visited: China, Ukraine, South Korea, Latvia (really?), Netherlands, UK, and Denmark, Germany, Slovenia (another really?), Poland. Australia and Austria used to be on the list, but not today. The stats only show the ten highest visitor count.
Blogger also lists the Browsers used to visit. Firefox (44%) is number one, then, IE (40%), Opera (7%), Safari (5%), Chrome, Netscape, Mobile, Shiretoko (what?). If you want to know operating systems: Windows (89%), Linux (4%), Mac (4%), Other Unix, and iPhone (thanks Cliff). The top ten posts viewed is also in there.
You can choose to view the stats for All time, Month, Week, Day, and Now. The Now option is not very helpful to me. I guess because I don’t have that many visitors where I actually catch them viewing my site.
But, it is fun.
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