It seems like every time I sit down on the back deck with a tall glass of bourbon and coke to enjoy the view something like this comes along and I'm forced to work. We had about an hour of the WEIRDEST light I've ever seen last night - the air was actually very yellow, with a layer of heavy black clouds on top, and a bright-white bank of pure-white clouds/fog that formed in the middle of the scene and hugged the tops of some ridges, plus there was a single thunderhead way off to the left that had a light show of its own inside itself with pink clouds - then the upper clouds would turn blue each time a lightning bolt would go off. And this was before I even took a drink...
Pretty sweet, Tim! It's interesting to see the dynamic of the clouds with everything else being relatively static. Then the lightning bolt "striking the white clouds." What a show, for sure! And I can't say that doing this from your back deck with a bourbon and coke in one hand and a shutter release in the other seems much like work to me.
Awesome shot Tim, the contrast between the cloud banks is really interesting. This must be the storm that made the Mulberry rise to 12 feet. I am off to check the water out, there has to be some good waterfalls out there today!
Hey Dominic, that is how I learned how to take pictures - and in fact the first 1.3 million or so photos I ever took were done this way - while holding a drink in one hand and a camera in the other! Those were all sorority party pics, five or six nights a week, and the girls always wanted the photographer to indulge right along with them so who was I to go against.
Hey Tom, you can use the hue slider in HCR to get rid of all that yellow in the water - just turn it green and it will look great! You should be in a boat today instead of behind a tripod...
Tim, I ended up in my boat on Clear Creek near Chester, AR. It will be photos tomorrow, since it is father's day, I have a two day hall pass from my wife!
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on June 15, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Tim, that's a pretty amazing grouping of elements you've captured. There is so much to look at here that one could spend a good long time just nursing a bourbon & coke and scrutinizing this image.
Say ... why don't you send me a nice big canvas print of this and I'll do just that!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, nature photography's 90% office work, eh? Biggest bunch 'a bull butter I ever heard...still a fantastic image Tim! Any shots (photographs that is) AFTER you had a drink?
Hey Wayne, you are about half right - it was 30 million candlepower for about 12 minutes! The bales were each lit with 2 million candlepower lights. I suspect folks in the campground were wondering who had landed and what planet they were from - the spot lights looked really creepy I bet - I had my story worked out for the ranger, but he never showed up - guess he was off hunting baby pet goats to shoot...
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11 repliesHey Tom, you can use the hue slider in HCR to get rid of all that yellow in the water - just turn it green and it will look great! You should be in a boat today instead of behind a tripod...
Say ... why don't you send me a nice big canvas print of this and I'll do just that!