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GOG Rainy Sunset

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Posted by James H Egbert on June 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM
GOG Rainy Sunset
Just a new thing for me, seeing I don't normally go where there's any lightening remotely in the area. I normally don't go to the Garden at Sunset either.

This one is just a test shot from the series i was working on. I have a ton more I'm looking over and picking through. I took about 224 shots before it got too bad.
Posted by Bob Falcone on June 23, 2009 at 9:18 PM
The Garden isn't typically a good sunset spot, but the lighting under the rain clouds makes this the exception. Now, if you can get that lighting again when the yucca are in bloom....
Posted by Dan Walters on June 23, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Great shot! Love the cloud and detail in the yucca.
Posted by Paul Wegemann on June 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM
This is wonderful, James! I love the comp and there is a "richness" (for lack of a better description) to this that I find really appealing.
Posted by James H Egbert on June 23, 2009 at 9:56 PM
I know we've all seen lightening Strikes, but have you ever seen a Rainbow Strike?
Posted by James H Egbert on June 23, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Zapped Again
Posted by Paul Wegemann on June 23, 2009 at 11:28 PM
These last two really deserve their own post! Incredible!
Posted by Bill Brennan on June 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Great work. Each one is a keeper.

Bill Brennan
Posted by Stephen Trainor on June 23, 2009 at 11:45 PM
These are great - I particularly like the first with the yucca (the three blooms roughly corresponding with the three main sandstone forms - very nice!)
Posted by Jesse Speer on June 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Really sweet James. Love #2.
Posted by Jack Brauer on June 24, 2009 at 12:50 AM
#2 is awesome! Very dramatic.
Posted by Tien-Chien Chen on June 24, 2009 at 1:33 AM
love both #2 and #3!
Posted by Kurt Bowman on June 24, 2009 at 2:11 AM
Like them all James, but number 2 is a wowzer!
Posted by Rajeev Thomas on June 24, 2009 at 2:24 AM
James...excellent work!!! I really love all of them.... :toast:
Posted by Stan Rose on June 24, 2009 at 3:12 AM
Those first too shots are awesome, James--great original takes on the Garden!
Posted by Cliff Young on June 24, 2009 at 4:29 AM
Wow, James, these are great shots! I particularly like #2 and 3 - 2 for the dramatic menacing clouds and "rainbow strike" and 3 for its composition. Well done :smile: Cliff
Posted by Nick Moore on June 24, 2009 at 8:59 AM
#2 gets my vote too, that one is awesome James. Boy it's been too long since I've been to GOG!.
Posted by Todd Caudle on June 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Heck ya!
Posted by Paul Gana on June 24, 2009 at 2:35 PM
wicked shots, especially that first one for me. I love the second one too, but I just don't like the couple of hot spots in the clouds towards the top, but that is just me being picky over those kind of things :biggrin: