It was just before sunrise and these sci-fi looking clouds rolled over my neighborhood a couple weeks ago. I never thought the camera would capture it as I was seeing it with the naked eye. The pictures still amaze me when I see them. I've had people ask me if they are real. They are real with no touch up.

whoa, amazing! i would've been expecting to see a spaceship drop out of them like in "independence day" (i think that's them movie i'm thinking of).

Got the idea for the hands/heart from TV and played around with Picnik until I came up with something I liked:



Thanks for looking!

Cher

Wonderfully caught (the clouds). Ain't nature grand?

Cher

Those pics of the clouds are awesome--that would have been a great sky to have caught on film or memory stick.

The only thing with that sky--it sorta reminds me of the scene of the weird storms in the newest version of "War of the Worlds" where the aliens zip down the lightening into the ground and into their attack vessels!! LOL

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I know I am a few days late--I have been away from home and my computer since I took these these photos this past Memorial Day weekend at the National Cemetery on the grounds of the Dayton VA Center. Photos are of some of the scenes of the grounds and of some Civil War re-enactors who were on hand--one gentleman was playing Gen. Robert E. Lee.

congrats to ms. wilkerson on brandon's use of her lovely photograph of his lovely guitar.

Sorry about the double post again--it sometimes happens that when you hit the submit button--at least for me--the screen hiccups and you think that your post went away---I had hit the button again and it did post up----obviously it posted twice----

Since I am posting this mea culpa--congrats KJ on the pic being used---it is a great photo.

PS--Jeez--I came back again and noticed that the last post was put up not twice, but three times---Sorry--and all I have to say about that is Holy Crap!!!!

ha!
i didn't even know!

we had talked about him using some of my stuff before...

cool.

(most beautiful guitar ever, btw.)

wow, how beautiful is that!
thanks for posting!
d.

nice kj!

This is an awesome photo of some really wild clouds----great photo!!!

Congrats on capturing them!

They do look sorta wicked!!!

Holy smokes, those are some great shots, people! Steve - nice stuff in Singapore! How was the trip in general?

Here are some random ones from Spring:

And more Springness:

Dude, A-freakin-mazing! I'm never leaving without my camera again...

Just a few photos I took of some flowering trees earlier this spring in Centerville, Ohio

Congrats, Kylie! How's life on the beach?

Yesterday I was taking photos around Dayton----kind of funny--I have photos of many other places but hardly any of my own hometown---I figured it was time that I did take some!

In my bushwhacking around town---I spent some time at Riverscape--a MetroPark located along the Great Miami River in downtown Dayton---I found these scenes----sort of like Kylie's photos last year of the kids at pool.

The kids just love this water fountain feature---it has water jets that do all sorts of random patterns.



Ohhh to be young and have so much energy and exhuberance again!!! LOL





I add this water feature--I think with the nice blue sky in the background it is kind of cool:

Thank you, sir. The trip was good, as every visit I've made to Singapore has been. The other trip I referenced in my last post in this thread (the month-long trek around India and Nepal) was actually even better though. Unfortunately, I've been so busy since returning that I've only been able to look at a fraction of the pics that I took.

I've been experimenting with the Orton technique in photoshop. (I experimented on photos from the spring, so if they look vaguely familiar, that's why. but I think they look better now, and I want to take some fresh photos and experiment on them soon!)

Lovely photos everyone. Marianne, whatever that technique is...I like it. Rich feeling.

thanks, Trudes. I like the technique too. it makes photos seem more romantic, I think. some of the colors are more intense, yet there's a fuzziness going on. (hmm, is that what I think "romantic" means--intensity of feeling but lack of clarity?)

Very nice photos-----they do look great----

Just beginning to open:











EXIF data (same for all):

Camera: Olympus E-500
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode

Thanks for looking!

Cher

Road Trip

Happy weekend, everyone!

Cher

Thanks Cher---roll up your pants legs and tie everything down---with all the floods and tornadoes that have been coming through your area and ours--it has been some rough days in the past week or so!!

Stay safe in the storms!

These are beautiful!

Thanks

Playing around with the Lomo edit effect in Picnik:


Thistle, Lomo-ish


Allium4, Lomo-ish


Electric Blue, Lomo-ish

Thanks for looking!

Cher

very nice, cher!

i love picnik! ... and now i'm gonna go check out the lomo effect.

great stuff.

Thanks, Kylie! Be careful ... it's TERRIBLY addictive! Have fun!

Cher

Hey you Peter Pan fans:


Heart-In-a-Box

Thanks for looking!

Cher

Cher, when did you start writing all over your pictures?? It's weird!

I was at a rose garden thing on Sunday morning, and this one basically turned out really blurry. I don't have Photoshop or anything at home, just iPhoto on the mac, and so I basically reduced noise on this and heightened the colors just a tiny bit. I love it though:

Hey guys...
The recent pictures are fabulous. I d/l'd picnik and I'm playing around with the different effects. So cool. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the great photos everybody.
Cher...I love the tall fragile stems and the intense blooms of the wildflowers in that special effect.
Bruce the garden flowers just pop color. Nice job.

Bruce, it looks like a painting. Very pretty.
It makes me miss Ault Park.

Bruce - I love the park photo as well. I've started adding things to photos since discovering Picnik. It's lots and lots of fun.

Thanks!

Thanks, Trudes. Glad you're playing around with Picnik as well. The lomo effect really does intensify the colors.

Kylie,
Is your new avatar a picture of you after you were crowned Miss Ault Park? Very pretty.

lol. no.
just a camera phone picture.

thanks for the compliment.

Here are a few from today:

The Lord said to Noah, "There's gonna be a floody, floody!"


This is in Lawrenceville, IL (my hometown). The Embarass (pronounced Ambraw) River is well over its banks as you can see.


A levee broke on the IL side and flooded quite a bit of farmland. We haven't seen flooding like this in years!


As you can see, the water's not far from the CSX tracks and rushing out from under an overpass on 'new' 50.


Lawrenceville HS, IL (my hometown, but not my HS), football field.


This is the first time in my 51 years that this bridge has been closed. Old route 50 is closed between Vincennes & Lawrenceville, IL (my hometown), and is another first for me. I was told today that the last time it was closed due to flooding was back in '50.


Third St. in Lawrenceville, falls victim to the Embarras (Ambraw) River.


Another shot of the flooded prairie in IL.


Flooded farm in IL.


This is the main entrance to Kimmel Park which is only a few blocks from the VU campus. I take lots of photos from there. The river crested today and the water was about 2' from the top of the levee.

Thanks for looking!

Cher

More flood photos (11 total):

As of Thurs., June 12th:


This exit was open Tues. when I took those photos. I have NEVER seen it flooded in my life. The waters are going down, but we're experiencing more isolated thunderstorms today and tomorrow and a few are possible next week.


Note the stop sign!


Checking out the floodwaters.


Helping out ... Lawrenceville is on a boil order due to contaminated water sources. One of the churches was sponsoring this one.


More helping out.


And more helping out.


Looks like some Emergency Management/Nat'l Guard types monitoring the floodwaters.


High water.


Third St. in Lawrencevill, IL. The floodwaters are receding, but there is more rain on the way.


More Third St.


"Irony, oh irony, upon me is not lost." A billboard near the floodwaters.

Great photos of the flooding in your area Cher----

In some parts of the country they can't buy a drop of water and in other parts----water, water, water---water everywhere but where it is supposed to be!!

just playing around w/picnik. this beautiful yard with this huge tree and rope swing were just across the street from the rapp granary in new harmony...


words, of course, by karin bergquist

Fireworks at my pool Sunday:



Followed by lightning:

dude! That first one is wicked awesome!
Don't you know you're not s'pose ta go to the pool when it's lightning out?!

~m

I was by the edge though, so if lightning starting raining down o'er me, I could hop out!

Playing around with the lomo-ish treatment in Picnik again:

nice stuff cher. i esp like 4 & 5 and that's a cool shadow effect you got on the inside of the hearts on the first one. very nice.

Thanks, Bill! BTW, how's it going with the Jeff Bird project? Congrats!! Heard anything more?