01-26-11 – Weather

up at 5:30am local time, and there’s already 185 posts. but i threw mine in there anyway. not much else to do while i eat breakfast.
lots and lots and oodles of great photos, many breathtaking ones, the stuff that makes me just want to lovingly place my camera under a truck wheel. hardly any i won’t eventually vote for.

Much obliged Pope. Given my ‘fail’ last week, it’s warms my belly to be faring considerably better. We can thank my upstairs neighbor for the rainbow puke. She pounded on my floor to get me outside and said ‘grab your camera for this!’. I did, and about 10 minutes in the cloud just morphed into Casper. I have a nice panoramic of the whole scene; the rainbow, excepting the whiteness of Casper bleaching it out, was complete.

/edit/ //if I’m not mistaken, olavf, is that perhaps Venus above and to the left of your California weather shot? About 1 thumbprint away? Perhaps Jupiter? ISS?

CauseISaidSo, glad you liked em, and also glad I made you laugh. Your quarter-size hail shot reminded me of the story my stepdad told me about a nasty hailstorm on his street. After the storm, he saw one of his neighbours climb up on the roof with a ballpeen hammer to make sure there was enough damage that his roof would be replaced by the insurance company!
Also, Bandit is a great looking dog. Maybe we’ll see that shot in vote whoring?

ravnostic thanks for the shout-out! Honestly, kudos from a fellow photographer I respect are worth a lot more to me than anonymous votes on the internet any day. Not sayin I don’t care about the votes, or that the vote totals are meaningless, but some very wise person once told me that what is popular is not neccesarily good, and what is good is not always popular. One only has to look at the music charts to see the truth of this … Bieber fever? Seriously? 🙄

Thanks to LeicaLens for the kind words as well! I was guessing a parachute for your wind b-side, but an awning makes a lot more sense. Let me turn the tables and say that your glider on a mountain shot should be getting way more votes IMO. Love it.

/edit/ //if I’m not mistaken, olavf, is that perhaps Venus above and to the left of your California weather shot? About 1 thumbprint away? Perhaps Jupiter? ISS?

It was taken facing roughly North at around 3pm on 1/23, so surely not Venus and I did a quick look – ISS is visible in the early morning here so that’s doubtful. I dunno. I can look at the full-scale shot again this evening but I doubt there’ll be anything discernible.

Haven’t had a chance to really look at all the shots yet, but from what I’ve seen there are some good ones in there this week.

CauseISaidSo, glad you liked em, and also glad I made you laugh. Your quarter-size hail shot reminded me of the story my stepdad told me about a nasty hailstorm on his street. After the storm, he saw one of his neighbours climb up on the roof with a ballpeen hammer to make sure there was enough damage that his roof would be replaced by the insurance company!
Also, Bandit is a great looking dog. Maybe we’ll see that shot in vote whoring?

Ha! Unfortunately, there was no need for the hammer after that storm. Literally every roof in my neighborhood (and several others) had to be replaced.

And thanks from Bandit! That’s actually why I didn’t enter that one in this contest (possibly saving it for vote whoring). I’ve got another of her as a puppy that I might use instead, though. Maybe both, I don’t otherwise have a lot of vote whoring material.

Last epic as in last week? I’ll quote Perry White: “I don’t believe it!” Graphs, please.

You know I can’t pass up an opportunity to whore out my stats. 😉 But, no, aside from orionid stealing all the votes ;), last week was just slightly above average in total vote count. I was talking about the week before’s epic:

Gray is the average of the past 13 contents, #297 is the epic “Five Is Right Out”, #298 is “Color Popping Naturally” and #299 is where we are today. Almost twice the average and above even 5IRO.

I’m shooting for a 3rd place–that’s the only top ten spot I’ve yet to get.

I’ve got two of those – wanna trade for a 2nd? 🙂 Also need a 5th & 7th.

I’ll never figure out these voters. It’s still early, and I see climbers. I’m shooting for a 3rd place–that’s the only top ten spot I’ve yet to get. I’ve already bested a few of my personal stats–why be greedy?

I’ve got two of those and nothing else in the top 10. I’d gladly trade one of mine for one of yours this week 😀 .

Eden, I really like your thunderstorm & frozen flower globes. You don’t have a closeup of one of the globes, do you?

thank you much. i’m blushing. dig the ice-covered trees of yours, how they contrast with the greens and water.

no worthwhile closeups of that globe, if i recall. would have to archive dig, but i’m betting against it. i have some others from more recent storms; however, they lack the same appeal.

hey, olavf: i saw your photo of the red clouds and said, “well howdy-doo, i have one quite similar.”

so many killer photos…….

i think i mentioned this already