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Weather => General Weather Discussion => Topic started by: elagache on December 16, 2014, 11:40:34 PM
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Dear WeatherCat shutterbugs, . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/kodak.gif)
A number of us like to capture our world with a camera, so I thought I would share a picture or two of winter in Orinda. Perhaps you'all might want to join in with threads of your own.
Rain is on the way and the sky this morning left no doubt:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-tKmJfks/0/L/Orange%20clouds%20around%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-tKmJfks/A)
Before the rain started this afternoon, I couldn't resist taking a photo of these picturesque group of wild mushrooms:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-qzbvhFr/0/L/Group%20of%203%20wild%20mushrooms%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-qzbvhFr/A)
The heat waves of summer seem very far away now-a-days! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/rain_happy.gif)
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Dear WeatherCat photographers,
As lamented, like my father, Christmas has become a very hard time for me to bare. However, that fact didn't go unnoticed for the rest of the household. As a partial compensation for the endless stream of things I need to do to keep the house going, I got a very nice Christmas present indeed. My old Canon DSLR had become less capable than my new iPhone 6 and that was obviously a bit discouraging. The one feature that I was really missing on my old DSLR was the High Dynamic Range (HDR) algorithm. In my 35mm film days, I got used to pushing the dynamic range of film close to the limit and my old Canon wasn't capturing what I was seeing.
I know the top-flight photographers on this forum are Nikon diehards, but Canon recently introduced a new camera with the first real CMOS image sensor upgrade in 5 years: the EOS 70D. It is an expensive camera, but I guess the household decided I really needed the pick-me-up. I had hoped the controls would be similar to my old Canon, alas, it isn't as much as I would prefer. Still, this morning I saw some interesting cloud formations. So I went to my usual vantage point to photograph the anemometer and I took my first such photo:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-n35DcTC/0/L/Clouds%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-n35DcTC/A)
I hope I had HDR enabled! Anyway, as I finally get used to this new camera, hopefully I'll start to have some even more interesting photos than in the past.
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Oooh, nice! I'm guessing currently you're pretty impressed by the low light sensitivity - I know I was when I got my D600.
Talking of wintery pictures, here's what my Davis solar sensor currently looks like. Now if you're like me, you're probably extremely critical of your photos - in the attached I could write reams on everything that's wrong with it, but in my defence, it is -4 out there and I was in a t-shirt and sandals (no socks obviously) :)
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Nice pics...
We had a couple of inches of snow yesterday here in the Netherlands, and (although this is an older picture (it's dark right now ::)) this is what the anemometer kinda looks like right now.
So don't be surprised if the wind speed is stuck at zero. 8)
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Cool [freeze] pictures!
Cheers,
Reinhard
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Nice pics...
We had a couple of inches of snow yesterday here in the Netherlands, and (although this is an older picture (it's dark right now ::)) this is what the anemometer kinda looks like right now.
So don't be surprised if the wind speed is stuck at zero. 8)
Very nice! I'm guessing it'll be a few days before that's working again :)
Cool [freeze] pictures!
Cheers,
Reinhard
Groan. Of course, we are now all expecting a suitably winterish weather station pic from you Reinhard [bounce]
(Sorry Edouard, not sure if we aren't hijacking your thread a little here... they are wintery and they are of weather station bits however :) )
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Dear Stu, JosBaz, Reinhard, and WeatherCat photographers,
Oooh, nice! I'm guessing currently you're pretty impressed by the low light sensitivity - I know I was when I got my D600.
This Canon had rave reviews and it can do all sorts of things. For example, you can use an iPhone app to use it to do time-lapse movies. I've always wanted to do that.
Talking of wintery pictures, here's what my Davis solar sensor currently looks like. Now if you're like me, you're probably extremely critical of your photos - in the attached I could write reams on everything that's wrong with it, but in my defence, it is -4 out there and I was in a t-shirt and sandals (no socks obviously) :)
;) . . . Well, . . . okay . . . we'll let you off the hook - this time! [biggrin]
(Sorry Edouard, not sure if we aren't hijacking your thread a little here... they are wintery and they are of weather station bits however :) )
No worries, I like the pictures as much as the rest of you! [bounce]
Here are a few more taken this morning:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-fHmR29q/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-fHmR29q/A)
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-6X8njXQ/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-6X8njXQ/A)
I finally figured out how the EOS 70D allows you to tweak the auto exposure:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-dvFbCSk/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-dvFbCSk/A)
Unfortunately, Canon sure needs to take a few classes in user-interface design from Apple! ::)
Keep posting d'em pics!!
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Here is winter in Colorado (female Cassin's Finch). Snow storm last week and it is snowing again. Finally had to gas up the snow blower [roll]
(http://www.mu-43.com/gallery/data/1951/medium/CASSIN_FINCH.jpg)
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Great shot! She is looking so happy with the world :)
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Dear Stu, JosBaz, Reinhard, and WeatherCat photographers,
Oooh, nice! I'm guessing currently you're pretty impressed by the low light sensitivity - I know I was when I got my D600.
This Canon had rave reviews and it can do all sorts of things. For example, you can use an iPhone app to use it to do time-lapse movies. I've always wanted to do that.
Talking of wintery pictures, here's what my Davis solar sensor currently looks like. Now if you're like me, you're probably extremely critical of your photos - in the attached I could write reams on everything that's wrong with it, but in my defence, it is -4 out there and I was in a t-shirt and sandals (no socks obviously) :)
;) . . . Well, . . . okay . . . we'll let you off the hook - this time! [biggrin]
(Sorry Edouard, not sure if we aren't hijacking your thread a little here... they are wintery and they are of weather station bits however :) )
No worries, I like the pictures as much as the rest of you! [bounce]
Here are a few more taken this morning:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-fHmR29q/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-fHmR29q/A)
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-6X8njXQ/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-6X8njXQ/A)
I finally figured out how the EOS 70D allows you to tweak the auto exposure:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-dvFbCSk/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20at%20dawn%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-dvFbCSk/A)
Unfortunately, Canon sure needs to take a few classes in user-interface design from Apple! ::)
Keep posting d'em pics!!
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
What was the difference in the first two?
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Dear Jeff, Stu, and WeatherCat "shutterbugs" . . . .
Here is winter in Colorado (female Cassin's Finch). Snow storm last week and it is snowing again. Finally had to gas up the snow blower [roll]
Thanks for the pretty bird! Glad the respite from rain we are getting is helping you out! [WCSmall]
What was the difference in the first two?
;) . . . . sufferin' succotash Stu, why do you have to ask such embarrassing questions! . . . :-[
Well, I double-checked and the photos were taken two minutes apart. So that didn't give the clouds too much time to change. I suppose I was a little too excited trying out the new camera! [bounce]
I have a few more photos. I took this photo of a birch tree just after sunset:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-MZXPJ9f/0/L/Birch%20tree%20at%20twilight%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-MZXPJ9f/A)
It was amazed at how white the trunk appeared in the darkening sky. This photo at least hints at that.
Here is another one of those fiery sunrise photos around the anemometer:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-wJxk7vd/0/L/Dawn%20cloud%20effects%20around%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-wJxk7vd/A)
Since then I've decided to put the camera away until the UV minus filter for the lens shows up tomorrow. Up to now I've been shooting "naked" and sufferin' succotash, I managed to spray a bit of the air duster residue when I tried to remove some dust. >:( Anybody know what's the best way to clean a fancy lens like this? Since I all my lenses have the UV minus filter, I've never had to clean a lens itself.
Cheers, Edouard
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Dear WeatherCat shutterbugs,
Happy New Year! Have you made a resolution to photograph your weather instruments some more? At least that shouldn't be - nearly - as hard as most of the typical resolutions!
The UV minus and circular polarizer filter for my new camera arrived yesterday so it finally was allowed to come out of hiding. Here is a photo of clouds and both the anemometer and the ISS:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-GQkhv92/0/L/High%20clouds%20around%20weather%20instruments%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-GQkhv92/A)
;) . . . Awe shucks you guys . . . can't you at least take some pictures through the window without going outside? . . [freeze]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Nice Pics.
One from the West of Scotland.
Cheers
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Here's a picture I took during a skiing trip over Christmas in the French Alps. This Fog bow picture (with a bit of 'Glory'😇) is a composition of multiple pictures I took with my iPhone.
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
(http://weerenmeer.nl/files/mistboog.jpg)
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When winter strikes in Georgia, USA, it often is with ice! I don't have a heater on my rain gauge, but could have used it during this winter storm.
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Thanks for the nice pictures everybody! [tup]
Keep them coming!
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Dear WeatherCat shutterbugs, . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/kodak.gif)
The bad news is that we are back in drought mode once more . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/desert-smiley.gif)
The good news is that the sky conditions are ideal for the sort of fiery sky photography that I enjoy taking. Here is 4 examples from this morning:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-Vcv9KhN/0/L/Dawn%20fiery%20clouds%20around%20the%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-Vcv9KhN/A)
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-2C7bxQG/0/L/Dawn%20fiery%20clouds%20around%20the%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-2C7bxQG/A)
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-5v593Lh/0/L/Dawn%20fiery%20clouds%20around%20the%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-5v593Lh/A)
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-PM6dsnJ/0/L/Dawn%20fiery%20clouds%20around%20the%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-PM6dsnJ/A)
This afternoon a dry front passed over us resulting in very grey and gloomy skies. I snapped this photo of a birch tree against a a cloud-shrouded sun:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-6PTknc4/0/L/Birch%20trees%20against%20cloud-shrouded%20sun%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-6PTknc4/A)
That's your Orinda winter "pic fix" for a while!
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Groan. Of course, we are now all expecting a suitably winterish weather station pic from you Reinhard [bounce]
Here you are:
(F?hnstorm, plus 14,2? Celsius, I don't remember this "heat" here in my village ever before, in other years the garden is buried under some inches of snow at this time)
(http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/bilder/IMG_8037.jpg)
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Snow is melting at my house as well. Had 9.5" of snow on the ground and now just 3" - 6" lost in 5 days. Usually snow sticks around till the March melt. Now I am asking myself why did I get the snow blower out and plow everything out
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Dear Reinhard, Jeff, and WeatherCat climate watchers,
*Heavy Sigh*, I turned on the only automated sprinkler system I have managed to get installed - in January!?!? ???
We are back to that darn blocking high pressure ridge, and just like last year, it is pushing the jet stream way up into the arctic so that you guys in the Midwest and eastern seaboard of the United States are getting blasted with really cold air. Oddly, the 6-10 day prediction from the NWS Climate Predication Center is still for above normal rainfall, even the current forecast models aren't agreeing with that.
Oh well, hope the long term climate predictions really do pan out otherwise it is . . . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/desert-smiley.gif)
Oh well, . . . .
Edouard
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Dear WeatherCat shutterbugs, . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/kodak.gif)
The conditions have turned more foggy in Orinda and that leads to a different effect at dawn. The sky becomes more subtle:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-Pdx8N2j/0/L/Misty%20dawn%20around%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-Pdx8N2j/A)
Still, there is a hint of drama:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-6PTVBDS/0/L/Misty%20dawn%20around%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-6PTVBDS/A)
Here is one more of the wider view taken a bit later this morning:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-2kPHNQm/0/L/Misty%20dawn%20around%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-2kPHNQm/A)
That's your "moods of the sky around the anemometer" photo fix for the week! :D
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Dear WeatherCat Shutterbugs, (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/camera_emoticon-1.jpg)
Still no rain around here, but the storm that got the stars going to the Oscars a bit damp has been spinning clouds to the north. There was some interesting shapes to the clouds. This cloud started like this:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-BGvPpLr/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20from%20southern%20storm%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-BGvPpLr/A)
In about 15 minutes, it was looking like this:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-rZsVBRR/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20from%20southern%20storm%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-rZsVBRR/A)
I managed to snap one more picture of it before it fell apart:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-NQXSXCC/0/L/Cloud%20formations%20from%20southern%20storm%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Wild-Flowers/Winter-scenes-2014-15/i-NQXSXCC/A)
It isn't rain, but at least it is aesthetically appealing.
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Edouard, Interesting clouds. Every once in a while I get similar clouds here in Colorado with the mountains and high westerly winds.
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Clouds show a pattern that might be a standing wave pattern. Pretty neat.
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Dear HantaYo, LesCimes, and WeatherCat cloud watchers,
Glad you'all found them interesting.
Every once in a while I get similar clouds here in Colorado with the mountains and high westerly winds.
;) . . . . Well, . . . . next time you see them, don't forget your camera and especially don't forget to share! [biggrin]
Cheer, Edouard [cheers1]
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I tracked down some similar images. Both the same cloud formation but at different time of the day. Seems like it was around for several hours.
(http://www.mu-43.com/media/42387/full)
(http://www.mu-43.com/media/42386/full)
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Dear HantaYo and WeatherCat shutterbugs,
I tracked down some similar images. Both the same cloud formation but at different time of the day. Seems like it was around for several hours.
Beautiful! [bounce] Thanks for sharing! [tup]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Dear WeatherCat Shutterbugs, . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/camera_emoticon-1.jpg)
The days are getting longer and the sun is moving north in the sky. Soon I won't be able to take these fiery sunrise pictures anymore. However, here are two more before the season ends. The earlier picture is more fiery:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-ZtpWcXD/0/L/Fiery%20red%20sky%20behind%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-ZtpWcXD/A)
The photo a little later this morning is more of a traditional just before sunrise sort of photo:
(http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-Qg8rL6h/0/L/Fiery%20red%20sky%20behind%20anemometer%20-L.jpg) (http://canebas.smugmug.com/Nature/Weather/Sky-moods-2014-15/i-Qg8rL6h/A)
Alas, the "red sky at morning" forecast isn't panning out, the drought continues . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/desert-smiley.gif)
Oh well, . . . . Edouard
P.S. Both photos were underexposed by 1/3 EV and had the Canon EOS 70D HDR setting of 3 EV.