I captued this shot today of a Storm coming , on a drive back to Wisconsin from  Minnosota ..... 

Praying

        Running  

                 The Flapper

        The Dribbler

The Knothead         

For Penny & EMF The Dribbler w/a focal point             

and this particular morning, i sure did.  hope y'all like em.

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 *it's late, so my story kinda sucks.  hope the pics fare better than my tale.

No 4x5s today.  I got them developed and printed, but they're drying.  Maybe tomorrow.

Instead, I bring you the sunset from tuesday.  It was a crazy day for weather this past Tuesday.  It rained all day long, into the night and at one point I thought my roof was going to be blown off.  But it stopped raining for a short while just in time for the sunset.  And the clouds were gracious enough to part slightly to show it.

I know I don't have a picture perfect scene from the balcony of my apartment, but I couldn't pass up these colors.

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rainy day sunset 3
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Thanks for looking!

Enjoy...

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where I work

Something for Rockadee, though I don't think I will ever be as good as he is at this kinda stuff. Eagle Eagle2

And something pretty  Sunset Parts
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And for Penny Open Wings, Kinda...

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I was on a trip to Arches national Park in 1998. After spending th day in Arches, i decided to make a trip to Dead Horse Point which overlooks the Canyonlands National park. (I will post the photos of the trip seperately). On my way back, I saw this spectacular view of clouds at sunset. Enjoy the view. Please excuse the qulaity of the digital pic as the print is over 8 years old and has been scanned on a very old photo scanner.

It was just so pretty.

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Thanks for looking.

P.S. The thumbnail is from my first post here, Lilbit made me get a little nostalgic...
(She just had her 1 yr. anniversary on photographica the other day.)

Once again I found myself at the beach for the weekend.  This time I decided to try black and white photos.  Be honest and tell me what you think.  Theocean's surf started to splash the rocks and then return to its home.  The rockshelp protect the point from the ocean's fiery.   As we walked down the beach we came across a  sand castle or in terms of my three year old thinking, Cinderella's castle.  As I walked around the sand castle I notice that the inhabitants of the castle were Mrs. and Mr. Octopus.  Must give credit to where credit is deserved.  The artists were from good ole NOLA.  Later that night I notice that the surf was really started to come in.  

A few bonus pics in color.
Sailing

 Sea Tow to the Rescue

Soaring High

Strange cloud formations over the Gulf

Storms to the West of Orange Beach

The pending storm comes.
S T O R M Clouds become RedCloud it has arrived.

Here is my first time with photographica so I thought i would post a couple pics.image of black diamond mines landscape let me know what you think..black diamond mines landscape 2 i'm love to get feed back good or bad.. i feel that by feed by i'll become a better photographer.. thanks.

Before the storm last night

 cotton candy fire

Hope y'all enjoy!

Where I live it's usually hot and dry, HOT and DRY. However we occasionally get this amazing thunderstorms that drop enough  rain to muddy your car up pretty good. However today's storm only rained sunshine.

This was me taking pictures mostly to play with the settings on my camera. These three were manual settings that I ended up liking the results with. Harder then it sounds!

A selection of photos from the confines of my own backyard...

The clouds this evening were quite special, so I picked up the camera for the first time in a few weeks.

From that occasion (a few weeks back) we have the impressive flowers of the  Robyn Gordon. Young Oscar was happy to help with the photos.

And finally, a different perspective of some wind chimes.

I met a teenager from our church for a photo shoot Saturday morning down by the Mississippi. It was  cloudy and threatening rain. I got some shots under the Stone Arch Bridge. I also took some shots of the old mill and new Guthrie Theatre side by side. Unfortunately we got rained out.  We agreed that we'll do it again under better weather circumstances.

I was going over some of my pictures today and I was looking at how many kinds of sky pictures I've taken lately from peaceful, to  stormy. It seems like Crepuscular rays make an appearance quite frequently in my pictures, but last week I caught this unusual ones over the Magic Kingdom after a storm. Very different than these clouds in Iowa before the storm. I've just learned to keep my eyes open to see what wonders I can catch with my camera, not only for sunsets, like I used to.

Moody
Cloudy sky
Empty
Dirty
Dark rows

Reach high for the stars
 lie hidden in your soul
Dream deep for every dream
 preceds the goal

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Have a good day : )

PS. hope this comes out ok preview is not working

For the light challenge: Sun & Bird FeederAfter  the rain.

Picking a favorite was really difficult, because I have favorites for different reasons, not so much because of good photography, but because of memories etc...so I decided to let my daughter pick for me and she said these three:
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Bonus; yesterday on my birdfeeder I saw an Indigo Bunting.Every picture I got of it was in the shade, I am going to try to catch it in the sun soon, to really show off the color.

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