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20-OCT-2006

Afterglow, Mono Lake, California, 2006

A cloudscape can also be a landscape. This image is both, defining the scale of the distant hills, juxtaposed against a corner of one of the most unique lakes on earth. The shape and coloration of the cloud is unique – some call it a Sierra cloud. A giant spear of pink, the well-defined cloud echoes the lighter, more diffused clouds behind it.

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Date/Time20-Oct-2006 18:13:21
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Focal Length24.5 mm
Exposure Time1/100 sec
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ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias-0.66
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Phil Douglis19-Nov-2006 02:03
Glad you like the tilt here -- I had a nasty comment denegrating both myself and this image (which I have long since deleted) because the horizon was not parallel to the frame. It is like a giant spear, isn't it, Ai Li? And yes -- use your vivid imagination to take it from there.
AL18-Nov-2006 16:36
Interesting cloudscape indeed, open to our interpretation. Your tilt worked well with your description of a giant spear, throwing itself across the sky into your frame. A great sense of motion and perhaps heat force due to the glow. My imagination of course :-)
Phil Douglis27-Oct-2006 06:54
Thanks Jack and Macastate for sharing this experience with me. I found the experience surreal, and this image is one of the most bizarre cloudscapes I've seen on my travels. I deliberately went against some of the "rules" here -- I allow the land to tilt up a bit, to match the soaring cloud and increase the sense of surrealism. And I love the bit of noise in the shot as well -- it gives the image a slight texture that adds to its other wordliness.
Macastat27-Oct-2006 03:05
perhaps a craft of a distance voyager. We each perceive what we need to see I suppose. Brilliant image.
Guest 27-Oct-2006 02:32
I call it a sky surf board. This is a great picture!!
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