We had some wild looking thunderheads roll over Green Acres yesterday and it got me to thinking about this sunset I shot a couple years ago. I still don't know what the bands in the sky came from....
Here's a pic of some weird clouds I took. I had never seen any like them before and haven't since....
They are called mammatus clouds Mammatus Clouds sagging pouch-like structures http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/oth/mm.rxml
Met this beast this evening when it parked itself right in the middle of my road to the silage pile. When I got out of the tractor to shoo it away it just wanted to sit there and fight. So I just sat in the tractor for a few minutes until it decided it was time to move on.
Rounded up a pasture this morning to move cows to a harvested soybean field to forage. I love the sumac this time of year. Drove by a mule deer buck and doe sleeping under the cedars. They never moved.
Just found the inspiration for my next model build..... love the digital camo scheme on the Ukraine 27UB Flanker ..its only fair as I did the Russian Flanker earlier....
Was out fixing the last of the pasture fence for the season the other day. Heavy snow we had last winter broke a lot of wires and pulled out a lot of staples. But we have had some good rains this spring after a dry summer last year. It seems all the pasture plant residents are taking advantage of the moisture and most are in full bloom. Here are some examples.
A couple of weeks ago I was out wandering the property taking photos when I took this shot of some of the zinnias and ornamental grasses that we've planted. What interested me here was not so much the subject matter but the lighting. I took a shot or two from the other side with the sun behind me and the lighting was somewhat washed out, very flat and generally not very interesting to look at, but when I came around to the other side and took the shot towards the general direction of the sun where everything was backlit I wound up with a completely different picture. Suddenly there was really nice light and color contrast throughout the shot and I liked the way the sunlight glowed through the blooms of the flowers and grass, creating different shades and tints of color versus when this was shot from the front and everything was monochromatic. Generally, shooting a backlit scene in the direction of your light source, be it natural or artificial, is a no-no in photography, film and especially video, but sometimes you can get some serendipitous results when you throw out the rules and get creative.