Wx

wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
edited January 9, 2009 in Other Cool Shots
723-gs-weather-station-2200-02.jpg
Anybody can do it.

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  • Jazmyn76Jazmyn76 Registered Users Posts: 103 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    that's a wicked cool image!
    Jazmyn
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  • jeffmeyersjeffmeyers Registered Users Posts: 1,535 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    What's "Wx" mean? And is that fog just under the horizon or something else? Just curious. I love the B&W conversion on this.
    More Photography . . . Less Photoshop [. . . except when I do it]
    Jeff Meyers
  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    great shot and conversion!

    wx is an abbreviation for "weather"
  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    Jazmyn76 wrote:
    that's a wicked cool image!
    You can say that again! Terrific shot!
    The Moose is Loose!
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2009
    Thanks everyone. The stuff under the horizon qualifies as stuff (dirty lens).
    Anybody can do it.
  • redleashredleash Registered Users Posts: 3,840 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2009
    To Jeff: "Wx" means "weather"--it's aviation shorthand.

    Very nice image--I like it a lot!

    Lauren
    "But ask the animals, and they will teach you." (Job 12:7)

    Lauren Blackwell
    www.redleashphoto.com
  • redleashredleash Registered Users Posts: 3,840 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2009
    oops - just saw that DJ answered the wx question . . .
    "But ask the animals, and they will teach you." (Job 12:7)

    Lauren Blackwell
    www.redleashphoto.com
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    Thanks Lauren.

    This is one of those shots that I evisioned for the month before I had a chance to get out and shoot with a slightly different angle. When I got up to the little weather station, I could see that my geometry (with the mountains nearby) was off. I walked around to the other side, looked up and started to curse the fading contrail. With a little work I got it to look like the weather vane was trying to do something it wasn't made to- Fly.
    Anybody can do it.
  • redleashredleash Registered Users Posts: 3,840 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    It does indeed look like a contrail from the tail of the vane! At a quick glance you could also say those tiny wispy clouds in the distance are a flight of airplanes trying to catch up with the weather vane! rolleyes1.gif

    If this place is near to you, have you tried to get it with a sunset/sunrise? Might be a nice image also.
    "But ask the animals, and they will teach you." (Job 12:7)

    Lauren Blackwell
    www.redleashphoto.com
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2009
    Clever use of contrail and the dirty lens does much to further my interest
    in the shot. How often will an unclean lens + a shot?
    Michael
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2009
    redleash wrote:
    It does indeed look like a contrail from the tail of the vane! At a quick glance you could also say those tiny wispy clouds in the distance are a flight of airplanes trying to catch up with the weather vane! rolleyes1.gif

    If this place is near to you, have you tried to get it with a sunset/sunrise? Might be a nice image also.

    It's a very trippy setting a litle over 100 miles from where I live. I have the drive out to catch a sunrise fairly routine, I've done it about 1/2 dozen times now. As mentioned before, I didn't get the shot I wanted. I'm not ready to let it go- I will be back.
    Anybody can do it.
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2009
    DaddyO wrote:
    Clever use of contrail and the dirty lens does much to further my interest
    in the shot. How often will an unclean lens + a shot?

    Thanks. :) Almost an incentive to not clean my lens anymore, but what are the odds of lucking out consistantly?
    Anybody can do it.
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