Sunset Thunderstorms

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited October 5, 2010 in Landscapes
In addition to green flash the sunsets lately were featuring something very non-typical for our part of SoCal - a thunderstorm. Here are a few exerpts from Oct 1st:

#1: Gold

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#2: Sunset sweep

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#3: Orange lining

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#4: Clouds

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#5: Moar Gold

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#6: Purple Rain

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#7: Thunderstorm over Sierras

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  • trevorbtrevorb Registered Users Posts: 263 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    Really like #6 but #7 is just Epic!
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    trevorb wrote: »
    Really like #6 but #7 is just Epic!
    Thanks! thumb.gif
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    #2 is very striking I really like it. For #7 did you look at a crop that takes out the fence? Maybe it is just me but at first glance I thought it was an anode. What can I say, once a geek always a geek.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    BradfordBenn wrote: »
    #2 is very striking I really like it. For #7 did you look at a crop that takes out the fence? Maybe it is just me but at first glance I thought it was an anode. What can I say, once a geek always a geek.

    Thanks, Brad! thumb.gif
    As for another crop for #7... I kinda like the fence, since it's my favorite sunset vista. Besides, I don't like losing 2:3 ratio without severe reason and if I squeezed it any tighter I'd lose some compositional structure or some secondary, but important elements. deal.gif
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    Sweet skies Nicclap.gif
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  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,341 moderator
    edited October 3, 2010
    I really like #7, fabulous!

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    Dan, Denise, thank you guys! thumb.gif
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  • swintonphotoswintonphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,664 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    #2 has a great way of moving your eye around the composition. Lovely colors that really create the beauty of the composition.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    swintonphoto wrote: »
    #2 has a great way of moving your eye around the composition. Lovely colors that really create the beauty of the composition.
    Heh, thanks! thumb.gif
    The thing is, we have a very particular coastal line here, with high hills (Santa Monica Mountains) on the South and Sierra foothills on the North. Add a couple of valleys (Conejo Valley and Moorpak/Simi valley) and you get a natural rule for colud formation (that is, if there are any) that perfectly "follows the sunset".
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  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    Love 'em Nikolai. That lightning photo especially!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2010
    dogwood wrote: »
    Love 'em Nikolai. That lightning photo especially!
    Thanks, Pete! thumb.gif
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    WOW nice captures, Nik! These would be lovely from anywhere but to catch lightning strikes and fire sunsets in SoCal, that's really something. :D
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    schmoo wrote: »
    WOW nice captures, Nik! These would be lovely from anywhere but to catch lightning strikes and fire sunsets in SoCal, that's really something. :D
    Thank you Steph! iloveyou.gif
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Beautiful, Nik! I was cooped up inside most of the day. Didn't even hear the thunder.
    Chris
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    ChrisJ wrote: »
    Beautiful, Nik! I was cooped up inside most of the day. Didn't even hear the thunder.
    Thanks Chris!
    There was no thunder, at least for me. The whole action was dozens miles away, I don't think sound travels that far even if there was one (for some reason local thunderstorms are mostly silent even if they happen).
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  • Roaddog 52Roaddog 52 Registered Users Posts: 309 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    A really fine set of images, but #2 is one fantastic sky image.clap.gif

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Roaddog 52 wrote: »
    A really fine set of images, but #2 is one fantastic sky image.clap.gif

    Phil

    Thanks Phil! thumb.gif
    We don't get it often here, but sometimes we do get it good mwink.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    travelandphotolover wrote: »
    Unreal clouds in some of the top ones---whats green flash?


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  • TreyHoffTreyHoff Registered Users Posts: 388 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2010
    Great set. "Moar Gold" does it for me thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2010
    TreyHoff wrote: »
    Great set. "Moar Gold" does it for me thumb.gif
    Thanks!thumb.gif
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