High above a windy city.

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited January 6, 2006 in Landscapes
Nothing much to add here....just something i noticed & had a lash at seeing what i could get from it. Its not really windy but that sounds better.


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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,313 moderator
    edited December 31, 2005
    You could title it "The Watcher."

    Who is that way up there? ne_nau.gif
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2005
    David_S85 wrote:
    You could title it "The Watcher."

    Who is that way up there? ne_nau.gif
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,963 moderator
    edited December 31, 2005
    David_S85 wrote:
    You could title it "The Watcher."

    Who is that way up there? ne_nau.gif

    Homeland security there mate. Can I see your papers please? How is it
    that you've come to photograph the bridge today Mr. ah...Humungus? mwink.gif
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2005
    Gus thats really cool
    The colors really work together here
    Also the rivets just pop out at you
    Oh yea the guy standing on top is ok too :D

    Thanks
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2005
    Tks guys...they take tours up there. Me ?..well im just waiting...waiting...waiting..

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,575 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    thumb.gif weldone great piece of photography
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Humungus wrote:
    Tks guys...they take tours up there. Me ?..well im just waiting...waiting...waiting..

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    THIS IS GOOD bowdown.gif
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited January 1, 2006
    OMIGOSH, is that for real??? eek7.gif

    If so, I predict you're going to win awards with that.
    It's amazing on so many levels.

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Gus, what is wrong with you people?

    And by you people I mean all Australians. What, are those people ... nuts?
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited January 1, 2006
    DavidTO wrote:
    What, are those people ... nuts?
    No, you answered your own question - they're australian! lol3.gif
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  • ShannonWShannonW Registered Users Posts: 248 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Gus these pictures are AWESOME but scary!


    WTF?????? I am with davidto on what is going on with you Australians?
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited January 1, 2006
    Note the only sensible one, an electrician no less, was on the ground taking the photo. lol3.gif
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    kdog wrote:
    OMIGOSH, is that for real??? eek7.gif

    If so, I predict you're going to win awards with that.
    It's amazing on so many levels.

    -joel

    Thanks K but seriously you could shoot that sometimes 2 or 3 times a week here when the storms are on. Been a bit of a lull for the past 2 weeks though but they are predicted today....its quite boring without them.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    THIS IS GOOD bowdown.gif

    From the man !! Thanks mate.
  • StefStef Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Wow... those are very good. The lightning one brings a sad feeling to me. I never was bothered by lightning until June 30, 2005 when we received a phone call.... my BIL was golfing near his home in Ohio, and was stuck and killed. RIP Richard, we love ya!:cry
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Thanks david awais & shannon. I thought i had put that one up before headscratch.gif I actually though it was a bit ordinary but you have made me look at it differently. We just get so much lightning you cant help but shoot it, an area to our north got 26,000 strikes in one hour 4 years ago but the average is a few thousand an hour. One night i was trying to count them & i recon it was a few hundred a minute.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2006
    Stef wrote:
    Wow... those are very good. The lightning one brings a sad feeling to me. I never was bothered by lightning until June 30, 2005 when we received a phone call.... my BIL was golfing near his home in Ohio, and was stuck and killed. RIP Richard, we love ya!:cry

    My deepest sympathies stef. Its certainly very dangerous & we get a lot of people hit around here.
  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    Wow! Cool stuff Gus....Seriously, how dangerous is that???
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  • rahmonsterrahmonster Registered Users Posts: 1,376 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    eek7.gifHoly heck Gus....That is one great shot...But there is no way in hell you would get me standing high up on a steel bridge in the middle of a good lightning show. Nuh uh no way. I'd rather stay somewhere dry, safe and EARTHED...Like a car...Man...Insane. Did they get stuck up there or did they think it was a good idea to stay for the show? Funny...They'd probably sue if someone was hit.

    We haven't had anything happening down here in a few weeks. And its been crazy hot too. And the last 4 nights in a row I have spent all day watching nice big anvil clouds form, only to watch them blow over to Coffs Harbour in the afternoonumph.gif

    Again...Very very nice shotclap.gifclap
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    DavidTO wrote:
    Gus, what is wrong with you people?

    And by you people I mean all Australians. What, are those people ... nuts?

    lol3.giflol3.giflol3.gif

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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    Awesome second shot Gus clap.gif

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    gubbs wrote:
    Wow! Cool stuff Gus....Seriously, how dangerous is that???
    Tks Gubbs

    In my book 'very dangerous' & im pretty casual with lightning. That is actually lightning ejecting from the rear of a storm that had just run through mins before but lightning can easily reach out 10 miles.

    Lightning is the most haphazard thing there is. It drops to above the earth & stalls for the briefest of moments & waits. As it sits there ..several small fingers of lightning will reach up to it & it then chooses the best path from one of these fingers. Then you have the main bolt.

    Problem is as we well know that these fingers will very often emit from the tallest objects & pref something that is metal with a good earth (read steel bridge). Thus putting your body in a path with that bolt & that high steel structure is suicde to my way of thinking. I would have no worries at all getting under some of the bridge structure & watching but no way would i allow myself to be on top in the path of one of those fingers. You dont know ..but if it decided to reach out to the bridge...you may get half a dozen fingers reach up to it from each high point of the bridge.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    USAIR wrote:
    Awesome second shot Gus clap.gif

    Fred
    Tks fred
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    rahmonster wrote:
    Did they get stuck up there or did they think it was a good idea to stay for the show? Funny...They'd probably sue if someone was hit.

    Tks RM
    I was watching them RM...they used the age old best method for lightning safety...every time a really big one went over , they ran down the stairs, waited a bit & then slowly walked back up eek7.gif

    People can do what they want but im not joining in.
  • erich6erich6 Registered Users Posts: 1,638 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2006
    Sounds like they had one to many VB's! friday.gif

    Nice explanation on the lighting Gus

    Erich
  • rahmonsterrahmonster Registered Users Posts: 1,376 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2006
    erich6 wrote:
    Sounds like they had one to many VB's! friday.gif

    Nice explanation on the lighting Gus

    Erich

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2006
    rahmonster wrote:
    :pukeGotta drink XXXX in Queensland (VB is awful awful stuff)rolleyes1.gifbooze

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