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Clouds

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Steve Robinson

New member
Clouds have always fascinated me from an early age and then especially after learning to fly. I'll start off with a couple of recent photographs I was lucky enough to see.

Building cumulus over the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. Yep, there was a heckuva thunderstorm later in the evening.
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A late afternoon with scattered cumulus and occasional virga* to make a prism for the low angle sun. I did enhance this one a little to bring out the colors in the prism and increase the drama in the clouds.
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* Virga is a dry climate phenomena where the precipitation evaporates before reaching the ground.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Steve Robinson said:
Clouds have always fascinated me from an early age and then especially after learning to fly. I'll start off with a couple of recent photographs I was lucky enough to see.

A late afternoon with scattered cumulus and occasional virga* to make a prism for the low angle sun. I did enhance this one a little to bring out the colors in the prism and increase the drama in the clouds.



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Steve,

I know about Virgil, virtue, Virgin olive oil, (even double virgin, LOL), Virgin Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Virginia. "Virga", however, is utterly new to me and extraordinary! I bet Madonna has never heard of this one either! :)

Asher
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fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Well, we rarely have clouds around here!!
Montana is one of many states, I would have liked to but never did..
The mountain ranges must be gorgeous. And the clouds over the mountains..I can only dream..

Lovely shot there, Steve.

Best regards.
 
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Steve Robinson

New member
Well Michael, we've got the right idea letting the clouds act as a prism. Those are some interesting sights. I'll have to keep an eye out when it gets colder and there's more ice in the air.

Jarmo, airplanes and clouds do go together. Most airshow images have boring blue skies. I like it with the planes seeming to fly out of the clouds.
 
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jake klein

Member
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One taken with my cell phone on the way to the airport from Stockton, Ca.

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A couple taken midflight.

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A quick snap before running in to work.

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Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
Clouds in the sky have inspired artists and photographers and still do. Allow me to link to an artist web site: Elena Volkova's airscapes.

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From her artist statement:

When you gaze into the sky, are you aware that you are gazing into emptiness? Do you see the sky as a barrier between you and infinity? If you perceive something as being empty, is it because you understand the concept of fullness, or is it because of fullness you perceive emptiness?

My artistic curiosity lie in the interchange between nothing and something, and its manifestation in everyday reality. While focused on natural elements, I am interested in the threshold between the two, their connotative values, and the ways in which they inform and question each other.

For the premise of my work, I focus on forms easily recognizable and universally understood: water, sky, land, forms that are part of our everyday poetry, sublime or mundane. Creating photographs of these subjects, my goal is to explore how much visual information is needed to perceive the essence of the subject against the background of nothing, a void. I am interested in the ways in which this essence serves as a framework for nothingness, as well as the ways it manifests itself against the canvas of nothing.

My exploration of nothingness is informed by Eastern philosophy, in which the notion of nothing is understood as the beginning and the potential. This I believe varies significantly from the Western existential notion of nothing as doom or death. According to the Taoist principles of Chinese painting, space is not a measurable quantity, but rather a means for suggesting the immeasurable vastness. Similarly, in most of my photographic work, the subject matter is gradually obliterated into large areas of a white void, suggesting unknown vastness and unrealized possibilities. Presenting the viewer with subtle indications of an image on a mostly white piece of photo paper, my goal is to bring forth the dialogue between the infinite qualities of the landscape and the limitations of the photographic process. In addition, I wish to question the viewer's perception of the boundaries - the edges of the piece of paper and the edges of the image - determined by camera framing.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Jerome Marot said:
Clouds in the sky have inspired artists and photographers and still do. Allow me to link to an artist web site: Elena Volkova's airscapes.

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From her artist statement:

When you gaze into the sky, are you aware that you are gazing into emptiness? Do you see the sky as a barrier between you and infinity? If you perceive something as being empty, is it because you understand the concept of fullness, or is it because of fullness you perceive emptiness?

My artistic curiosity lie in the interchange between nothing and something, and its manifestation in everyday reality. While focused on natural elements, I am interested in the threshold between the two, their connotative values, and the ways in which they inform and question each other.......
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Jerome,

This is a great link you provide. I appreciate the opening you have given to us to be aware of her work and the thinking behind it. I'm sure it will have an impact on more than a few of us!

Asher
 
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Steve Robinson

New member
In Jake's 4th image there's another face on the right looking left!

Jerome, for some reason Elena's site is grayed out when I try to view it even in a new window.
 
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Andy brown

Well-known member
Steve Robinson said:
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Jerome, for some reason Elena's site is grayed out when I try to view it even in a new window.
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Hate to be the one to say it but you're not missing anything.
Your shades of grey would be about as interesting as the washed out shades of bluish grey on offer.
Whatever profound thoughts were going on in the 'artist's' head don't make it through....in my opinion.
 
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Bart_van_der_Wolf

pro member
Asher Kelman said:
I've never even imagined such a rich and immensely grand and layered cloud scene. I'd have thought this was a back cloth had been painted for a Richard Wagner Opera.
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Hi Asher,

I think Cem did 'help' the original capture a little to create this Armageddon ..., but did a better job than a stage background painter could. There is also some light seeping through on the windmills, so maybe there is still hope?

Cheers,
Bart
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Yesterday, as I was stopped at a traffic light behind this car, I remembered about this thread with clouds…

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What a lucky guy, able to catch in his car trunk the uncatchable! and what a appropriate name of car…
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And of course, later on, I couldn't miss these!



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The brand new "Chaban Delmas" bridge in Bordeaux, ready to let a large passenger vessel go, with a special protection from the sky.

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Relief…
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All shot with an iPhone 4
 
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Michael Nagel

Well-known member
Nicolas,

Reflections in car windows are always interesting - love the coulds framing the window.

The second is my favourite - like the bridge was lifted to accept the cloud landing - when you have vivid imagination.

Best regards,
Michael
 
Chris Calohan

Chris Calohan

Well-known member
More cloudscapes

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The Beginning of a Major Thunderboomer

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When There's Nothing Left but Darkness

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Ooooh-Ahhhhhh

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Untitled

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Painted With Pastels​
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
Asher Kelman said:
Jerome,

This is a great link you provide. I appreciate the opening you have given to us to be aware of her work and the thinking behind it. I'm sure it will have an impact on more than a few of us!

Asher
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Absolutely!
The depth of meaning in Elena's photos of nothing at all is profound and insightful. I was quite taken away by their very presence on my iPad staring at them longingly until the full impact was felt. They have inspired me to greater things. I am currently formulating a body of work based on the paster wall in my garage. I have to scrub it clean first. Wouldn't want anything interesting to appear, would we?
Fame and fortune, here I come.
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
OK, it is time for some leg pulling.

Tom dinning said:
Absolutely!
The depth of meaning in Elena's photos of nothing at all is profound and insightful. I was quite taken away by their very presence on my iPad staring at them longingly until the full impact was felt. They have inspired me to greater things. I am currently formulating a body of work based on the paster wall in my garage. I have to scrub it clean first. Wouldn't want anything interesting to appear, would we?
Fame and fortune, here I come.
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Tom I think you have finally grokked it. Even your artist's statement in the expo thread is aligned with hers:

'as a child i was intrigued by the small spaces between things. ... This was my capsule and I drifted through Space and taste the stars.
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Jerome Marot said:
....From her artist statement:

When you gaze into the sky, are you aware that you are gazing into emptiness? Do you see the sky as a barrier between you and infinity? If you perceive something as being empty, is it because you understand the concept of fullness, or is it because of fullness you perceive emptiness?

My artistic curiosity lie in the interchange between nothing and something, and its manifestation in everyday reality. While focused on natural elements, I am interested in the threshold between the two, their connotative values, and the ways in which they inform and question each other.

For the premise of my work, I focus on forms easily recognizable and universally understood: water, sky, land, forms that are part of our everyday poetry, sublime or mundane. Creating photographs of these subjects, my goal is to explore how much visual information is needed to perceive the essence of the subject against the background of nothing, a void. I am interested in the ways in which this essence serves as a framework for nothingness, as well as the ways it manifests itself against the canvas of nothing.

My exploration of nothingness is informed by Eastern philosophy, in which the notion of nothing is understood as the beginning and the potential. This I believe varies significantly from the Western existential notion of nothing as doom or death. According to the Taoist principles of Chinese painting, space is not a measurable quantity, but rather a means for suggesting the immeasurable vastness. Similarly, in most of my photographic work, the subject matter is gradually obliterated into large areas of a white void, suggesting unknown vastness and unrealized possibilities. Presenting the viewer with subtle indications of an image on a mostly white piece of photo paper, my goal is to bring forth the dialogue between the infinite qualities of the landscape and the limitations of the photographic process. In addition, I wish to question the viewer's perception of the boundaries - the edges of the piece of paper and the edges of the image - determined by camera framing.
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Now all you need to do is to print your work with a lambda printer at 1x1.5 meters, alu-dibond backing and acrylic sandwich and price them at 4000 Euro or higher. Fortune will be all yours. And I promise to stare at 400pixel jpg versions on my tablet indefinetely in the hope to grok it too.
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
What statement was that, Cem? I have so many it's hard to keep up.
What's 'grokking'? Is that some sort of Turkish terrorist technique?
I've always been fascinated by spaces between things. I did want to be a gynecologist for that very reason but didn't like the idea of rubber gloves.

Wait until you see what I've done with my plaster wall. I took your advise and had it printed on butchers paper in duo tone, a sort of white on white all the way to the edge of the frame.

Nd what's this tongue in cheek stuff? Can't anyone take us artists serious?
 
Chris Calohan

Chris Calohan

Well-known member
Man interested in spaces between things, yet never read Stranger in a Strange Land and there are rubber gloves (Tamron) and fine latex (Zeiss). Where this response is going, I have no idea other than getting a giggle by all the other responses as to the constitutional qualities of the artist's psyche as prescribed by Eastern philosophers.

Not a knock to anyone person, rather just an observation.
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Chris Calohan said:
Man interested in spaces between things, yet never read Stranger in a Strange Land and there are rubber gloves (Tamron) and fine latex (Zeiss). Where this response is going, I have no idea other than getting a giggle by all the other responses as to the constitutional qualities of the artist's psyche as prescribed by Eastern philosophers.

Not a knock to anyone person, rather just an observation.
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Precisely! :)
 
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