Black & White Thread Volume V

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    • #225938
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
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      The Black & White Thread Volume IV has ended already with post number 100 from Michael: “a little fun with a spot”. Threads must end and threads must start anew.

      In Swimming Through The Waves your swimmer is defying the high waves, Keelin, despite of his assumed age. Was it Neil Young or was it Van the man? He is not doing a moondance. It is only rock and roll but I like it.

      Now I like to continue the swimming theme for the opening of Volume V of the Black and White Thread.

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      I wish you could swim, ….. like the dolphins can swim.

    • #226019
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Nice wrap and fresh start, Michael and Hans! Here’s a little fun with a swish ~~~

      IMG_5123_In the Wake of the Dolphins

      In the Wake of the Dolphins

    • #226096
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Fog

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    • #226176
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Indeed a f fresh start with your turbulent windy seascape in the wake of the dolphins, Keelin.

      Next a mysterious atmosphere in Fog from Michael, showing a cumulus looming from the foggy surroundings almost like an approaching boat. Fantastic.

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      There Is A Lot Going On

    • #226288
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Some Fun With Depth

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    • #226331
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      In Depth Coincidence

    • #226423
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Love the above! Below, not a lot going on. Just A Few Soft Layers and a little something to add a bit of depth and beckon the eye.IMG_5307_A Few Soft Layers

    • #226509
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      It is the little something that does it Keelin. It betrays there must be something mysterious going on….

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      Seen From The Depth

       

    • #226581
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      An Offering of Light

      An Offering of Light!

       

    • #226626
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Offer accepted! Thank you Keelin.

      For a change this is an original non-photo-shopped picture except for the conversion to black and white.

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      Another Offering Of Light dedicated to Maxfield Parrish.

    • #226717
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Evocation

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    • #226919
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      Light As A Feather

    • #227004
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Dedications, Evocations, the lightness of feathers. All aspects inspire…

      IMG_4746_Found This Under My Pillow

      Found This One Under My Pillow

    • #227124
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Very nice, these feathers tickle the inspiration.

      Next one is very different, spotted today on the edge of an upcoming front.

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      The Long Black Veil

    • #227139
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
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      As seen through the gauze of a [beautiful!] Long Black Veil…

      Veil of Uncertainty

      A Landscape of Uncertainty

    • #227182
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Hyena

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    • #227192
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Your Hyena is a haunting beauty, Michael. I want to go there and hear him calling out to the brightness in the darkness.

      Below, with a nod to Leonard Cohen…

      IMG_5351_Tangle of Matter and GhostA Tangle of Matter and Ghost

    • #227262
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Ha, over and over surprising posts! I always like to devote some notes about them. First the view through a veil on a Landscape of Uncertainty. A very creative and witty reply with the granularity you applied, Keelin. Then the lonely Hyena is a great finding and composition. The tangle of Matter and Ghost is a perfect title for the lovely cloudy chaos from Keelin. And secondary it made me learn that there exists an interesting book about the late Buddhist singer. I have great memories of some performances of him.

      I like to post a follow up on each theme having collected the last two months a lot of black and white candidates impatiently waiting to be shared. So ….

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      Moonlit Prairie

    • #227266
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
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      The Cloud Of Unknowing

    • #227346
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Fact of The Matter

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    • #227365
      Felicity Smart avatarFelicity Smart
      Participant

      Hope this lenticularis over Mt Wellington, Tasmania is worthy.P1360091

    • #227429
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Welcome Felicity! You’re too modest. I like the picture very much and the scenery is doing very well in black and white. Thanks for sharing. I suppose it is also doing well in color on the gallery. I hope to see more from you.

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      What’s The Matter

    • #227480
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Felicity, welcome! You’ve captured an impressive “Lennie” with a good dose of drama and mystery. Thank you for sharing it with us, and to echo Hans, we hope you will continue to post here.

      And Hans, I enjoy the notes very much (bedanken!) for the mind-sparkling way they work to weave the threads of our communal tapestry.

      From both you and Michael, I’m still learning to see the essence (what IS the matter) of cloud beauty drilled down — which in turn, not surprisingly, reminds me of the succinct writings of Lydia Davis. It’s become a fruitful exercise in stretching the mind as well.

      Mind Over Matter

      Mind Over Matter

    • #227555
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      An Entirely Different Matter

       

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    • #227608
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Thank you Keelin for your kind words, and even in Dutch. Hartelijk dank! So let’s weave further on our communal tapestry to speak in your own well found words. Mind Over Matter and An Entirely Different Matter are both perfect abstract continuations on the theme.

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      A Matter Of Light

      PS, a  somewhat different matter: after I found a follow-up in choosing a title that matters, I found out that “a matter of light” leads via Google to the site of an Australian photographer (link). He has a gallery dominated by pictures of mainly animal life, but also just a few abstracts that come close to our cloud abstracts. Furthermore he published some tutorials on photo-shopping, for example about noise reduction. I think they are interesting to know about.

    • #227821
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Ringers

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    • #227884
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      Cloud With A Twist

    • #227949
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      May 19

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    • #227966
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Wonder-full images above, you two — very nourishing to these local-cloud-deprived eyes! It’s been all blue skies here (again) for days, so it’s back to spelunking the dark caverns of archival photos. But wait… is that A Way Out, just past the stalactites?

      IMG_4759_A Way Out

    • #228072
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      MAY 19 is on fire, Michael!

      Too pity the sky is cloudless over there, Keelin but spelunking certainly had its benefits!

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      This One Has Grown And Came Near To Drop Its Burden

    • #228101
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Not unlike some Popcorn that also fell from above…

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    • #228119
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Nov 20

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    • #228160
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      Watching The Show On NOV 20 After Enjoying Some Tasty Pop Corn During The Break

    • #228246
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      July 21

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    • #228281
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      Circus Cirrus

    • #228391
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      This Is Not a Sunset

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    • #228466
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      This Is Not a Sunset but for some reason I see this large animal, can ‘t help….

      Apart from this strange inclination of the mind to see things in clouds it really is a beautiful abstract with great play of darkness and detailed bright whites, thus giving the feel of a zodiac sign. Intriguing.

      For some reason this elephant seems to follow me. I am not paranoia and it is not a pink one.

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      Circus Cumulus

    • #228471
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      So funny, Hans! You are a keen observer (even in the dark of a movie theatre) and perhaps prescient in what you’ve seen in Michael’s intriguing Not a Sunset (the image below is evidence!). And as adorable as your friend above may appear, I’d watch out for him at sunset.

      Lacerta

      Lacerta

    • #228627
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Floccus Pond

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    • #228654
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      With the zodiac sign Lacerta I felt tempted to let the bat(man) return like you foresaw Keelin in a former thread, but I didn’t want to disturb Michael’s pond again with another dangerous celestial creature.

      Now someone else makes his return.

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      Miro Revisited

    • #228863
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Nice Mystery Hans..

      Feelers

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    • #228894
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Thank you Michael. And …. your feelers made me remember the ingenious Cloud Doodles, you once introduced. I see some resemblance with Feelers although there is also a lot of difference, mainly in the cloud-context. It is nice to scroll through the pictures of the thread Cloud Doodles again and reread you text. Next one comes close…

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    • #228989
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Below might fit in with the Cloud Doodles, but posted here, it could be The Return of the Unknown Artist from B&W IV (perhaps a friend of Miro?). The mystery continues…

      Return of the Unknown Artist

    • #229073
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Ha, the unknown artist returns as I hoped for. He or she leaves for the second time a very mysterious bright cloudscape. Quite surreal. It makes me puzzle what I see…..

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      Did The Unknown Artist Leave His Trace?

    • #229230
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      Blond

    • #229318
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Test…not taking photos

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    • #229319
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      So I update java and adobe reader..now this site won’t take a foto on first try..but if I post text first then edit in foto..i have success..Any body can give me a clue what is going on..or not…here?

    • #229341
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Talk about surreal! Who or what might be tethered to that bright chain of light you’ve teased us with, Hans? A blond artist hovering above an alien planet? The mind can’t help but wonder. Be that as it may, I like your image very much!

      And Michael, glad to see you found a way around a posting glitch. Let’s see if this one makes it.

      IMG_5497_BWNot Taken Through A Muddy Window

    • #229409
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Thank you Keelin!  On my turn I enjoy your interpretations and wonderment of my and Michael’s pictures very much.

      Funny title for your picture Not Taken Through A Muddy Window, but I would bet it was!  Again the mind can’t help but wonder.

      As to the glitch I don’t have a clue, Michael. At this moment I don’t have problems with posting a picture since the image upload functionality has gone AWOL on the 11 th of August. That temporarily glitch was fixed almost the same day. Earlier this year I had the problem that several posts did not get published. Then I discovered that publishing in visual mode of a text with a hyperlink and an image added caused the problem. I had to edit the post with the link in text mode and that way the post was published well. So now, having only a picture and text I usually post in visual mode and that works well. When I have a link to be published I enter it in text mode. Editing afterwards in visual mode is possible I discovered. So far so good on my side. When this doesn’t help and you have a clear reproducible glitch I can advise to document it including screenshots of the steps you make together with applicable messages and send it to support. I experienced that Gavin will respond to solve it. I hope this helps.

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      Trespassing?

    • #229493
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Nice layers of textures Keelin! , And thanks for the tips Hans. Lets see what happens with this one:

      A Misadventure

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    • #229582
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      Flock No Floccus

    • #229685
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Right Turn…or Watching Irma All Day

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    • #229810
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      He Watched Irma And Wasn’t Amused

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    • #229811
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Thank you both for kind words. Not Taken Through A Muddy Window was a surprise for me too. The color version was so cold looking with its steely blue and grey hues. It was just for a lark that I cast it in B&W — and liked the results. More of that playful exploration we’ve talked about here.

      Speaking of play… Hans, your titles continue to leave me giggling. What is your Trespasser up to? Some kind of Misadventure? He’d best watch out and not step in the Sticky Stuff.

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      PS: Michael, caught your ghostly apparition on the CAS gallery. Wow!

    • #229836
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      True Irma has not been amusing but engrossing ,yes, heart breaking coming in on the heels of Harvey and now Jose also spreading havoc in the region. The size of these cyclones is disturbing. And what a disturbing path Keelin has us walking. Ewww!. but surprising! I have never conceived of such when scanning the clouds., the sticky stuff! ;)

      Heres one I forgot about. I hope it reproduces itself well here. I get lost in it.

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    • #229916
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      ERROR: Your reply cannot be created at this time.

      ???, except for this…

    • #229921
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      I agree Keelin. Conversion to black and white together with some photo-shopping often surprises. It is the same I experienced from the moment I got inspired by Michael to do so. Real fun. And then some text follows that seems to be the reason that the system could not create the reply and thus I had to remove it. I found this out by trying. Nothing harmful in the text imho. Something about a smiling trespasser having stepped in something (just rephrasing).

      Are there any more pictures you forgot about Michael? It reproduced very well. It is a very peaceful scenery to get lost in.

      Less peaceful are the cyclones. Luckily Jose has chosen a path away from the islands. At this moment Irma is ravaging Florida. What terrible powers seemingly harmless elements like water, wind and warmth are able to make loose! In this case they produce no innocent clouds for sure.

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      Havoc

       

    • #229923
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Seemingly a plugin of WordPress is used that checks a blacklist of words before creating a reply. Apparently completely harmless words seem to be blocked. Maybe this was also the cause of your former problem Michael. I have had this once before and found a workaround not being aware of the cause.

       

    • #229926
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Seeing the unfathomable devastation wrought by Irma and her cohorts sent me searching through archives, hoping to find an image that would offer a resting place at least for the eyes. This one’s a fair bit grainy, but it has a certain softness, like the comfort of a warm blanket. [ And no sticky stuff, Michael! ;) ]

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      Hans, glad to see you found a work around the posting problem. Speaking of such oddities, I noticed my previous post must have gotten “stuck” along the way and ended up out of sequence.

    • #230088
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

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      At Peace Again

    • #230113
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      anybody remember the opening line to “Days Of Our Lives”?june2116a5600

    • #230160
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      I did not know about it, but now I do. Very applicable Michael.

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      One Day

    • #230275
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Clever, Michael! And Hans takes us from sand… to silk ~~~
      Below, a crossing of textures to add to our collection.

      Crossing of Textures

    • #230282
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      and somewhere between  thought and tangible

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    • #230380
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      From sand to silk, a crossing of textures, between thought and tangible. A wonderful sequence for sure. Where can I buy a ….

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      Strip Of Cloth?

    • #230570
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      between perceiving and the perceived…

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    • #230584
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      A strip of cloth sheered by the wind could make for a diaphanous view of what lies between perceiving and the perceived. The same force might also separate The Wheat From The Barley.

      IMG_5197_BW_The Wheat From The Barley

    • #230638
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Both beautiful textures!And I suddenly have this perception of the poor John Barleycorn:

      They’ve hired men with the crab-tree sticks,
      To cut him skin from bone,
      And the miller he has served him worse than that,
      For he’s ground him between two stones.

      Sounds harsh, but a very lovely song!

      This will be my last contribution for a bit more ten two weeks. In he meantime I will be able to check the forum but can’t upload new ones only comment. For sure I will gather some new material. To be continued.

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      Blond II

       

    • #230710
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      The Unknown Artist wanted to post this before you take off, Hans, but you can see What Comes Of Haste. I trust Michael and I (and maybe others?) will not let this forum rest, and meanwhile, may the skies above smile upon you.

      What Comes Of Haste

    • #230735
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Water Tooth

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    • #230793
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Michael, if your Water Tooth were to be found on a gallery wall, no doubt I’d be looking at it for a long time. There’s great mystery there and the title just adds to the intrigue.

      Meanwhile, I can’t help but wonder where one might find such a thing. Could it have belonged to this Lagoon Creature? She does appear to be searching for something. But don’t worry, you can see by her smile, she’s friendly, and perhaps only hoping to find an offering for the tooth fairy.

      IMG_5537_BW_From the Black Lagoon

    • #230924
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Mystery it is Keelin. May it be infinite, something to chew on for ever. ..;)

      A Visit From Horus

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      • #232359
        Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
        Participant

        Michael, I believe Hora Staccato was written following an earlier visit from Horus when he brought the family? I may be wrong.

      • #232382
        Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
        Participant

        Well that one went over my head like Heifetz’s bow..I think there is not a musician alive who hasn’t done some kind of rendition of Hora Staccatomar0517a1449

    • #230988
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      How thoughtful of Horus to leave behind A Feather For Your Cap!

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    • #231171
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Overhead Chaos

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    • #231244
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Taking Refuge In The Kelp from the wild(ly beautiful) Overhead Chaos.

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    • #231295
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Oops! Wrong version of image and text I’d intended to post, but edit option appears to have disappeared!

    • #231462
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      July 17

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    • #231559
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
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      Great balance of movement in July 17, Michael.

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    • #231739
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      July 11
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    • #231933
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Looking Up at the Surface
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    • #232176
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      And then there’s the Beach Dunes at Mid-Night ~~~

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    • #232384
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Well..since you brought it up

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    • #232508
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      WOW, Michael! You have taken surreal cloud art to a whole new level. What an extraordinary gem. Love the title too. How to follow is quite a challenge…

      IMG_5453_BW_It's Not What I ThoughtIt’s Not What I Was Thinking

    • #232517
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Ha that little figural slays me! I stayed with the same cloud as above for the shot below. You can see some remnants . I like gettin in the zone and just trusting it for where it goes.

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    • #232818
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Lucky for us, you stayed in that zone! Below is from another day, but also came about from not turning away from what was was developing. It has, to my eye, a odd resemblance to that funny little figura in my previous post.

      IMG_5130_BW_Same Figura Different Day?

    • #232831
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Yea, A Day Later It Was Still Going On

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    • #233112
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
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      Curiouser and curiouser, Michael!

      And today, a little Friend of the Figural showed up…

      IMG_5866_BW_Friend of the Figural

    • #233180
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      April 23april2316a4688

    • #233375
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      This is really fun, looking back to what you two published the last two weeks. Pictures and text as well. Thank you both. I love them all.

      In July 11 I see this face of a large headed alien. A very intriguing picture, Michael! And the little figure in It’s Not What I Was Thinking is fantastic!…. and even showing up again in the pictures of Keelin.

      I am happy to contribute again.

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      Take Off

       

    • #233380
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      You were missed, Hans! Here’s Another Funny Figural welcoming you back with a wispy cloud song.

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    • #233383
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      And Micheal, your April 23 image is as mesmerizing as the beauty of waterfalls. Here’s one that might follow such a rush of water.

      IMG_5859_WB_Waterfall LandingWaterfall Landing

    • #233454
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Thank you for your kind words Keelin. After he sound of the welcoming wispy cloud song by your Funny Figural and of the thundering waterfall maybe you can now hear the sound of the water flowing gently after having been landed.

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      It was a good start of the day today with the ghostly apparitions from Mike in the Cloud A Day.

      And lately I saw some changes in the cloud library of the cloudspotter app and discovered two great examples by Mike for lacunosus and lenticularis.

    • #233606
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Hi Hans!, I trust you enjoyed  your vacation. Yes, Keelin and I have been having fun in the B&W. I am not a user of the Cloud App, not having a smartphone , pad, etc so I have very little understanding of what is going on there except the cloud a day  but again, i see all that on my desk top. Thanks for the heads up!. And I notice your parhelic circle experience is in the Gallery!  I wish every cloudspotter  the profound ” Awesome” Astounding” experience of witnessing a parhelic circle.  Its a sublime expression of beauty by nature.

      and heres

      A Slice of Cloud

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    • #233651
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Thanks Michael. I enjoyed my vacation and the parhelic was part of it. And the 120 degrees parhelion on top of it! This was the first picture I took in a series of five pictures (here also doing well in B&W) of the great fibratus sky wavering over the trees when I saw this bright spot between the trees.

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      That was the moment I took a wider view and discovered its nature by noticing the parhelic together with a bright sundog. Quickly mounting the wide angle was necessary to capture the whole picture. It was a matter of minutes before it disappeared. These atmospheric optics are sure sublime to experience!

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      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Wow and Wow!! Michael, your gallery cloud on Tuez was a dooz-ie. As is your fibratus wavering sky, Hans. I toast you both with this humble sky brew.

      IMG_5848_BW_Ægir's CupÆgir’s Cup

       

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      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Perfect Rice

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      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      An intoxicating brew, Keelin. Some Perfect Rice is needed to give some ground.

      But what’s that about a gallery cloud on Tuez from Michael, Keelin? I can’t find a clue……..

      2017-09 Charigny_0174 B&W uitsnede ac klein

      The Arrow Of Time Inevitably Pointing To Volume VI Of This Thread

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      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Ah! Sorry to mislead, Hans. I was actually referring to Michael’s featured Cloud of the Day. My error brings a question for Gavin though: Could the Cloud of the Day photos that have been taken by CAS members be added into the Gallery?

      Volume V has been delicious (Perfect Rice and all) — and I trust Volume VI will be a delightful romp for the senses as well. The Arrow of Time is flying swiftly!

      Meanwhile, the great wind eraser made a pass at a lingering contrail… but missed in a few places.

      Contrail_What Remains To Be Seen_horizontal_BWWhat Remains To Be Seen

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