Day 230: Sturm und Drang

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Aug 182014
 

After a busy day in Atlanta, I dashed off to Piney Woods Church Road in the early evening.  Thunder was already rumbling in the distance, and the air was amazingly muggy — akin to my experiences walking through tropical greenhouses at botanical gardens.  As I continued on my way, the sunlight was dampened by approaching dark clouds.  I took a few photos, including this one, then high-tailed it home again.  There has been thunder nearly continuously since my return, though we have yet to experience the brunt of a storm.

 

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Day 229: Just Before a Storm

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Aug 172014
 

So far this year, I had not found myself on Piney Woods Church Road shortly before a storm.  It is not that I hadn’t hoped for this; rather, my dislike for lightning is greater than my desire for a dramatic image.  Today, though, I was walking with a neighbor down the road, feeling uninspired, when the dark sky of an impending storm practically demanded to be photographed.  The result is this pastoral scene, complete with blooming crepe myrtle, just a couple of minutes before the storm hit.  (I had just enough time to race home along a neighbor’s pasture fence and through the woods.)

 

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Day 204: Late Afternoon Clouds

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Jul 232014
 

I was wandering Piney Woods Church Road late this afternoon, feeling somewhat empty inside despite the sunny skies, not in search of anything in particular (or anything peculiar), when I saw these lovely clouds.  What on first inspection looks like a single tall cloud resolved itself into two clusters of clouds when viewed from a slightly different angle, a little further down the road.

 

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Day Eight: Sunset with Branches and Clouds

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Jan 082014
 

Some of my photographs, such as the ice mural from yesterday, are very much premeditated creations. It was a brutally cold Tuesday afternoon, and I expected to find interesting ice patterns somewhere along Piney Woods Church Road.  Once I saw the marvelous examples of frozen ice bubbles in rut marks, I knew I had my image for the day.  Today’s photograph, on the other hand, was much more serendipitous.  I anticipated a few clouds at sunset, since tomorrow is predicted to be mostly cloudy.  What I did not anticipate (or discover, until I got home and reviewed my photographs) was the image below.  It looks as if the tree branches and clouds are interacting with each other — the tree branches somehow pushing the cloud edges away.

Sunset with Branches and Clouds