Sky High

Just got back from a summer vacation trip to visit some family. Got a few interesting photos along the way. My favorites were a bunch of stormy weather, very interesting clouds I got one day late in the trip.

The all-seeing eye? Nope. Just a large roadside sculpture, leading down a highway with 6 more very large metal sculptures. Some are pretty nice, some are just - unique. But they're all big!

A nice train relief on a building (actually at a rest area!). I toned it, but the actual color of the building itsn't much different than the photo.

Catch the buzz! Nice close up of a bee on a flower at my brother's house. Besides the bees there were literally squadrons of big dragonflies around but I didn't manage to get any photos of them.

The first of my stormy day photos. They were all shot in HDR. I tweaked the color to make it a little more bluish. I really like how all the cloud effects really pop out in HDR. Though sometimes it can be a bit 'much'.

Another shot, in this one you can see part of a rainbow near the ground.

I was shooting in a yard that borders a horse pasture. And there were several horses and ponies out in the field. They weren't quite as interested in the clouds as I was.

Its a storm-o-rama! This is a 180 degree view, composited from 4 photos. Really interesting sky, in-between running for cover from rain showers, which there was no shortage of either! Some pretty heavy downpours in fact. But I didn't get any of those tricky lightning shots.

Plants Ablaze

Went out tonight to take July 4th Fireworks photos. Had a pretty good show, with a really good blazing, exploding finale. But the whole show overall seemed a bit shorter. Probably shorter to save money?

Took quite a few photos, I picked out a couple that all kind of remind me of plants. But plants made out of blazing trails of light!

This one looks to me like a big purple flower. With a stem and leaves.

Tumbleweed - that's what I'm calling this one! Big and spiky.

Wrapping it up with a nice, peaceful Palm tree. Time to head for the beach!