"Ali Sees All"
Lighthouse Point Park Beach, New Haven, CT
Aperture: f/16.0
Shutter speed: 1/800
ISO: 400
It is pouring recklessly now. Puchong rains are of the dank, excretory sort-- the type that squelches everything out on the grey cars rushing by without much regard or consciousness. I have no intention of sullying myself in its noxious watery film. Neither does Russell the camera. Curled up in a sea of blankets, I savor J. Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" one thought bubble a time, slow detachment from the outside mug; eliciting the rawness of a happier day and time where we tried to fly a kite christened Ali after our eccentric housemate to the clouds on that rocksand shore and carefully placed my slippers and your heels away from the tawny salt water, gnawing hunger, kelp, those drafts and that perennial drifting...drifting...
-Darell
Painting with CloudsBelmar, NJ
Soo I cheated again today. Honestly I did take a couple of pictures of the sky today, but this is still by far the best cloud picture in my collection (and my brother agrees). This was taken a while back at the Jersey shore.
I'll try to get you guys some cool pictures over the weekend, since we are travelling. :) Tomorrow we leave Atlanta, Georgia, for Nashville, Tennessee, where my brother goes to school. You guys didn't miss much of Atlanta. The coolest thing we did today was go to this AMAZING farmer's market, which didn't even allow photography. You guys should've seen the produce. They sold food imported from the Caribbean, food imported from Singapore, fresh seafood from all over the world... I even saw fresh rabbit and the BIGGEST watermelon I've ever seen in my life! :) Oh, and they sold Blue Mountain coffee, which made me think of all you coffee drinkers on this blog...
Shutter speed: 1/250
Aperture: f/10.0
-Jing
"unclear."
briarwood, new york.
taken from my bedroom,
before the scattered storm broke again.
it was a pretty sexy group of clouds.
aperture: f/6.3|exposure: 1/80
-june.
"Up"
Melbourne University, VIC
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/40s
Edits: Adjusted saturation
A very uninspiring day for cloud spotting. The weather was crap (contrary to what this picture suggests). It was cloudy right behind me! Anyway, today was an off day. I hope to find a better representation of the theme when I trawl Melbourne once more. I know it's out there!
I increased the saturation in the picture to highlight the orange-red balloon that caught whilst floating into the welcoming arms of the clouds. Instead, it got caught by the big bad tree.
- Jian
*Original"Stairway to Heaven"
Gillman Heights, Singapore
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure Time: 1/800
Edits: Increased contrast
It's fun looking at clouds. I like trying to see if I can spot various shapes and animals in them. After walking around for a bit, I spotted this cluster of clouds! Looks like a path right up to the heavens, doesn't it?
*Increasing the contrast makes the picture seem more surreal, more mythical-looking...as if this image was taken right from a scene in a fairytale :)
~Tian
6 comments:
Crikey. That looks like one heck of a storm brewing there!!!!!!
:D
fooooooooooood, jinger--did you save me any pie?
June: I did note that the clouds produced a line with a negative gradient. It really shows how the weather was realllyyy gonna go downhill =) Melbourne's clouds do not really give such scientific indicators unfortunately!
Jing: That's the shizzllee i wanted to capture! It looks like an angel's wings. Nicccceee=)
darell, so poetic (and so cute that you named your camera)!
jian, that was such a nerdy comment. (i'm actually just jealous that i have no idea what you're talking about.)
Tian: Hey I get what you mean by editing pictures! I feel this moral obligation not to edit but it looks so surreal at times. Blergh. If only I could take pictures like that without editing!
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