The Next Window

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. NOTE: Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order, including within a post, since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order. The photo series stretches across multiple web pages.

The photo show is almost over — the sun is on its way quickly… it’s now 7:25pm (19:25).

Atill a few clouds and a little blue; looking away from the sun.

The fire in the sky takes on a personality here, with the picture I call the face of fire.

None of these photos have any post-processing, PhotoShop’ing, editing, or filters applied during or after the photo was taken, just resizing to 512×384 for posting to the blog.
The sky and trees really looked like this!

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. NOTE: Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order, including within a post, since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order. The photo series stretches across multiple web pages.

The photo show is almost over — the sun is on its way quickly…

Another neat tree view.

With the sun almost down, the light reflected from the thick cloud bank becomes fire in the sky.

None of these photos have any post-processing, PhotoShop’ing, editing, or filters applied during or after the photo was taken, just resizing to 512×384 for posting to the blog.
The sky and trees really looked like this!

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. NOTE: Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order, including within a post, since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order. The photo series stretches across multiple web pages.

These three photos are more of my favorites from this series — well, actually, I like them all <grin>

A little glow, a little blue, and darkness

Another neat tree view.

Backlit by the sun, some of the clouds begin to close on the glow.

None of these photos have any post-processing, PhotoShop’ing, editing, or filters applied during or after the photo was taken, just resizing to 512×384 for posting to the blog.
The sky and trees really looked like this!

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. NOTE: Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order.

One of my favorite pictures from this series, the tree in shadows, backlit by dark-glowing clouds, pure blue sky, bright glow and dark wispy clouds. This picture has it all.

Another view of the backlit clouds. The (earlier) picture below is a tighter zoom of the glow.

Backlit by the sun, some of the clouds begin to take on a glow.

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. NOTE: Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order.

During some of the darkest clouds, we get a little bit of blue sky, too.

Another view of the red tree and sky, showing the contrasts of light and dark — and the intereresting light effects — of the incoming storm.

This is the same “red tree” as earlier, still a light effect on this normally-green tree. The wicked-looking clouds are still moving in.

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. NOTE: Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order.

Yes, that’s the real visible color. No, it’s not retouched and I did not use any filters on the Canon G2. That same tree was its usual shade of green a few minutes before this.

Two pines and the golden oak. The gold color is from the sky — before and afterwards, the tree was green. This was April, so this was not Fall foliage (and we have two colors for leaves in Baton Rouge — green and brown).

With this photo, we begin to see the approaching storm as it comes wisping in…

More in the series of Storm Light effects from the afternoon of April 1, 2005. Continuing the practice, the photos are in reverse chronological order since the blog will put the posts in reverse chronological order.

Is this what they mean by the “eye of the storm?”

Yet, in the other direction, the “golden tree” still shines, but the overall sky is becoming darker and now we have a deeper gold.

With this photo, we begin to see the approaching storm

This is the start of a series of photos from the same afternoon, April 1, 2005. I took these photos from my back yard after seeing the ligt effects on the “golden” tree.

Since the blog operates in reverse chronological order, that’s the way the pictures will appear, too — including within any posting.

Almost clear sky — with this photo, you’d think this was a normal day.

Clear Sky before the Storm.

This tree normally is a deep green, and was after the sky changed back to normal. This amazing color was the trigger for me to run grab the camera.

The lighting effects and sky will be much more dramatic. Despite the dramatic view, there never was any rain.

Again, this whole series of photos were taken on one afternoon with a Canon G2, without any special filters or other pre-exposure effects. The camera was in “snapshot” mode for the whole series of 22 pictures that I plan to post. The only post-processing was resizing from 2272×1704 to 512×384.

These two photos were the same day as the previous photo, again in my back yard.

The camera was a Canon G2 operating in automatic mode.

This was a fun shot in the back yard early last year. This section of older fence spent the mornings in the shade of a large oak tree and only got direct sun for two or three hours a day.

The relationship to web design is simply that this is a test of actually putting a photo into a Serendipity blog.