“No Sky,” Yet Still Sky Exists?

August 23, 2009 in Blogging, Cranky, Facts About Patient Anonymous, Life is Stranger Than Fiction, Technology Sucks, You Decide

Indeed, it has still been cloudy and raining all night at the observatory.  However, I did manage to take two shots that I would like to show you.

After one downpour, we actually had a full arch rainbow! However, don’t get too excited.  Those are so hard to photograph–at least with PAs Digital SLR! Absolutely! Or even many or any a camera! Their spread can be so massive! Not to mention, they don’t last that long.

So here is the best one, of the last, final, disappearing portion of the rainbow.

So what do you think?

I tried to capture it in the best way possible with the contrast of the dark sky to bring out the colours of the spectrum even more.  Then, something more interesting happened.  Clouds started to drift around the landscape so I played a bit with that as quickly as I could so here, you will see some clouds above the trees.

I am not a fan of photographing “landscapes” and what not however…

…I won’t be too harsh a judge in certain circumstances?

I don’t like to toot my own horn.  In fact, I don’t even think I have a horn to toot, except for some, cheap thing someone gave me at a New Year’s Eve Party years ago that was only made of cardboard.

But still.  I took this shot just fucking around because there was nothing else to do.  I was surprised, though.  And again…not much into “horn tooting” but I kind of like this.  The sun was setting at a certain point in time, therefore the colours and the clouds, refractions, reflections…? All different, so many variables.  J. even said I should use it as wallpaper for my computer! ACK!

What can I say?

Neither of these photos have been “touched.”  I’ve just uploaded them and plopped them onto my blog.  But this one? As the rollover I made…Ominous Sky? That’s it.  Sunset and cloud patterns and light.  Due to distance and settings, I did need some assistance via my flash but none of these pictures have been digitally altered in any way.

So…”some sky?” At least.