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Muskrat
Senior Member
- Location
- Mainly arizona
Well it is raining again! This is such a treat for me. Rare. So…got apple cobbler in the oven and sloppy joes for dinner. Do hope it is not pouring when I take my sister to the airport…that would not be so very fun…
David777
Well-known Member
- Location
- Silicon Valley
Per above, post processed my images from yesterday's hike in the rain work. Deleted 2 subjects due to too much leaf movement but 3 fungi subjects were strong. The below downsized for web image, a 2 frame stitch blend, from the 4000 by 9300 pixel original, is door poster sized. Fungi on a coast live oak trunk with moss. If I had known these two were the only trees I'd come upon, I'd have shot them a bit more.
(right Mouse select "Open Image in New Tab", then + )
Here is a 1200 by 1200 100% pixels crop from the above showing the fine detail:
Downsized for web with the original 4100 by 6150 pixels, a single frame subject. This tree trunk was near the other and there was plenty more I could have worked. About a 1.5 mile walk I just may return to:
Downsized for web with the original, a single frame of 6150x4100 pixels. These mushrooms were large, but have not yet looked up the species and all were growing on a tree trunk and its roots. Same color as banana slugs. The wet elements from all our rains made landscape elements extra saturated with color. An advantage to working in such wet conditions.
Here is a 1200 by 1200 100% pixels crop of the mushrooms at frame right, showing the real detail. A rather awkward tripod set up.
(right Mouse select "Open Image in New Tab", then + )
Here is a 1200 by 1200 100% pixels crop from the above showing the fine detail:
Downsized for web with the original 4100 by 6150 pixels, a single frame subject. This tree trunk was near the other and there was plenty more I could have worked. About a 1.5 mile walk I just may return to:
Downsized for web with the original, a single frame of 6150x4100 pixels. These mushrooms were large, but have not yet looked up the species and all were growing on a tree trunk and its roots. Same color as banana slugs. The wet elements from all our rains made landscape elements extra saturated with color. An advantage to working in such wet conditions.
Here is a 1200 by 1200 100% pixels crop of the mushrooms at frame right, showing the real detail. A rather awkward tripod set up.
KSav
Senior Member
- Location
- North Dakota
My ex is a meteorologist. (Every yard at every house we lived in had a rain gauge stuck into the ground.) Both rain and snow are quite hard to measure because of the wind. The snow up here is very hard to accurately measure because we almost always get a light snow, and the winds often gust up to 30–45 mph (48–72 kmh). Seeing a patch of land that is virtually bare and then, just a few feet away, a snowdrift that is several feet high, is not unusual here.
That is a lot of rain you got, @StarSong!
With respect to today, it's a quiet day for me; I'm just working . . . and trying to get motivated to work, which isn't going so well.
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
- Location
- Los Angeles Suburbs
There was virtually no wind with this storm. As I said, my experience has been that rain is always underreported, and significantly so. If I didn't have a backyard pool with a water level I can easily see, I might not be so skeptical. But since I can, I am.
I grew up with snow and agree about varying heights due to drifts.
David777
Well-known Member
- Location
- Silicon Valley
Southwest desert wildflowers are certain to soon go into an uncommon bloom cycle like last occurred in 2016 or 9 years ago. Thus am likely to do some long road trips by late January with Death Valley National Park and Anza Borrego State Park within the Sonora Desert, the first to show reports that will be at DesertUSA. Antelope Valley also saw its second good rains this fall and Carrizo Plain National Monument has had its best rains in more than a decade.
In any case, it is early in the wet season, that will merely knock annual seeds out of dormancy while perennials that are storing water in their roots, are certain to go big by late winter. The annuals will only go big if we receive more rains in January when winter temperatures begin rising.
The below was in Anza Borrego in 2005 when I was using a 4x5 view camera. One of the most awesome experiences for those of us that love nature, is to be in our Southwest deserts after rare wet winters.
In any case, it is early in the wet season, that will merely knock annual seeds out of dormancy while perennials that are storing water in their roots, are certain to go big by late winter. The annuals will only go big if we receive more rains in January when winter temperatures begin rising.
The below was in Anza Borrego in 2005 when I was using a 4x5 view camera. One of the most awesome experiences for those of us that love nature, is to be in our Southwest deserts after rare wet winters.