I got my photo published!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:36 pm

Hey, you're published, Steve! Congrats, and great pic, too.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:45 pm

Nice pic ... I guess ... its a bit .... er ..... nebulous ..... innit?

djm

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:37 pm

Gorgeous photo--no wonder it was picked for publication. Congratulations!

Carol

BillChin · Post by **BillChin** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:33 pm

That is quite a picture. I've taken about 1000 pictures of sunsets, none are quite like that one. Wow.

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:02 am

Steve that is a beautiful picture..I am gonna use it as a desktop backgroun on my PC do I have your permission to do so?
Regards
uilliam

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:15 am

That's a superb photo Steve. Photogenic cloud too, eh.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:41 am

All I did was point my cheapie 4-megapixel Olympus up and shoot - I don't think I messed about with the pic apart from a bit of judicious cropping. Here's another I took a couple of minutes before (that's my wife Nicky on the beach, slightly left of centre!):

I think the cloud is a thick wodge of cirrus and/or cirrocumulus. You can see blue sky through it on the right of the pic.

And this one was taken a few minutes later, as it was getting darker.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:54 am

I think it is cumulus or cumulonimbus. Cirrus clouds are a bit higher up in the atmosphere. Brilliant photos Steve! Congratulations on their publication!!

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:12 am

Yep. Cool. I like good cloud pics.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:20 am

Joseph E. Smith wrote:I think it is cumulus or cumulonimbus. Cirrus clouds are a bit higher up in the atmosphere. Brilliant photos Steve! Congratulations on their publication!!

They were not cumuliform clouds - they were just high clouds lit up from underneath by the setting sun. You can occasionally get high ice-clouds like cirrus in much thicker masses than usual. I think that's what they were. It was an elongated bank of cloud running more or less along the coastline - perspective makes it seem to taper into the distance. It had been a fine day.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:49 am

SteveShaw wrote:You can occasionally get high ice-clouds like cirrus in much thicker masses than usual.

I think you are right here, Steve. Cirrus-type clouds can get piled up along the edge of a body of air of a significantly different temperature.

djm

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:16 am

Flyingcursor wrote:Yep. Cool. I like good cloud pics.

I do too. Clouds are so beautiful.

One of my friends took that cloud picture.

He said it means that God approves of gay marriage, because it appeared in the sky in Oregon and Washington last Tuesday at the very time that the Senate defeated the Federal Marriage Amendment.

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:25 am

Congratulations Steve! Great photo.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:28 am

Gorgeous, Steve! I was thinking about clouds this morning (being a Proud Member of the Cloud Appreciation Society, you know), watching a massive pile of them over the Wasatch Mountains and wishing I had my camera along. Great job - congratulations!

Susan

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:00 am

Cranberry wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote:Yep. Cool. I like good cloud pics.
I do too. Clouds are so beautiful.

One of my friends took that cloud picture.

He said it means that God approves of gay marriage, because it appeared in the sky in Oregon and Washington last Tuesday at the very time that the Senate defeated the Federal Marriage Amendment.

Is your friend with the Associated Press?