Vor einer Woche besuchte ich nach dem Feierabend wieder einmal die Gastlosen. Letzten Sommer war isch schon mal dort, musste dann aber direct nach dem Sonnenuntergang vor einem herannahenden Gewitter fliehen. Dieses Mal sah der Wetterbericht besser aus.

Der Aufstieg war anstrengender als gedacht. Auf dem schattigen Grat lag noch ziemlich viel Schnee. Ich hatte zum Glück genügend Zeit eingeplant und erreichte den Spot dennoch rechtzeitig. Schon nach wenigen Minuten startete eine grandiose Lightshow, welche kurze Zeit später durch das Wolkenband im Westen aber ein jähes Ende fand. Ein paar Bilder von dieser schönen Stimmung konnte ich trotzdem machen. Nach einer Stärkung machte ich mich wieder auf den Weg ins Tal. Runter ging es dank dem Schnee viel, viel schneller…

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Shelf cloud approaching Woolgoolga Headland, on the Mid-North Coast of NSW – Australia.

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Clouds had been appeared in the sky and reflected on the lake. Then it changed its form into strange shapes. The morning glow had begun. Wonderfully beautiful scene!

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It is no secret that i love the Basque country. I even present an exhibition about it! Have a look at this great view from mountain Jaizkibel on this wonderful playground for me to explore! The castle is Igueldo, Donostia-San Sebastian.

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A blizzard comes raging in from the Atlantic Ocean hitting outermost parts of Lofoten.

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Abraham Lake
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Last night, I went out in search of the perfect sunset. The weather of late has been insipid, lacking inspiration and every evening for the last two weeks the sky has been either pure white or a cloudless blue. But I decided to go out last night, whatever the weather.

By the time I got to Portland, the clouds were already beginning to show their teeth. I set up my tripod on the edge of the rocks, waiting to see if any colour bled its way from the sun into the clouds. I began to take a few images, they lacked colour and tone.

It was then, way to my left and out of shot, that I noticed a tornado-like cloud formation begin to form and arch its way across the sky. I waited for a moment and it joined the moody clouds behind the lighthouse. I checked how wide the composition would be – absolutely no chance of shooting all of it at 16mm. I was going to have to go panorama. So I levelled my tripod as fast as I could, wrenching the camera into vertical mode and swinging around to the left. I manually focussed on the rocks in front of me and took my first exposure. I needed to keep the exposure time down as the cloud formation was already becoming diluted and I really didn’t want to miss this shot. I managed to get away with just under 1 second each.

I took an image, panned to the right a tad, took another. I ended up with 8 images. By the time I took the last one of the spiralling clouds to the right of the lighthouse, the tornado-like formation was gone. During the penultimate exposure, the lighthouse came on and I hoped that I had picked up some of the light from it. I had been in the right place at the right time and just about managed to get the shot. It reminds me somewhat of a Milky-Way of clouds, the way the formation arches up from the horizon and across the sky. I have never seen clouds like it, but I was so glad that I was there to capture it.

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