PhotoPost: Cloudscapes

Here are some assorted cloudscapes taken this past Sunday morning, after another one of our incessant rainstorms had passed. I never get tired of taking photos of the moon or of cloudscapes. (Cloudscapes have been the background images on AllThingsMike since the very beginning in 1999.)

There isn't much to "caption" with these shots. They were all taken within a half hour from vantage points along the Pacific Coast Highway in the Lomita/Torrance area where I live.

I believe I had the wide angle lens on for all the photos in this series, the better to get a wider view of the sky. On some of these I am editing out power lines, etc, like in the bottom left corner here, for my webshots albums, but these are "as photographed".

This one is my favorite, with the sun peeking through. On Sunday, after taking these, I opened my image editing program, and created a fantastic composite using this photo, but sadly, my puter experienced memory overload, and I "lost" the composite image when a crash occured.

It was actually difficult to find open areas along the highway in which to take uncluttered views, sans power lines, etc. That's the awful part of living in an urban area when you want to photograph nature, even it it's straight up in the air. At times, I'll drive up "on the hill" in Palos Verdes, to get a better shot, but by then the cloudscape I want to photograph has already "disappeared" into a less fantastic shot.  I wanted to get some cloudscapes yesterday as well, but didn't take the camera to work, and was too tired after getting home, and didn't go out again.

(NOTE: I don't know why you can't click on these images to get the full size ones and don't have the time right now to go into HTML and tweak the code, esp. since I uploaded these to the Xanga server instead of my own.)