Set 6 of My
Favorite Cloud Photographs
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
I carry relatively new Cannon cameras in our cars.
On top my desk is a Sony camera that I've used for over 15 years. It's original
rechargeable battery
never dies. In September I finalized the mini disk that's been
in the camera since last winter. Out of the 88 photographs on the disk I will
show you a
few of what I think are my better shots --- mostly clouds that appeared in front
of me while I worked at my desk.
Clouds add a lot to most photographs
This is an early springtime shot showing lower clouds white and higher clouds of
blue and gray in the early morning
Notice the flag in our front yard
None of my photographs are retouched unless I tell you so (except possibly to
remove a flash spot)
Some of the pictures below show reflections from the window glass in front of my
desk.
Sometimes the clouds appear in layers over the
mountains
Mt. Lafayette is part of the Appalachian Trail above
timberline
Cannon Mountain has over 90 ski trails
Clouds often obscure the mountain tops
Clouds sometimes obscure the entire mountains and
make it look like we have a lake out front (over the valley)
Sometimes the clouds look like snow piles
The plumes of snow below are not clouds
These are plumes of snow Cannon makes for selected ski trails
http://nhsprojectweek.blogspot.com/2014/03/mountain-mechanics-making-and.html
Clouds can turn sunrises into spectacular sunrises
This is when I tease Erika by saying her relatives are back for their handouts
Eric mows and trims my front lawn
I mow my back lawn (with less trimming)
In the winter Eric manages (an owns) a ski shop near Loon Mountain
The Invention of Clouds: Goethe’s Poems
for the Skies and His Heartfelt Homage to the Young Scientist Who Classified
Clouds ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/07/the-invention-of-clouds-luke-howard-hamblyn/
If I should ever cease to be amazed and enraptured by the magic of clouds, I should wish myself dead. And I am hardly alone — since the dawn of our species, the water cycle’s most visible expression in the skies has bewitched artists, poets, and scientists like as a beautiful natural metaphor for the philosophy that there in an inherent balance to life, that what we give will soon be replenished. More than two millennia before poet Mark Strand and painter Wendy Mark joined forces on their breathtaking love letter to clouds, before Georgia O’Keeffe extolled the beauty of the Southwest skies, before scientists figured out why cloudy days help us think more clearly, the great ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote: “They are the celestial Clouds, the patron goddesses of the layabout. From them come our intelligence, our dialectic and our reason.” Indeed, there is a singular quality of prayerfulness to clouds — a certain secular reverence undergirding their allure to both art and science.
Continued in article
More of Bob Jensen's Cloud Photographs
First Set of White Mountain Cloud Favorite Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/CloudFavorites/Set01/Clouds01.htmSecond Set of White Mountain Cloud Favorite Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CloudFavorites/Set02/CloudFavoritesSet02.htmThird Set of White Mountain Cloud Favorite Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CloudFavorites/Set03/CloudFavoritesSet03.htmFourth Set of White Mountain Cloud Favorite Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CloudFavorites/Set04/CloudFavoritesSet04.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Autumn and Foliage
Links
See when it actually feels like autumn where you live ---
http://time.com/4043133/is-it-fall-yet/?xid=newsletter-brief
The chart does not accept zip codes or small towns. It's best to enter the name
of a country or a USA State to see what cities are linked.
Where I live in northern New Hampshire our furnace usually kicks back in in
mid-September, but the foliage season usually does not make traveling up here
worthwhile until October.
Bob Jensen's Foliage Pictures
(Scroll down to the Foliage section) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
The Best Places To See Fall
Foliage In The US ---
http://www.fodors.com/news/photos/10-best-fall-foliage-trips-in-the-us#!1-intro#ixzz3EQRiqEq6
Autumn Foliage Interactive Map
for the Entire USA (most of the leaves have now fallen in the north, but there's
a bit of color left)---
http://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/
Foliage in New Hampshire's White Mountains ---
http://www.nhliving.com/foliage/index.shtml
Fall Foliage ---
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/fallfoliage/l/blfoliagecentrl.htm
Foliage Pictures ---
http://photo.net/travel/us/ne/foliage
Blogs of White
Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691
.
White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
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---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
New Hampshire Historical Society --- http://www.nhhistory.org
Clement Moran Photography
Collection (antique New Hampshire photographs) ---
Click Here
http://www.library.unh.edu/digital/islandora/solr/search/moran/1/category%3APhotographs~slsh~Clement%5C%20Moran%5C%20Collection%2A~/dismax
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