Capture: Got the blues
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This one doesn't need any words, but I have to write something or my photo won't load. What shall I do?
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Harakeke in the blue...
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ChrisW, in reply to
Harakeke a surprise from Denmark - and surprisingly narrow upright blades - I wondered whether this might be a response to Danish winters.
But then, aha! - I see evidence of a (SI) West Coast context for such a photo from a previous post of yours.
Not Danish harakeke in the Danish blue ... -
Trawling the blue archives.
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West Coast again, harakeke and kahikatea and all. The blue sky amplified by reflection in the dark water of Lake Paringa.
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Biobbs, in reply to
But then, aha! - I see evidence of a (SI) West Coast context for such a photo from a previous post of yours.
Oops, I'd forgotten that I'd posted that other photo. Not meaning to be repetitious. But I do love my harakeke. And my raupo. And all my other water plants. That particular harakeke is at Lake Tomarata, north of Auckland, and is some of the tallest I've ever seen, with those very soft and upright leaves.
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ChrisW, in reply to
No need for an oops - and your photo certainly not repetitious (though far be it from me to suggest anything of the sort?)
Good to know the site too. Do you know Kendrick Smithyman's poem 'Tomarata'? I've been to similar places perhaps in the North, but feel I know much about (Lake) Tomarata the place as itself as well as more broadly from this great poem. Actually going there is on the list too.
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From today
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Angel in the architecture?
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Lilith __, in reply to
Falling angel?!
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Proof the earth is round. 2 out of 3 boats below the horizon, and one on it, to prove it's not just an intervening wave. Maximum zoom, by hand. I expected this shot to be blurry, but the powerful light must have meant a really short shutter speed.
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Lost in the dunes at dusk, south of Dunedin. The thistles were taller than me!
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Lilith __, in reply to
Amazing shot. I wonder if we’re seeing a mirage, though?
ETA: this sort of thing.
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I don't usually want so much sky, but it was really quite striking yesterday.
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BenWilson, in reply to
You had me wondering for a second. All three are on exactly the same tack. But here's one taken from higher up about 45 mins earlier (ain't having a clock in your camera great!), of the same three sailboats, and it's clearer that they are all distinct vessels.
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Lilith __, in reply to
You had me wondering for a second. All three are on exactly the same tack. But here’s one taken from higher up about 45 mins earlier (ain’t having a clock in your camera great!), of the same three sailboats, and it’s clearer that they are all distinct vessels.
You will be viewing on a different angle to the air layers from higher up. I think the one on the right in the first image is clearly affected with an inverted mirage: the ropes below the sail are impossibly long. I'm puzzled by the middle one as it's so close to the boat on the left, but assume the same mechanism is distorting its appearance.
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And since this thread is supposed to be about the sky!
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BenWilson, in reply to
OIC you're suggesting the inability to see the hulls might be exacerbated by miraging rather than that one boat is a mirage of the other.
I'll give a crop for discussion. There was some miraging on the horizon that I can clearly see in other shots, so there's some truth in what you're saying. The rear sun-tent on the rightmost boat does seem stretched at the bottom, which is probably mirage, and that may have hidden some of the top edge of the hull. It does seem to have an unduly high boom. But the middle boat is all sails. They're stretched a bit, I think, but not enough to hide the entire hull, which is quite large (it was a much larger vessel than the other two, several kilometers further away). It was below the horizon, which is only about 5km away from me standing with my feet in the water.
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Blue sky with gannet.
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Extremely high flying kite over Richmond Park (in January I think). Full zoom (24x). Very hard to know how high it was, but my guess is that it was several hundred meters up. The strings were completely invisible, and other people, when I told them where it was, took quite some time picking it out against the sky. It was straight above me, and I only saw it because I was lying on my back on the grass under a tree. Could not ascertain where the pilot was. I think it's one of those really big ones, a couple of meters across. A bit cheeky to fly it over a suburban area, but hey, I expect most people never saw it.
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Lilith __, in reply to
the middle boat is all sails. They’re stretched a bit, I think, but not enough to hide the entire hull, which is quite large (it was a much larger vessel than the other two, several kilometers further away). It was below the horizon, which is only about 5km away from me standing with my feet in the water.
5km seems a pretty sort distance for you to be seeing the earth curve.
The thing with mirages is that they usually work by stacking inverted and upright images, not by stretching. So I presume the boat with all sails and no hull has maybe more than one layer of mirage. Mirages, as here, can make portions of an object seem to disappear.
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California blue sky
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Blue sky with gannet.
looks quite unreal!
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Lilith __, in reply to
Sorry Ben, I don't mean to be a pain about this, but I'm really fascinated. Would you care to send it off to Les and see what his thoughts are? I've found him very responsive to questions.
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Blue sky thread? Summer thread? Blue sky thread?
More California blue...
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