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Friday, May 27, 2011

Posted 10:04 PM by Angie Schultz

Foto Friday: Oh, Chute!


On days I'm not working, I write in my diary on the deck at sunset. I keep my camera with me just in case anything interesting should happen. Yesterday I heard shouting, which is unusual in my neighborhood. Bleating, whinnying, mooing, barking, and cockadoodling -- those are not unusual. But shouting is. So I looked up to see this:


Paragliders at sunset from home, May 2011
Ouch! Do not land in the spiky trees.



Wheeeee! Looks like fun! You go first.



Look, you can see the strings!

There were two yesterday, and two again today. They are aiming for the park below. Sometimes they end up in the neighbor's yard. Sometimes they end up on the highway.

(By the way, the image names say "parasail". Afterwards I realize they are really paragliders. Parasailing is what you do on the water. Oh, well.)

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Posted 5:49 PM by Angie Schultz

Foto Friday: Try Modeling These in Mashed Potatoes



Sunset over the West Maui Mts, May 2011Sunset over the West Maui Mts
May 2011


DOO doo doo doo doooo! The mothership from Close Encounters is about to land.

Again, sometimes a promising sunset just goes bust. This was such a one, except at the last minute the sun peeped through and gave a brooding look to the mountains. I especially like the different colors of dark in the clouds.

Clicky for the larger image; Blogger reduces them, and in this case has degraded the resolution too much.

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Friday, May 06, 2011

Posted 5:16 PM by Angie Schultz

Foto Friday: Tilting at the Windmills of Your Mind



I realize that this sunset looks a lot like the last one:


Sunset from Home, May 2011Sunset from Home, May 2011



But I noticed something interesting while taking it:


Windmills on Puu Kukui, May 2011Windmills on Puu Kukui, May 2011



I hope that's visible. You might have to click to get the full picture, and even then it's not really obvious. (And you can't see it in the first image, because of the loss of resolution when I scaled the image down.)

I'm referring to the shadows cast by the windmills. I saw this even with my elderly eyes, but unfortunately they don't stand out in the photos. I had to fiddle with the contrast quite a bit (getting the colors all out of whack) to get them this clear.

I think that's pretty cool. You have to have the sun in just the right place, and a lot of haze in the atmosphere, to get these. Note that these aren't the windmills' shadows on the mountain, but on the atmosphere itself. I tried taking maximum-zoom images of just these, but strangely that didn't turn out as well. I'll have to see if I can do better with the tripod (once all this damned weather clears).

That second image has a sort of Calvary look to it. You shall not press down upon the brow of prosperity this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of sustainable energy! Hmm, needs work.

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