Daily Photo – Fourteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale

October 13, 2012
Black and White / Travel

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The vertical framing of this shot has changes the overall exposure with the layer of cloud above the aircraft more dark and ominous looking. The sun is setting on the far side of the cloud wall with rays of sunlight streaking through the gaps in the clouds lighting them up like they're on fire while sheets of rain fall on the communities just inland of the coast.

Daily Photo – Fifteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale

October 12, 2012
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But looking back I got this fantastic view of the sunlight from the setting sun streaming through the gap in the clouds with sheets of rain from the storm falling just inland from the coast. I once again turned to my Canon S100 to capture the scene. From the features on the ground, the aircraft would have been over or just south of Eisenhower, Lehigh Acres, Florida. You can make out the Gulf coast and the southern end of Estero Bay between the two sheets of rain in the center of the photo.

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2

October 11, 2012
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The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is a shade over 500 miles per hour (all things being equal) so we'd traveled about eight miles closer to the cloud wall. Add to that the cloud wall was moving west, towards us and that yields the change in the cloud shapes between the two photo-sets.

Daily Photo – Generations

October 9, 2012
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Here's the last in this series taken at a street theater in Georgetown, Penang on August 4, 1989. The only illumination on the audience was the spill of the stage lights so this is an available light shot sot on ISO 100 Fuji Provia. My guess is that the boy is the grandson of the bespectacled gent in whose lap his is sitting.

Daily Photo – Boys in the Crowd

October 8, 2012
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There weren't any 'parental controls' at this street theater performance in Georgetown, Penang. Despite the knife and sword play on the stage no one seemed concerned that there were children in the audience. Despite all the adults around, it's a young boy that is holding up an even younger boy so he can see while a third boy stands behind them, his gaze firmly on the scene unfolding before him. I wonder if they'd ever seen anything like this before.

Daily Photo – Watching Me Watching You

October 7, 2012
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As I mentioned yesterday, because I didn't understand the play unfolding before me on the streets of Georgetown, Penang, I turned my lens on the audience. Clearly this didn't amuse everyone. The guy in the middle looks particularly annoyed with me while the two men flanking him are also looking directly at me.