Monday, August 26, 2013

Wow, nature's wonders to behold.

And it's only fog.



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10 comments:

ndspinelli said...

When I was a juvenile probation officer in KC I had a kid on my caseload who was from Newfoundland. He didn't fit in so he acted out, stealing 8 tracks and CB's from cars. His mother felt so guilty about moving the family from Newfoundland to marry a man. They had a great accent. I often wonder what became of all these kids. This kid was 16 years old in 1976 so he's 53 now!!

Great clip.

deborah said...

Amazing. I love the way clouds and fog take on marvelous shapes that mimic regular water. Like when you can see clouds that look exactly like they have waves in them.

Somewhere I have some pics of fog that looks exactly like black mountains (I was driving up into the mountains at the time).

Methadras said...

That's always cool to see. Nature is an awesome thing and can be deadly and beautiful at the same time. If you want to see the beauty and deadly part, pyroclastic flows and soil liquefaction are good examples of that.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I have seen fog in San Francisco roll down the streets in the evening and go around corners. Sometimes the fog gets little eddies that make every slow mini funnels of fog. It is beautiful but also somewhat sinister...like the scene in the Ten Commandments where the first borns all die in Egypt.

Amartel said...

This is my view on many evenings, and mornings, as the fog rolls in off/out over the Pacific from the hills on the SF peninsula. Can see it in real time, no time lapse photography needed. Very cool. Literally.

edutcher said...

In the Aleutians, fog rolls in so fast, an area can be socked in within 5 minutes.

As they said, pilots were old or bold, never both.

JAL said...

Now that's a fog bank.

Phil 314 said...

I have seen fog in San Francisco roll down the streets in the evening and go around corners

The fog comes on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Chip Ahoy said...

So why don't you get out your dadgum cameras and photograph these marvelous fogs of which you speak? Enticing us with marvels beheld and withheld.I would love to see fog do those things.

Pull out your phone.

This one is cool because it is clear all around so there's contrast. Fog against fog, not so much.

But, electronic cameras these days are great for that.

I made a terrible and stupid mistake out at Weld. I'm so used to shooting on manual it never occurred to me to use automatic. Even when questioned. Even though I already know the camera is better at clouds than I. The electronics these days are brilliant. If I would just turn it to automatic and let it figure it out. It always ALWAYS does better with dramatic clouds. And I forgot the thing even has automatic. d'oh.

Worse. And I'm kicking my butt because the clouds were so dramatic that day, they meant everything to what made that day incredible, tight double rainbow with us right in it, worst of all, the lens I had on is made for that specific thing. They brag about its inside coating ED for 'extra dispersion' or something, to help correct for the cross reflections that occur inside the barrel when taking in light that is highly dispersed by gray clouds all around, and being more wide open and slower for that odd light. The wave/particles reflect all over the place inside the tube back and forth before hitting the sensor, a coating inside the tube barrel lessens that. That was active for my shots, and my saving grace, but they would have been even better on automatic. Or with a polarizer.

Incidentally, earlier today I watched a portion of an old video the poster was excited about, something having to do with "two slit" theory that dramatically changes everything, even reality itself.

Scientists have a small device that attenuates a laser to one photon. The path the photon takes can pass through one of two slits before hitting a wall, its spot recorded, a pattern emerges through the slits that is the same pattern that occurs without slits and that blew peoples' minds.

But not mine.

Because they're both at the same time. Why wouldn't it hit or miss a slit and result in the same pattern made by un-blocked pulses?

Silly humans. That's not mind-blowing. The scientist says right off he attenuated the wave to one photon, he eliminated the rest of the wave. The photon traveled as a wave but without the rest of the wave that was removed for observation. The dot is behaving as if it still belong on a wavy line of dots. A million of those and you get your wave pattern back that matches the pattern that just a few shots of non-stripped-to-one-dot- waves show. Each dot starts off waving and continues waving until it hits. That's how I explained it to myself as I watched the video and that is why I lost interest so fast.

Chip Ahoy said...

Because they're both at the same time.

They are both wave and particle at the same time.