South of Java

aliengrove
Posted 02/11/2010 - 16:58 Link
I've been working a lot recently, and consequently not very active either here or with my camera due to a lot of nights working. However, I came across these one morning recently on the way to Australia. The flight was re-routed to the north due to the erupting volcano in the Phillipines.
All taken just south of Java in the western Timor Sea on a K7 and Sigma 18-250mm.

C+C welcome as always.

Storm Spawn

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Nimbus Rising

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South of Java

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paulgee20
Posted 02/11/2010 - 17:02 Link
No 1 for me is an absolutely unreal shot................

Love it


Paul
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ISO
Posted 02/11/2010 - 17:11 Link
No 2 - Beautiful and a frightening sence of height
matwhittington
Posted 02/11/2010 - 18:08 Link
Wow... wish I had a view like that

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fatspider
Posted 02/11/2010 - 18:10 Link
+1 Wow
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fritzthedog
Posted 02/11/2010 - 18:55 Link
make that +2 Wow
No matter how many lenses I have owned - I have always needed just one more
mayday
Posted 02/11/2010 - 19:04 Link
It's ok sitting up the front...Us mere mortals would have engine cowlings, leading edge or flaps messing up our composition from our vantage point in the rear. Lovely cloud formations and sense of space and height...
South of Java Gets my vote
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David

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Edited by mayday: 02/11/2010 - 19:05
Pentaxophile
Posted 02/11/2010 - 19:46 Link
Absolutely... cosmic... shots. So beautiful, just such sad consequences down on the ground
bwlchmawr
Posted 02/11/2010 - 19:49 Link
Astonishing shots, particularly the first one. I've never seen anything quite like it. Would make a fine large print.
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aliengrove
Posted 02/11/2010 - 20:37 Link
Thanks for the comments! It's actually fairly rare to get so lucky with clouds and light at the same time. It was after avoiding storms using the weather radar for hours in the dark that finally, when the sun came up, we had these views, rather than flashes of lightning and a picture on the radar. I hope one day (before I retire) some company (hopefully Pentax?) will produce a camera capable of photographing clouds lit up by lightning!.
Pentaxophile
Posted 02/11/2010 - 22:05 Link
I must have been having a senior moment, I read the bit about the volcano and looked down to the pictures, and thought these were ash clouds from the recent eruptions
aliengrove
Posted 02/11/2010 - 23:38 Link
Pentaxophile wrote:
I must have been having a senior moment, I read the bit about the volcano and looked down to the pictures, and thought these were ash clouds from the recent eruptions
I thought you were referring to the monsoon which has caused so much damage in Pakistan this year
K10D
Posted 03/11/2010 - 05:40 Link
Absolutely, truly incredible shots.

Best regards
Too far from a shore.
i-Berg
Posted 03/11/2010 - 06:36 Link
They just keep getting better Jon!

Next time you're in Melbourne, feel free to let me know, if you have time.
aliengrove
Posted 03/11/2010 - 08:34 Link
Thanks for the comments!
I will be in Melbourne again at the end of the month again I-berg and Jackie will be with me. I will pm you the dates be great to meet up if you are around. This last trip I was called out at short notice.

Going to Shanghai tonight so hoping to get a few shots of the Himalayas on the way weather permitting.

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