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Postby duncan » Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:45 pm

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Postby Fake Plastic Steve » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:21 am

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sunset over stevenston

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same place, a little later on, this is also my desktop picture
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Postby martin » Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:54 am

Inverness and the Moray Firth
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Sadly the only camera I had on me was the rather dodgy one on my phone..
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Postby JamesMc » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:40 pm

From my window a few weeks back, Sunset over the Gorbals

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Postby Gazzathecoigne » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:44 pm

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Postby gap74 » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:59 pm

Nice pics Pgcc, and I'm glad I wasn't the only one to spot the rather odd clouds tonight.

Was out myself with the dog, enjoying a little roaming in the gloaming, when I started taking a few pics of the local bing, which was looking fairly picturesque with the sunset reflecting off it. Not exactly Ayers Rock, but I know, but I like it!

Anyways, I spotted something odd happening in the background...

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The bing - such a shame, I think, that they're gonna flatten it for yet more twee houses. From this angle, though, the clouds on the left looked realy odd, especially compared to the darker cloud on the right. This view is looking roughly north.

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Climbing to the top of the bing, it became apparent that the biggest, densest, dirtiest big cloud I've seen in ages was creeping westwards over the city, advancing on the Campsies in the distance. In the west, however, a glorious sunset was reflecting off the vertical face of the cloud, making it eerily glowing!

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Looking northeast, towards Uddingston, the trailing face of this front was moodily moving in, with the stub of a rainbow just visible in the middle.

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Annoyingly, I had no reason when I left to have brought my wide angle lens, so was struggling to get a true representation of the scale of this thing!

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And still the sun set fabulously in the west...

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...and the further below the horizon it dipped, the redder its reflection became.

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The evil cloud set it's sights on the water towers!

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And the sun finally fled over the horizon...

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I returned to ground level. The light under the cloud was really spooky, a great sense of impending doom that I couldn't really capture on camera - it felt like how I imagine a full solar eclipse to be, as if it should be light, but it's dark, if you know what I mean! These last two shots taken at an old abandoned farm kinda come close - although very grey and dark indeed, there was still light reflected everywhere from the clearer sunset in the west, as on the grain silo here.

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Had to lighten this one up a wee bit, but it gives a good idea of the light under the dirty big black cloud.

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Postby Speedbird » Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:16 pm

I noticed it from Dumbarton, but I didn't have my camera with me at the time (I was out with the woof) walking round the castle at low tide.

I was so busy watching the nice sunset in the west - all blues and yellows, that, when I came round the end of the castle and saw what was to the east, I was amazed!!

It was just a mass of red and dark grey cloud hanging menacingly right over Glasgow. The sky was a trully threateningly dark tone of grey (almost black in places), and it got very dark very quickly after that.

It would have been better if I had been closer to Glasgow, but I saw it nonetheless.

A picture of Erskine Bridge would have been nice against it I thought.
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Postby purplegrum » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:55 am

I noticed it driving into Glasgow on the A77 and it was absolutely amazing, if I hadn't been doing 60MPH at the time I'd have probably tried to take a picture.

Never seen anything like that before.
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Postby PlasticDel » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:50 pm

That second one there is fantastic Purplegrum! :D

Gorgeous, looks like a painting.
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Postby Fossil » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:17 pm

..ooo nice PG. did you fiddle :? :)

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Postby purplegrum » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:20 pm

how do you mean?
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Postby Fossil » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:24 pm

PS, just to bring those nice lilacs out... remind's me of those old photos at dusk of Glasgow city centre

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Postby purplegrum » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:29 pm

The only things I did were to scale it down and sharpen it a bit, didn't touch anything else!
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Postby gap74 » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:29 pm

Ooh, I noticed that surprising streak of pinky sunset this afternoon from the slightly different vantage point of West Regent Street outside the Odeon - I'm presuming it wasn't on a tripod, what's your secret of keeping the damn thing so still for longer exposures like that??

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Postby purplegrum » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:31 pm

I just lent against the wall of the shop my g/f was in, although I don't think the exposure was that long - I used it on full auto just for quickness.
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