was going home friday and a storm was rolling in. the storm was actually coming from the other direction from this shot, but it was creating some interesting clouds all over. i just had to stop and take some shots :)

was going home friday and a storm was rolling in. the storm was actually coming from the other direction from this shot, but it was creating some interesting clouds all over. i just had to stop and take some shots :)

That had to have been the same storm we had on Thursday night that took out power, felled trees, and put down rain sideways. And the light show was nothing short of amazing. I hope it didn't hit you guys too hard in the "somewhere over there" area in which you live.

BTW, nice pic for painting.

Janet

Edited and added a copy of a local farm road.

This one is about a mile north of Lake Superior, and 3 miles from Two Harbors in Minnesota.

Hey Craig, the meter's running in the cab and your driver's waiting.......:grin:

Steve C.

Steve that is great!

You guys are so clever, I just artified it. :tongue:
Steve- may I ask what you did to simplify the background? it seems like something other than the cutout filter...

Mine is a montage of filters including diffuse, colored pencil, and find edges.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikajomc/2465486969/sizes/o/

Liquid rescaled and some other things. Sorry; only thing that's attached is a little bigger then a thumbnail. Click here (http://www.imageox.com/image/251084-farm-road-.jpeg) for the full rez (over 1MByte) version. :)

gave it a shot

You guys are so clever, I just artified it. :tongue:
Steve- may I ask what you did to simplify the background? it seems like something other than the cutout filter...

Mine is a montage of filters including diffuse, colored pencil, and find edges.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikajomc/2465486969/sizes/o/

Hi "M." The BG is mostly Buzz, but I also used the Paint Shop Pro noise removal tool for more softness.

A big thank you!

Steve C.

I have had a mess around also :)

welcome adarkartist

Steve i bet that's why you can not get a taxi when you want one !

Palms

Wanted to give Holmes' pic a little play, reminded me of the long, country roads Dad had to drive to take us vacationing at Granma's farm up North in the old days.

janet, 'somewhere over there' is western kentucky :) and yes, we got hit but not nearly as hard as some south and west of us. we got four inches of rain in a short period of time. the creeks are all flooded out of their banks again, but thankfully, no tonados like some got. and i see you appreciate a good, old, southern farm road, too :) nice pic.

and gunner, also a nice pic. i didnt mean this to be 'old farm road, post your own' thread, but folks, do feel free. perhaps we can do a collage/montage/composite if we get enough of them ... or start a scrapbooking club... i'm not sure ;)

and steve, i'm not quite sure why that cab is there, but it certainly changes the image. i like it :)

and i see jordan, you've started the rain for us. oh well, it was coming anyway. nice :)

nice lyle. that's quite a play of blue on green there.

adarkartist, interesting. seems the storm must be getting quite a bit closer with all that dark and ominous red clouds. cool :)

and palms, i love yours! very water colory :)

susie, also very nice. i like that you can almost step into the picture, if that makes any sense :)

Gotta love those stormy day lighting.


Here is some filter play.


Alan

cool, alan. another dark one :)

myself, i was real tempted to run this through some hdri software, even if it was only a single shot.

Here's a couple of my attempts. Guess I was in a military mood tonight. It's a flight of three B2 Stealth Bombers, of course they would never fly that close together but........

and steve, i'm not quite sure why that cab is there, but it certainly changes the image. i like it :)



Figured you had to get out there in the country somehow.....and you hopped a cab to save gas money......:grin:

Steve C.

Steve i bet that's why you can not get a taxi when you want one !

Palms

Yeah, Craig said it was about to storm. That always messes up the availability of a taxi.

Steve C.

hehe, gunner, love that second one. it reminds me of when our farm got raided by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency). they were looking for marijuana. it's become common practice for marihoochee growers to plant their plants on farms growing corn. they hide it plant by plant among the tall corn and makes it hard to spot by plane. The DEA had helicopters, trucks and all terrain vehicles combing our fields for plants. they apparently found quite a few, for as i drove in our farm road i could see inside one of their vehicles and it had plants stacked up inside in the back. they never even came and talked with us, though.

hehe, steve :)