Enchanted Ceiling
Busy Sky - The usual walk into work from the car parked in the north forty netted this very busy looking sky. (09/02/09)
Let's Go Krogering - Taken on way to do our weekly grocery shopping on a Friday night (06/19/09)
Wispy - Very delicate clouds in a bright blue sky. (11/17/05)
Pull On The Tarp - An attept at watching a Kannapolis Intimidators minor league ball game was postponed by rain. (05/26/06)
Parking Lot Light - Another classic Enchanted Ceiling submission. Walking into work this morning I took a few shots. Tried to mix it up a little and highlight the parking lot lights as a reference point instead of the line of pines I usually use. I'll probably post at least one more from this series later. (12/29/04)
Palm - This picture is #3 of my 4 submissions, so far, to www.enchantedceiling.com. Ever since I found out about this web site (from some one in one of these photo memes) I have been looking up whenever I go outside. The beauty of the sky is something that we all take for granted. Tomorrow go look up, no matter what the weather, if you look long enough, I bet you will find something magical about it. (11/28/03)
One Headlight - Riding back the Donna's sister's house with a pizza on my lap as she drives her Miata. (11/28/03)
Looking At Me - Sort of looks like a very tall robot looking down on me. (03/04/07)
Happy Birthday Alex 2008 - I'm not sure who Alex is, but I get an email request to take an Enchanted Ceiling picture on his birthday. Who am I to disappoint someone on their birthday. (02/17/08)
Feathery - Ticklish? (12/12/06)
Everyday Things - I was going to submit a macro image of my keyboard because that is pretty much an everyday thing, but when I looked at the photos I realized how dirty it was. So instead of grossing you out with minute unidentified food particles blown up to boulder-sized proportions, I took a picture of the dawn this morning on the way in from my parking space at work. (11/18/04)
Last Enchanted Ceiling of 2008 - This year I almost waited too late, but caught dusk from the front lawn. (12/31/08)
Last Enchanted Ceiling of 2007 - I waited too long to take this picture, so all that was left was shooting straight up off the back deck. The stars have a slight streaky quantity not because of any long exposure, but more from me stepping on one of the deck boards supporting the tripod. (12/31/07)
First Enchanted Ceiling of 2009 - It is ten minutes after nine in the morning according to the clock on the Aiken County Courthouse. (01/01/09)
First Enchanted Ceiling of 2008 - Same shot as Last of 2007, but in the daylight. (01/01/08)
Wisps - My first ever Enchanted Ceiling submission, taken where else, but in the parking lot at work. (10/21/03)
TGIF - Thank God It's Friday. It is the end of the workweek and to make it even better Donna and I only had to work 4 hours today. This morning's sunrise was a perfect match for our mood. Took this picture in the parking lot at work on the way in from the car. I almost used it for PhotoFriday's Patterns, but I used those birds on a wire. (11/19/04)
Streak - Too big to be a contrail, so it must have been formed by a natural line of water vapor in the morning sky. Turned bright orange by the rising sun. (12/10/05)
Straight - I don't know about narrow, but the late afternoon sun hidden behind a thundercloud off in the distance sure did create a straight line of light. Looks like another Enchanted Ceiling submission... (06/15/04)
Speed - These clouds look like what is left behind after something very large and very fast has sped by. (11/17/05)
Sky - The nearly full moon hangs in the sky above State Mutual Stadium, in Rome, GA home of the single-A Rome Braves a farm club of the, you guessed it, Atlanta Braves. (05/04/05)
Simplicity 2 - Like the last time this was the word/theme/challenge all I could think of was dress making patterns and we still didn't have any of those hanging around the house. So here is an image I took last Sunday morning on our walk around the neighborhood. The sky was quite interesting because about 150 miles to the southeast tropical storm Gaston was coming ashore near Charleston, SC. It is my Enchanted Ceiling submission #7. (08/29/04)
Simple - Sunsets are always a crowd pleaser, but I prefer sunrise and morning skies with their promise of new beginnings. Simply beautiful blue and white clouds. I will probably submit this one to my favorite online photo meme site, Enchanted Ceiling, to go along with the other half dozen already there. (10/21/03)
Silhouette 2 - The silhouette of the trusses that hold up VQ-1's hanger roof in the setting Guamian sun. They stick way up in the air so that there is a big ol' high ceilinged space so that EP-3As and EA-3Bs can be brought indoors to be worked on. (06/??/76)
Silhouette - Another walking in to work from the parking lot shot. Similar to my shot from the other day, but the sun is further up so the sky is bluer and the light is not lit. Enchanted Ceiling entry #15? (11/20/04)
Orange - Sunrise over ASCO. (12/29/04)
Morning 2 - Red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky in morning, sailor's take warning. Good thing this morning I was going to work and not sailing. (12/10/05)
Morning - The sun has risen above the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean, but was immediately hidden behind some low clouds. Facing in the exact opposite direction from Hodge Podge. (01/17/04)
Luscious - I can tell spring is on the way because it is no longer dark on the way to work anymore. Today was the first day that I actually didn't need the headlights on. It is also the time of the year when I am fond of snapping sky pictures on the way into work while walking across the parking lot from our usual north-forty spot. This is one of those shots, isn't the sky just Luscious? (04/06/04)
Landscape - This was taken about 15 years ago from somewhere in NJ. Now, whenever someone uses the NYC skyline as a backdrop they are careful to use just mid-town so the Empire State Building is featured prominently. I wish they would still show lower Manhattan, no WTC towers and all. Let those terrorists know we are still proud of that part of the city even if it has been forever changed. Not only that, keep featuring the Empire State Building and you can bet that will be tempting some low life's to knock it down somehow. Probably plotting how right now. (06/??/88)
Hodge Podge - Taken on the beach in Hilton Head Island, SC. Facing in the exact opposite direction from Morning. (01/17/04)
Glow - This mornings sky had just started to glow as we arrived at work. After the last few days, even those small peeks of blue, are welcome sights. (03/18/05)
Fender Sunrise - Here is Friday's TGIF picture reflected off the rear fender of the Miata. I'm thinking this will be lucky submission #13 to www.enchantedceiling.com. (11/19/04)
Dark Sky - Taken last Friday morning in the work parking lot on the way in. Ivan was moving north, a ways west of us, causing some dark and fast moving clouds to fill the sky. We got a little rain, but not much else from this storm, others to the west and then north of us were not so lucky. (09/17/04)
Cotton Balls - Taken the day after Thanksgiving in 2003 while visiting Donna's sister in Palm City, FL. A sister shot to Palm. (11/28/03)
Comic Book Sky - Will gets a good storm sky to photograph and all I get is a couple of clouds. We took a short cruise on the Augusta Canal this afternoon with some folks from the Peachtree Miata Club who had driven over for the weekend. The skies were nearly devoid of clouds, but what were there looked like they belonged in a comic book. (10/16/04)
Clouds - I love clouds. Ever changing and always interesting. They are even a better subject that the Miata. 🙂 I have some nice cloud photos in my archive, but decided to just take the camera to work today and get a picture. I knew I would get a good entry just walking into the building from the far reaches of the parking lot. Here it is. I've already formatted it for entry into www.enchantedceiling.com, why not enter yours? (06/25/04)
Cliche - I don't have a cat or baby to photograph. I do have the Miata, but even I'm tired of those cliche shots. So what is more of a cliche than a sunrise? Well, OK, maybe a sunset... (04/17/04)
Asian Buffet - Taken just outside the restaurant the Master's Miata Club was meeting at a couple of Thursdays ago. The frugal owners of the this dining establishment have taken to illuminating alternate words on their sign each night, tomorrow BUFFET will be lit and ASIAN will be dark. OK, you got me, I just made that up. All the neon has probably leaked out of the bottom word or a transformer is bad or whatever. (03/05/09)
Angry - The little gray cloud in front of the nice white ones looks angry. (11/16/05)
Above the Trees II - This one was taken in my favorite spot for these Enchanted Ceiling images, the ASCO parking lot in the morning on the way in from the car. (02/19/07)
Above the Trees - This one was taken in my favorite spot for these Enchanted Ceiling images, the ASCO parking lot in the morning on the way in from the car. (10/21/03)
Above the Cars - Taken at the same time as "Above the Trees II" with a little lower angle to bring in the fact that I was in a parking lot. (02/19/07)