Meteorology
12:52 AM 6/16/2009This afternoon I looked at the sky, and saw... possibility:
I put my tripod on the fire escape, aimed at this cloud stack kissed by the afternoon sun, and pressed the button once every minute. In the breaks between photos, I even had time to make myself an espresso. I got 23 photos before the camera complained of low battery. (I wasn't going to push my luck on that one again...)
Now I finally got around to assembling the sequence. I'm sorry if it's a big file... Maybe I'll rebuild it smaller. I could reduce the dimensions further, or tweak the compression. But, perhaps you can enjoy it in this format.
As it turns out, my fire escape is very shaky. I had two legs on the metal and one leg on the stone door sill, and the tripod shook quite a bit. I fooled myself into believing that when I pressed down on the trigger, the tripod would be naturally stabilized. I see one frame where that is not true. Otherwise, I got acceptable results.