Dallas Road Ross Bay
Dallas Road runs behind Ross Bay and this location is across, or rather crossing, the street from the storm drain that I have shown many times of late.
This is from the same day as my Ross Bay Cloud post; same cloud in fact.
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Canon EOS 5Dmkii, Canon 50/1.4 lense, ISO100: both pictures f5.0/1,000th
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burnt embers 
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Love the B&W conversion, wonderful capture.
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Thanks David!
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These are both great photographs, my friend, but I have to say the 2nd one in mono there is really captivating. The cloud formation and the way the light comes off the edges really adds intense drama!
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Hi Toad – thanks so much. Seems to be pretty much hands down for b&w on this one. Glad you like them!
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From dark foreground to light saturated foreground, what a journey. Beautiful and evocative image.
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Hi Lynn, thank you!
Coincidentally, I just heard “garden music” as I was starting this comment – the sound of a squeaking wheelbarrow wheel as my daughter returned from the beach with a load of seaweed to add to the compost.
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Oh, that’s definitely garden music!
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It most certainly is. My new post is partly in response to your nomination of this blog for an award a few months ago. Sorry for the delay in getting to this, and for only glancing off the VBA on my way by. It is much appreciated, regardless of appearances.
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Nice coloring on the first photograph, but the b/w photograph shows the weather better, very dramatic.
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Hi Joseph – I agree about the weather. This is where I need better skills with software to bring that stuff out in colour versions.
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Between these two photos and the topic weather, b&w often works better than color, period. When looking at old b&w films the mood, through weather photography, is brought out much more effectively than later color films ever do. Where color is synonymous with reality, b&w because of the absence of color becomes a stylized portrayal of reality. It makes it more suitable for art photography or bringing across certain ideas more powerful, and it is a natural for portraying stormy weather. And of course more skills are needed. Always. After photoshopping for I don’t know how long I’m still only scratching the surface of serious photo editing much to my chagrin.
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Hi Joseph – interesting, I had not previously thought all of this through. I should think more about this stuff. As to the photoshopping side – aaack. My son showed me some stuff in CS5 the other day. After messing around with it for an hour or so I realised that there is a huge amount to learn – it seems akin to a course of study for a diploma – a year or two. I should probably do a course at Camosun College. Makes me wish for the days when I would get other people to process my negatives – they always did a better job than I could manage in my own darkroom, which was not a great setup, needing a better lense on the enlarger and more knowledge on my part. I really like taking pictures, but I guess I am a bit lazy on the processing side. Or maybe not lazy, impatient and lacking the skills and time to learn them, avoiding the issue.
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I cant figure out what the snaky patterns on the road are. Surely not frost? My guess is repairs to the tarmac. Whatever they are, they add greatly to the effect of the pic.
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Hi Val – they are crack repairs with a shiny tar, which does catch the light well.
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