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[solarbird]

Here's my picture of this strange mushroom-shaped cloud that spazzkat pointed out while we were biking this afternoon:



We were making jokes about how it looked like CapricaSeattle had just been n00ked by the Cylons, partly because of the cloud, and partly because the whole Woodinville area - something about the lighting just made it look like the sunny pre-war scenes on Caprica in BSG. But what's kind of funny is that several versions of this photo got shot all over the place. Here's one in seattle:

http://community.livejournal.com/seattle/3425846.html (click through, it's not my photo)

And here's the one caught by the Times, as spotted by tiff_seattle:



It's just kind of neat that everyone was going, "hey, wtf is that?" at the same time.

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

You could kind of see it from here, only it looked like a giant thunderhead waaay up there, with other clouds down lower in front of it.

[solarbird]

N00K N00K N00K N00K N00K zomg N00K!

From a trivial-to-anyone-but-me technical standpoint, this is the first photo I've ever edited without using my PC, which has my Photoshop license on it. I don't have Photoshop for the Mac, so usually my images have to go through the PC, but I found a way to make them smaller in software I already had on my powerbook yay.

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

I watched most of the growth sequence of that thing. It was big, over Kitsap County. And would be a good analogy of a moderate nuke cloud.

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad you got a picture of it! I went out with Panda to run some errands and we spotted it while driving - I was so disappointed that I'd left my camera at his house! It was a truly bizarre formation.

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

I really like your take of the cloud 'event'. It looks so creepy. THanks for sharing... your such a great photographer!! :D