Dances With Tripods

Cloud roof?

The sky this evening.

I stayed in Long Beach, CA for three months during the summer of 2002. I was on my way from Manitou Springs, CO to Phoenix, AZ and took a "little detour".

Hand held, no tripod, just tested my reflexes. I almost deleted the images on the digital card, I didn't think I got anything.

We were supposed to get a lot of rain today, but it didn't come.

Not the prettiest foreground. This is the view from the hospital parking deck. I was enjoying the clouds.

Taken from the back yard, over rooftops. I had dinner cooking and couldn't run off for a better location.

The World's Tallest Fountain: It can shoot 560' high, 10' higher than the Washington Monument. It shoots every hour on the hour for 15 minutes.
(Added 11/6/04):
Time to fess up...this is another Photoshop composite. The fountain is about 60 miles from where I took the photo of the sky. The sky is as I shot it but the fountain is manipulated. The original photo was quite boring, taken mid-afternoon and showed just a stream of white water. A client needed a dramatic photo for his website, a real estate agent in that area, and this was faster than digging thru my files. :)