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Early Rain over the Samford Valley

This is a discussion on Early Rain over the Samford Valley within the Show your photo (Color) - Landscape & Nature (flowers, mountains, storms etc.) forums, part of the Photography & Fine art photography category; At 6am this morning I was back up Mt Nebo with my wife, a friend, and our mountain bikes. I ...

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    At 6am this morning I was back up Mt Nebo with my wife, a friend, and our mountain bikes. I also took my DSLR with the wide angle lens on it, something I never do while mountain biking.

    The ride was a tough one. We were to (and did) descend into the valley behind me as we look at this shot down to the Lake Manchester area and then tackle the 10.2 km climb back out to Mt Nebo again. A very tough ride with long sections at 25 - 30% gradient.

    Not somewhere I venture if I think the weather will turn too foul. Hypothermia is nobody's friend. So we waited to see if the sun would bring a better outlook and while we waited I took photos.

    Here's one of the first I got ... (just realized I didn't level the horizon ) ...


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    It's still a nice view. We'll forgive your imperfection.

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    Quote Originally Posted by QuietOne View Post
    It's still a nice view. We'll forgive your imperfection.
    Yeh, contrary to popular belief ... I do make very small, very rare mistakes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Aussie View Post
    Yeh, contrary to popular belief ... I do make very small, very rare mistakes
    it's good to know you are human. :P

    now go fix that and repost!
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    Sorry I like it just the way it is. Beautiful. Doesn't seem to have Autumn look have I got timing wrong or is it late this year?

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    WOW...excuse me whilst I retrieve my jaw from the floor.
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    Beautiful shot MA!

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    Thank you very much everyone

    Quote Originally Posted by ericmark View Post
    Sorry I like it just the way it is. Beautiful. Doesn't seem to have Autumn look have I got timing wrong or is it late this year?
    We really don't get an autumn here ... we have very few deciduous trees.

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    Very nice photo, M.A. Good to see that you sometimes hold your camera a bit awry too!

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