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Mighty Winds

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The top part of the image is the visual testimony to the incredibly powerful forces which shape the skies, including the volatile ones around this impressive volcano. The clouds of different contours and consistencies are sometimes shifted in seemingly conflicting directions, at different heights, in accordance to the latest moods of the ruling winds to reveal clearly these invisible currents in a kind of airborne stratum.

What really caught my attention here was the tidy regimented file of fluffy clouds just below the snowline, moving orderly from left to right and straight into the rage of the mountain’s executive arm, its resident wind. Its force showed no mercy as the victims were turned and twisted and consequently ripped into the smallest of pieces, some of them still visible floating hopelessly around for a while, before departing into oblivion at such a speed it made the whole incident hard to believe.

The result of the carnage on the land below could be observed as a mishmash of fast moving patterns, shades and filtered lights, like the event was a product of play with some heavenly kaleidoscope.

Hard to believe indeed. The real question is how to convey an impression of this kind, one that affects all of your senses to some extent and condense it into one-dimensional media as a photograph is. In fact, it’s impossible. This image is the next best thing.

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  1. kate053(absente) 49 months ago | reply

    sublime photo!
    This Wonderful Capture seen in “Nature's Beautiful Photography - INVITE ONLY” group!

    Nature's Beautiful Photography - INVITE ONLY
    THANKYOU

  2. Jus'fi 49 months ago | reply

    This Wonderful Capture seen in “Nature's Beautiful Photography - INVITE ONLY” group!

    Nature's Beautiful Photography - INVITE ONLY
    THANKYOU

  3. Hibiscus Mia 47 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Ecofriendly. The power of nature., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  4. Ian@NZFlickr 47 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called *Little stories-pics with "soul"*:Invited photos only !, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    Great picture Peter!

  5. szilagyipp 44 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mountain Society, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    Please feel free to enjoy our group as a member and please tag your photo with "Mountain Society".

  6. Kratos May 43 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called MAW (Mountains Around the World), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  7. Tiensche 42 months ago | reply

    Beautiful capture.

  8. sempre_vivace 42 months ago | reply

    !! my mountain lol... gorgeous! (i'm a very patriotic taranakian...)

  9. Luigi Mirto/ArchiMlFotoWord 40 months ago | reply

    Un bel panorama dai colori non accesi ma pacati.
    I toni molto buoni restituiscono all’insieme della composizione dei colori tendenti al grigio molto naturale grazie ad un sapiente bilanciamento del bianco.

    Eccellenti i neri che risultano corposi e profondi mentre i bianchi puliti e brillanti
    Molto buona ed appropriata la nitidezza no troppo marcata ma nemmeno slavata.
    Complimenti.

    Seen in :

    *Little stories-pics with "soul"*
    www.flickr.com/groups/littlestories_picswithsoul

  10. nancy rae 39 months ago | reply

    what a beautiful land you live on

  11. Hugoboy67 28 months ago | reply

    Magnifique!

  12. hottriggeredkiwi_ 10 months ago | reply

    Superb landscape with some magic clouds that you've captured perfectly. Truly inspirational.

  13. Radianman 크래그 10 months ago | reply

    Your work is incredible!

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