Cheetah cub, Masai Mara, Kenya

for #monochromemonday curated by +Siddharth Pandit
#PlusPhotoExtract #Wildlife_Photo #Wildlife #Africa #Canon

Kinderdijk

"Tradewinds"....An image made in Puerto Rico a few weeks ago...just in case the winter season is getting to you...

Thank you for looking,

Robert

#NatureMonday by +Rolf Hicker

I captured this at the Boston-Portsmouth Air Show in 2010. Amazing demonstration! #MilitaryMonday curated by +Joe Kaiser #AviationMonday curated by +Mike Criss #manlymondays curated by +Mark Rodriguez

➤ Good Morning Jakarta

Until the Smoke Clears...

Back on track

Wow after a week of cat sitting for friends (I'm not kidding you) I'm finally able to process some shots again.
Living in a – for me – unexplored part of the city for a week sure was interesting. I thought I would go out every night and roam the range roads around my friends' house. Well, I found out that the area there, is not quite interesting enough for what I do. You have to drive a long way to get away from civilisation.
So on Sunday I hatched a plan. I was going to go out and go south. As far as a could go. Hoping to bring something home. I did not find much. It felt like I wasted just a lot of gas.

But then I turned around and saw the gorgeous light on the mountains to my West. I raced back to a viewpoint I wanted to shoot at for the longest time. Well it's not actually a VIEWPOINT. It's just a point on a highway where you have a gorgeous view of the Rockies. I can only say, it was amazing. I shot about 15 frames on the good old RB67 using 50 asa Pan f plus with a red filter and polarizer but THIS is a digital version of what I saw. Looking forward to develop this film and see how I did and how the red filter changed the scene....

In the middle you see Mount Bryant Mount Glasgow located in the Fisher Range on the edge of Kananaskis in Alberta, Canada. Taken West of Calgary on highway 22X.

My contribution for +Michael Russell #mountainmonday and +Siddharth Pandit's #monochromemonday

I was going to use a 2:1 format for this image. A square crop cut out the cloud on the right which i wanted to keep in. Then i saw the superb jetty image in 5:4 format by +rohan reilly which inspired me to try it here. It solves my problem of keeping the clouds on the right, but there's something about the format i'm liking and can't fully articulate. To me the image has room to breath if that makes sense.

Contribution for
#MinimalMonday curated by +Olivier Du Tré
#MonochromeMonday curated by +Siddharth Pandit
#BWFineArtLE curated by +Joel Tjintjelaar
#FineArtPls curated by +Marina ChenEdit

If you ordered a copy of my Stormchasing Arizona (http://www.mikeolbinski.com/book) book, or happened to see my Best of 2011 (http://www.mikeolbinski.com/2011/12/a-few-frames-from-2011/), you may have seen this image already.

But it was one of my top five probably from last year's monsoon season, so I felt like it was owed it's own blog/G+ post.

This is from north of Tucson overlooking a huge cotton field. Awesome storm on the horizon dropping rain. Nothing I like more than a wide vista or landscape with a distant rain storm.

There was also a timelapse to go with this: http://www.mikeolbinski.com/2011/09/thunderstorms-over-the-catalina-mountains/

Cannot wait for monsoon season to return, it's been so dry and sunny here!

I haven't participated in #ActionMonday for a while. As always, thanks to +Adrian Buturca for curating.

London