moonvoice (ravenari)

We're over halfway through the heatwave,
and got some summer rain this evening
(by rain, I mean about three minutes of very light drizzle;
but I was standing outside in it!
By gods I was!)

Last night (at around 7.30pm) was one of the most amazing skies I've ever seen.
It was close to 37C out in Ellenbrook,
and there was a ton of instability / turbulence in the skies,
producing some amazing cloud formations at sunset, as a thunderstorm rolled in.
As a result, almost none of the colours or contrasts have been tweaked inaccurately.
This is pretty much... the real fucking deal.


Mammatus clouds. It was only a small section within the cloudscape, but I've seen more Kelvin Helmholtz clouds out here than I've seen mammatus, so I was really fucking excited.




( It took my breath away. Repeatedly. )

Good morning!
It's Boxing Day here.
A day where we'll be doing nothing except hopefully seeing The Hobbit
(that's the day it gets released in Australia).
But we have to brave 41c to do that, so we'll see.

I have decided to get back into proper Photos of the Day in the new year. I sort of lost my way a bit, because Instagram is so easy, but I like getting out the camera and actually taking 'proper' amateur photos. So I've started doing that again. I stopped because I also started feeling like my life was really boring and... uninteresting. That's been something I've struggled with all year. But I've decided that even if I spent every day inside, it is possible to find something that at the very least - I like or find interesting - once a day... so that's what I'm going to do. Or try to do.
My favourite subjects are of course my cats. Lol.


Maybe





Moet

Boy do I love clouds.
Shall be making a mango chicken curry today
and hopefully cleaning up some more of the study
in preparation for some pastel work.
I need to make sure all the illustration board is gone,
pastel dust gets into everything.





( Five more. )

I really love storms.
I mean, really. I love the clouds,
the way they shred and are filled with tumult.
I love feeling like I'm standing underwater, which is also a true thing.
And I love the smell of petrichor as rain falls on hot, Perth land.

I've increased the contrast in some of the cloud photos, since I love textures and colours and moodiness. But there's a photo of our street which has accurate contrast and you can see the clouds were still pretty serious!





( More under the cut. )

Distracting myself from ground compaction with photos,
didn't get much sleep last night. Only about four hours.
That's what I get for going to bed at 2.30am.
Ah well.
It's a Saturday today - so, more artwork!
Can I also mention how AWFUL Photobucket's changes are?
What photo caching site do you use? I'm thinking about changing sites.


This is Maybe with a Kong Wubba. She is only allowed to play with dog toys, since cat toys aren't strong enough for her pica.




( At least the cats are cute. )

last one for now,
didn't realise I had only 8 photos left in the folder.
so here we go.
have also been enjoying Elementary a great deal,
and I'm going to call it,
some elements are much stronger than BBC's Sherlock,
though they are very different shows.


Prevelly




( More of Margaret River, rugged beaches, sleepy cats. )

Well I lost track of these,
but I have a morning free this morning,
so in amongst everything else,
here are some more pictures
of our lives. :)


This is so ridiculous I don't even know how to title it.




( Featuring our intrepid troll, Maybe, a hearty stew, some art shots, and some spring wildflowers. )

Putting these up is a very nice break
after the travails of today.
(In which there was a hospital visit,
two major arterial roads were closed,
and a powerline was down, and our power went out...)


My girl.




( Photos of nature, art WIPs, self-portraits and Maybe. )