Pic of the week game

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Thanks, everyone.
For the next theme - "atmospheric phenomena". I want to see pics of rainbows, lightning, aurora borealis, tornados, hurricanes, water spouts, weird cloud formations, ufo's. That sort of thing. With at least part of your bike in the picture, of course.

[Burque73]

What a fantastic shot, Rich! It'll be hard to compete with that one this week.

[Burque73]

Looking at the pic I initially chose for this week, I realized it didn't even fit the theme.

I've used this one before, but it really fits in well here.

[kerrfunk]

apropos for "wildlife", although it doesn't include a good shot of the bike...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/07/03/india-tiger-chases-motorcycle-orig-vstan-bdk.cnn

[cowboyup3371]

My last ride before breaking my leg

South look of storm by Scott Baker, on Flickr

[marvinsc]

Jan. 2015 Sunset by Scott Marvin, on Flickr

The view coming off the ferry across Kentucky Lake on a rare Beautiful January ride in 2015. Yes that is the Left upper corner of a wind shield in the pic.

[kerrfunk]

Saw a fat rainbow this evening, or about twenty degrees of a fat rainbow.
Neglected to take a picture.

[trevor]

Bonneville Salt Flats

[Agemax]

Best i can offer on this topic, mid afternoon sun shining off the sea.

[Steve]

Best i can offer on this topic, mid afternoon sun shining off the sea.

As I recall, the theme for the week is "atmospheric phenomena", and in your little corner of this big, blue marble, a clear sky is rather phenomenal.

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[kerrfunk]

Sunday night, about ten minutes to 9pm, I look out the window and notice some blue sky over there and some green clouds over there and some orange in another direction. I tell my wife (who knows about the photo contest) "I think I'm going to hop on the bike. Sky is looking interesting."
So I ride to the park two miles from my house, the highest most open place I can think of at the moment. It's starting to rain, and the color is fading fast, but the rain is not a soaker. Yet. I park the bike and take a few steps away from it, hold my camera in portrait orientation, and take a panoramic while slowly turning myself around 360degrees. I'm able to get three full panoramas before it starts raining pretty hard, but before I exited this parking lot I was soaked to the skin.
I'm pretty pleased with the three pictures. The third one features the bike a little better, but this first one shows the skies the best.

The shaft of light at the far right? While I was turning the camera, there was a flash (not a bolt) of lightning, and I guess that's how it stitched the panorama together at that part.

I rode home in a downpour, laughing because of the hard rain that I could scarcely see in. I confess, I was not ATGATT -- the only gear I was wearing was a half helmet. Nothing covering eyes or face, and riding naked-faced in the rain was painful and blinding and stupid, I know.
Oh -- when I got home, I emptied my rain gauge. It had collected two inches of rain. Sunday evening. I know because I emptied it before supper.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Nice shot Rev! But don’t get yourself hurt chasing funky skies for my theme.

[Redman]

Ha!
Kerry, would you have done that, say, two years ago??

when you first mentioned "rain gauge", i thought you were going to tell us how much you poured out of your boots.

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[kerrfunk]

I know that I have literally ridden hundreds of miles in the rain, but yeah, I should have pulled over somewhere. But there was no shelter and yada yada yada.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Looking at the pic I initially chose for this week, I realized it didn't even fit the theme.

I've used this one before, but it really fits in well here.

YES! That’s what I was hoping for. Thought I’d seen it before. Awesome!