Thursday, August 28, 2008

Sky Watch Friday...


It is time for the weekly installment of Sky Watch Friday. Since I have started to participate in Sky Watch I have noticed that I look for things with good sky in the back ground. Our family does not let any grass grow under our feet so we get to see allot of things and travel to many places. Every where I go these days I am looking for things projecting into the sky to shoot for these days.

With that being said a few weeks ago we traveled to Elk County, Pennsylvania to watch and photograph wildlife. For those of you that come here often you already knew that, but I needed to point it out to the once a week viewers. On the way there this Notre Dame family stopped at State College to check out the PSU campus. It was a great sky day with what my son and I jokingly call fluflious, cumleous clouds (since we make these words up I attempted to spell them as we say them). Seeing these behind Beaver Stadium, Sky Watch Friday immediately came to mind. So we found a place to park and off I go with the camera. That happens allot with us. Do you think Joe Pa had anything to do with the blue sky and white clouds at blue and white Penn State?

Of course being at Bristol Motor Speedway last week was no different, I found myself photographing many things in the sky or projecting into the sky for future post. I would like the people not familiar with Sky Watch to be able to access the sites, but being a computer dummy when I tried to put the little Sky Watch box on my site to the left as a link I could never get it to work. So I will do it the one way I know how, http://skyley.blogspot.com/ . That worked, but remember for those in my time zone it won't be active until 2:30 p.m. Please check out the other sites and I hope you enjoy them.

58 comments:

Flying Solo said...

I like your kky and the way you framed it!
Happy sky watch :)

Anonymous said...

Great picture and I knew this one before I even read where it was... LOL

Pretty Life Online said...

Great shot for Skywatch! Nice job! Mine's up too hope youcan drop by... asking for your vote too... thanks a lot! Happy weekend!

bobbie said...

I just call them marshmallow clouds, and I think they are beautiful.

Julie said...

Hah! I have a sort of similar photo up this week too. The clouds are really spectacular between your buildings, Brad.

Berit T said...

Great SWF photo!

Anonymous said...

The clouds looks very spectacular behind those building!Drop by if you got a chance, HERE.

Anonymous said...

Nice work. I like this scene and the clouds are very nice.

See my SkyWatch post here > Canon Pixels

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Brad: Wonderful Sky capture with the stadium in view.

imac said...

Great capture.

Anonymous said...

Good framing. Happy SF.

Torsdag 1952 said...

Hallo Bradley,
yes SWF makes us thinking and feeling in a special way. An idea starts people joining together all over the world.
Thank you for the shot and your words.
Have a nice weekend
Hartmut

Michele said...

Great shot... I'm always doing that too. Looking up up up for something good for the Sky Watch posts for future posts... as often I'm looking down at flowers or the water, or at fish or wildlife, insects, etc...

Thanks for coming by and the nice comment on my blog. I really do appreciate it.
Mountain Retreat

Ivar Østtun said...

Ha ha, when you see man/woman with a camera around his/her neck and is looking upwords, you'll know there will be a SWF post next thursday :-)
I like this :-)
Beautiful picture

Louise said...

Love it. You're right--always looking for things that look good in front of the sky. This one is great with the cloud peeking from behind.

Photo Cache said...

Impressive clouds you got there.

I do the same. Each time I go outside I look up to see if the sky is nice enough for SWF post.

mick said...

Great SWF post!

Angie said...

Great photos Bradley and yes, SW certainly does make you look at the sky in a different way

Cátia said...

fantastic picture!great sky

Som mine dager er said...

Yupp - great SWF shot again - you're good at this!

Unknown said...

Perfect shot for swf!

me ann my camera said...

These are wonderful clouds, a great backdrop and frame for the stadium lights!

Reader Wil said...

Thanks for the visit! It's funny but I do, like you do, watch the sky more intently than I did before I joined sky watch.Your photo is good.

Anonymous said...

great shot! the sky is so lovely and wonderful..

Pernille said...

Very nice shot! Perfect for SWF:)

Kelly said...

Great shot of the white fluffy clouds! You are right, I look at the sky and all of life a little differently now, because of SkyWatch! Great photo!!!!

Anonymous said...

Wonderful photo of the piled up clouds - I like you and your son's joke about the names. I think "fluflious" would describe them very well. :D

Quiet Paths said...

This is a different take! Nice framing and interesting clouds.

Anonymous said...

Great clouds with the surround of the building. Happy SWF!

Carver said...

I love the blue sky and fluffery clouds, as well as the composition in this shot. Beautiful. I make up words without even knowing I'm doing it half the time, ha.

D Herrod said...

What a great post for the start of football season.

Pearl Maple said...

Sky Watch does have that effect on folks, you spend more time thinking about what we see and how it looks. Great photo and thanks for your kind comments on my post earlier.

Mary said...

I always call them "fluffer nutters." (Don't tell anyone!) Great skywatch post!

Arija said...

Lights, camera, action! Nice shot.
Love your deer below too.

Anonymous said...

Great photo - I like the strong vertical lines.

Carletta said...

Hi Brad,
This is a lovely well-framed sky!
I do like seeing something in front of the sky sometimes. :)

SandyCarlson said...

That's a lot of fun! I like your thoughts, too. Thanks.

HFD60 said...

Good SWF Brad....glad to see you picked a good school:0)

PJ said...

You're a busy guy. This is a big sky and I love it. Beautiful blue for a background.

Baruch said...

Great photo!

Maria Verivaki said...

very artistic capture - glad you liked mine of the fire-fighting on the hill

Jane Hards Photography said...

It is a very nicley famed shot, the cold metal against such a cool blue sky.

Jules said...

Great framing against the sky - it looks so impressive.

Neal said...

Very nicely done!!

Anonymous said...

it looks like steam coming out of the building - brilliant shot

Brad Myers said...

Thanks all for the wonderful comments. There was really allot of great sky watch photographs this week.

I thought about what Hartmut from Germany said in his comments, it is very neat how one site with a weekly post can bring people from all parts of the world together. You start to get to the piont that think you know some of the people.

Thanks to the sponsors for giving us a vacation day each week that allows us to travel all over the world.

Fish Whisperer said...

I like the way the stadium gives the sky it's enormity.
Cheers

Gretchen said...

You were in my area then in Elk County. :)

Of course, Jo Pa makes the sky blue and white. Goddess is a Penn State fan after all!! :)

Lilli & Nevada said...

fabulous cloud formations

Amila Salgado said...

Great composition.
Have a good weekend!

Maria said...

Hi Brad, thank you for visiting my site!
You have posted a beautiful sky watch picture and I think it is from a part of town which you like a lot :)
Have a nice weekend!

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's a fluffy one! Good SkyWatch contribution. Thanks for your visit.

Anonymous said...

It looks like the clouds are desending on the field. Wouldn't that be a bad thing? :-)

DeniseinVA said...

Love those "fluflious" skies and you take great SkyWatch pictures. I enjoy visiting your blog and all the other photos you post there. Have a great weekend.

2sweetnsaxy said...

Must have been a great day at the races with that beautiful sky above. Nice job! :-)

nonizamboni said...

Great photos, and great blog. I especially like you & your family's made up cloud words! Great choice for SWF too. . .happy Labor Day.

Larry D said...

Great photo, Happy SWF!

Max-e said...

Nice choice Bradley. I have been enjoying your other posts as well