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Published: 2005-10-02 17:12:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 2904; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 243
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Despite the noise level and the desaturation of color in this shot, it's one of my favorites that I've taken.My friend and neighbor called me on my cell as he was on his way to pick up his brother from work to let me know that there were these really crazy cloud formations outside. So of course I snatched my camera and tripod and jumped out to the driveway.
360 degrees around me was this cast just on the horizon of strange clouds that kind of resembled a jaggy mountain wall. I couldn't duplicate that image on film because of course, photographs aren't cylindrical, so you couldn't get the same impression, but this shot shows one unique cloud that was hanging off beyond the corner edge of my front yard.
It looks alot like a huge ocean wave in my opinion.
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Actually it looks like Mt. Crumpit from Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch stole Christmas".
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That formations supposed to be really rare to see. You're lucky. X3
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Ooh, it's Jack Skellingtons hill! I would have loved to see a phenomenon like this.
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Amazing °___°
It reminds me of the "36 Views of Mount Fuji". To be exactly, Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa".
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Oh oh oh you know what I hear when I see that pic?
"NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sewenyaaaaaaaaa!!" *trying to sing Lion King intro*
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hahahahahahah!!!! i got it before you even mentioned the lion king. LOL
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The sign says Lost horizion that is just a perfect angle on that picture because it looks like a tidal wave
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oh my, the lost horizon drve thing made this photo more intresting! O__O
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wow amazing shot. "Lost Horizon" is an odd street name, but I think it fits very well with the picture.
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it is an odd street name indeed! I didn't edit that though. It was the street that connected with the one i used to live on. interesting coincidence, eh?
thanks for the comment!
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Beautiful picture!
Actually that kind of cloud isn't appearing often (meh, am I telling you the obvious?), especially not that HUUUUGE. They usually occur higher in the atmosphere. There's no name for such clouds, but there's a name for the instability provoking such shape, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability ([link] ).
In your case you only caught one wave.
Despite the stormy kind of sky, they are not usually associated with storms or rain or what-so-ever.
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neato! thanks for the link! i love those kind of tidbits! meteorology is fascinating don't you think?
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It's surely a very interesting field! I'm personally more into the physics behind it, but I always like to see its beauty.
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crazy looking, but for sure interesting..
Another that gets me is how awesome sounding your street names are.. LOL
"Lost Horizon"
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that's an amazing shot..not just for the cloud but for the environment in itself.. Cuz of that sign on the street saying "Lost horizon".It seems to me that this "wave cloud" is going to break itself in a very lost horizon.
that's a shot 4life
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thanks! I thought it was pretty priceless too. Hey, is that OM as your icon?
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Yeah, I'd also have to point out the street name.
Where it's at in regards to the cloud seem so movie-like, and in conjugation with the cloud shape, it's amazingggg
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thats just... trippy.. i've seen something KINDA similar.. but was more like the start of 20 very small tornados.. just these tiny lil cone-clouds pointing to the land from the sky
but this is just... MEEP! terrific shot
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thank you!
i've never seen a real tornado, but when i lived in houston I often saw trash bags in the sky. ...it's not really comparable is it?
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lol not particularaly.. but still
this photo is just so kool in an almost "wtf, hold me i'm scared" kinda way...
i'm also sittin here waiting for Jack Skelington, the Pumpkin King to trot up the back of this cloud with his lil skele-dog hehehe
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'lost horizon' drive, huh? this picture is totally surreal 
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mmh.. makes me remember the weird montain/thing that is in the cementery on nightmare before christmas xD
and look... looks like someone is on the top xD
mmh... clouds are a weird thing... i once saw one that looks like a dragon that was flying down the montain... i was on the highway to mazatlan xD
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nif t! i saw a cloud today that looked like a swan towing a streetpaver.
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This is one of THE MOOOOOST amazing, unreal photos I have EVER EVER seen!!!! I must tell everone I know!!! And the phenomenal clencher is the street sign with that name...Whoa! It couldn't be any cooler...You are gifted in ways that I cannot fathom! Your gifts, OBVIOUSLY are straight from God and you should keep on blessing others with your amazing talents!!! You rock my world!!! 
Have a great day! 
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It does look like an ocean wave! Very cool. And I know that you couldn't control the name of the street... but I love the fact that it was taken on "Lost Horizon"
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wow! thats weird! it looks like an ocean wave
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hehe I see a horse or dragon's head/neck with little wings at it's shoulders
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hahahaha! i saw that too!!
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Wow, you don't see that everyday ;D And I also think it looks like a big ocean wave ^^
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