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Published: 2004-02-20 01:34:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2076; Favourites: 79; Downloads: 455
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Again from the archives. In the process of updating my site, I've been going back through all the images over the years and keep rediscovering things....This one happened back in Pennsylvania. I just happened to have Infrared film in the camera and my friend pulled the car over just in time...
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Dear friend, your wonderful work is included in my Surreal Landscapes Group feature -- [link] and [link]
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so surreal even though it was there...
road trips : )
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Haha, I think I know where that is. 
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that power plant looks like it's working up a storm...
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looks great, surreal, like the smoke is forming the cloud
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I know, but that's the case. I don't alter pics, by choice. Granted one can do anything now with PS, but this was shot nearly 14 years ago....It won the top prize the year after. It was just one of those rare moments....
Also, just as my own humble opinion, I think that PS is helping create a generation of lazy photographers...
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wow is that when the accident happened? is that 3-mile?
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i have heard that all the chocolate that comes from hershey pen. is radioactive. urban myth?
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Yes. It's ALL true....
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I could be really cagey and infer that.....but alas that's not the case. This was on the road to State College, Pennsylvania and I believe is just a regular power plant running normally, I just happened to be driving by when the little miracles of temperature, heat layers and no wind occurred...it didn't last long.... This is the second frame. The first and third don't work.... by the forth it was gone....
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Probably....I'm working on getting nearly everything into print now...
thanks so much for asking...maybe I'll move this one up in the line....
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that would make me very happy.
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Ugh, I am once again knocked speechless by your art, art from my birth year no less. Which makes this all the more special aside from what I see... and how wild and awesome it looks.
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that looks so unnatural. but yet it's real. almost unbelievable. it leaves me speechless.
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thats an incredible shot..
i dont even know what to say..
im speechless.
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Now... This is an impressive expressive shot! It's so filled with dark premonitions and yet it is radiating beauty. All right, let's stop the rants, because this is what I really meant: 
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Holy crap (<--- not usually much in my vocabulary). How wild and unreal and don't even want to believe it was like that is this? I can't stop going back to look at it again. And again.
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Thanks again..... I felt the same way. I was driving with a friend back to college when I saw this thing forming over the local plant. I was trying to shoot it from the car since there was no way to pull over on the mountain road. I thought it was gone. Then suddenly we crested the hill and there was a pullover. I ran across the road and shot three frames. The first and third don't work. It then almost immediately vanished. It was simply one of those magic moments.
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Inspiration.
I've been hoping to start a series this spring of industrial parks near my home. The gizmos looks so fantastic and forieng to me. It's easy for me to imagine that aliens left them behind. So far from my human experience. I always wonder WHAT they do...Makes me ask a question. Seems like a good place to start.
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the range of greys in this are fantastic, which contrasts the smoke/exhaust perfectly. what a great shot, you are an amazing photographer
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i am amazed at the shape of that thing... u know, just hanging in there... brooding on the stacks...
come to think of it, it feels more like the breath before the long plunge... the stacks are obviously pausing for some moments for what, i have yet to speculate.
something follows this picture... and the thought makes it more alluring
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there's something very surreal about this shot..its like a memory of a dream..
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wow - a cloud factory. Something you would see as a child that would make perfect sense.
Wonderful shot!
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In all of these years, that is the first time I ever heard it described that way.... thank you for that! Such an obvious thing and it never even occured to me....
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Are those trees the factory is surrounded by? Wow. This really was taken awhile ago....Kind of portrays how we took over. In the beginning, when everything was green and good. Then we came along and ripped it all down. I like the single white cloud, it works really well against the darness of the sky. And the shape of it...Looks like some beautiful creature flying overhead. Very nice piece. I likes it alot
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O gosh, isn't this just the greatest thing to look at as soon as I open my browser. This is fantastic. I really like the mood of this piece. That single cloud says so much. Its so pure. Great how it is pillowed by the background. 
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thank you so much for that.... and it was such a lucky shot...
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Most certainly luck. Nature is funny, ^^ its not like you can set up the very next day and expect that to happen again. The shot comes ones in a lifetime.
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Ooh nice.. fantastic dark atmosphere..
It kinda give me the feeling that something bad is about to happen. (silly me.. 
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Thank you.... actually this image won a pretty big award years ago, and that's how they described it as well....that's wild that you said almost the same thing...
thank you...as always....
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Wow, that IS wild. But prolly the best way to describe it, I guess.
And you're welcome, as always.
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