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fossileyesed
03-10-2010, 08:59 AM
some pics i took in the rain last week out on the ocean
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxttbQ9
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TssYIpS
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV2RW40
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV2RfFA
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxoNbzJ
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxoNFvr
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxqklFi
some of them arent floating,just rising,lol
peace....kent
Dougall
03-10-2010, 10:07 AM
Those are some really cool pix! I mean you could frame a couple of those!
Anyhow I think what we are looking at are disparate densities in the rain drops vs the body of water. A different count parts per million of dissolved solids in each. I was a Pool Plumber and Service Man for many years and I saw some pretty strange things. Your Pix remind me of some living organisms I witnessed in a Pool just after a rain. These things were clear and you had to kneel on the pool deck to see them. They were all along one side of the pool wall and submerged about a foot or so deep. They were about the size and shape of raindrops and moved sort of like slugs or worms, again they were clear and I had no idea what I was looking at. When I touched one with the eraser end of a pencil it moved away. These things were alive and remain a mystery to me.
I remember there was a Dairy Farmer out to visit his daughter's home and was standing by the pool when I got there. After we investigated these little critters he looked a little shaken and hurried back inside the house.
It's funny, I haven't thought of that day in a long time. Thanks for the photos they are first rate!
mkspllmn
03-10-2010, 02:29 PM
All of those pics look like normal rain to me.
mudra
03-10-2010, 02:36 PM
Beautifull photos Kent and a gorgeous area too :)
Thanks for sharing.
Love Always
mudra
fossileyesed
03-10-2010, 03:47 PM
All of those pics look like normal rain to me.
yes my freind,normal rain.when it rains on the ocean,sometimes it takes a second or two for the rain to absorb .usually if the rain drops are bigger.
on a lake they bubble for a sec.i think it has to do with salt content.
i was out one time in a downpour,on a calm day.it was a most amazing sight to look at the water and it was covered in floating rain drops.i didnt have a camera that day.it was pretty cool though.
peace...kent:original:
fossileyesed
03-10-2010, 03:58 PM
Beautifull photos Kent and a gorgeous area too :)
Thanks for sharing.
Love Always
mudra
thank you mudra.
the area i live in is tecnically a rain forest,but you only notice it when its raining.
i live on the edge of it,just in the interior of northern british columbia.
just so you know you can or anyone else can help themselves to my pics.i dont mind.there is no copyright in nature.i got lots.took about 500 that day.
i cant figure out how to post the pics yet(impatient,lol).
frame away dougall,lol
peace...kent
Dougall
03-11-2010, 04:59 AM
I think the first one is the money shot. I could see it hanging over a couch or in an art gallery. It's really good.
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