21.9.10

A storm rolled in from across the plains and emptied itself in the Mississippi..

Night lightning. Continuous shutter @ 1-second intervals over 2+ minutes.
There are dark calms and frying jolts like an argument between clouds.
The light is silent but the darkness growls.
(And in all things, patterns, how recharging cloud energy is bundled in the dark lapses,
how the seconds between light and thunder measure the distance between you and all that violence.)

11 comments:

Unknown said...

i want to see it larger! (i can't click it?)

mooresy said...

I was wondering if that was just a problem I was having, hmm -- I tried re-loading the image a few times but it hasn't solved the prob. Has anyone had this happen before?

Unknown said...

what kind of image is it? sometimes jpegs suck. but i haven't had the enlarging prob before.

mooresy said...

it's a jpg. if i can't fix it, i'll just load a close-up.

Temps said...

png we want png! love these kind of simple mappings

Kaitlyn said...

i second the png motion. i wanna see!

Joshua said...

Yeah, I have had this happen. It is too big essentially. The png will work but there is a certain "cap" I think.

mooresy said...

I switched to PNG and made the images smaller, but it didn't solve the problem. I have no idea what's up. Is there maybe some kind of plug-in issue with my mac?

Hope the extra image I added is close enough.

I'm planning on doing more of these, (lightning + other things) and tweaking the grid I set them in. I'm interested in how processes that operate in intervals of time make patterns when arranged on a grid. Ideally, there'd be waaaaaaaay more images so that a pattern would be clearer.

VA said...

bigger is better.

get on sendspace i want these as my desktop background.

Madison said...

these are amazing! brings out the 10 year old in me that wanted to be a meteorologist/tornado chaser.

mooresy said...

VA, I sent you the pic.