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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
We are fortunate to have a great view from my back yard!​

I was swimming and looked at the sky and ended up only swimming 3 lengths as the sky was changing fast!

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Asher Kelman: “Sky Beast”
Fuji GFX 10 images stitched on Autopano Giga

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James Lemon

Well-known member
Looks like a gateway to the heavens. At first I thought from your description that you had composed this picture while lying on your back floating in the pool.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thanks everone!

Every so often we learn to really appreciate our slice of life. I was simply amazed at the beauty as I was swimming on my back. Couldn’t get out of the water fast enough!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cirrus.
High altitude ice crystals.
Fine weather.

Do you swim naked, Ash? Now that’s freedom.
Yes, Tom!

But Wendy said that if I continue going commando, we have to increase our upstairs-lodger’s rent as she showers me with rose petals from her bedroom balcony!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Then I had a moment without my Fuji camera but there was a crescent moon above with silhouettes of trees on the rainbow-colored sky.

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Asher Kelman: “Crescent Moon 90210”
I also have pictures from a day or two later with my MF camera to process!

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Each night we try to eat outside to a new amazing sky. Someone was trying to convert me so I could be saved and go to heaven.

I reassured her that I appreciated her good intentions and love, but for me it was so especially unneeded!

I am in heaven already!

I can’t feel that I could deserve anything better in my life, now or in the future!

In this time of others suffering and losing loved ones, to be so privileged to know one’s family are well and safe AND see the beauty of nature, can’t be upped by anything other than cures for illness and peace on earth!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Asher Kelman: “Evening Prayers”
Part of the great sky are the context of the trees reaching up!

Hope you agree!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Just as I turned into the alley behind my house, a girl passed on her bicycle!

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Asher Kelman: “Masked at Sunset”


What’s interestingvto me is how the cables above, the alley and the silhouetted buildings all help to set the cyclist as a person of interest!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tonight the clouds gathered in a strange way both comforting and menacing.


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Asher Kelman: “Tear Gas Sunset“

I guess it depends which side of the oncoming tear gas one is at!

There was actually no tear gas, here in Los Angeles, just at the Nation’s Capital, but it was on our mind. Who would gave thought that the US White House would send militarized Police to fire rubber bullets and tear gas at peaceful unarmed young Americans exercising their rights to peaceful protest!

This was heavy on our minds all during the falling evening light!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Asher Kelman: Father’s Day

The fine screen texture is real. I was shooting theough the window. Now am done in by the Fathers’ day Beer.


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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Once again our sky caught on fire after a 105 F hot day, never heard of in Beverley Hills!


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Asher Kelman: Oven!

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Starting to take global warming seriously. Apparently a trans global weather arch of atmospheric energy linked our heat wave with the current Typhoon Haishan hitting Japan, Koreas........ and Snow in the Mid West of the USA!
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Today it was only 100 degrees F!

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Asher Kelman: “Respite”

Likely we have a trapped layer of smoke from the Northern California fires!

I think about how shocked the dinosaurs were when the sky caught on fire!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Obvious dark smoke from the massive million-acre Californian fires has disappeared, but the sunsets still fire up the sky from residual fine particles!

The same alley shown in post #13 above.

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Asher Kelman: “Fire Alley!”
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
It amazes me how the sky appears to catch fire. Tonight I made a piano stitched from my humble IPhone and used a Topaz Impression chalk smudge filter to abstract all the detail.

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Asher Kelman: “Sunset Chalk-smudged”

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