Flooded landscape! Post your images!

[Asher Kelman]

The river Thames has been part of folklore and the pride and history of London and west of the metropolis. Defenses are insufficient and water levels are rising each year. The current flood has necessitated rescue of over 100 people. Ice cream vendors have set themselves up for onlookers and rubbernecks often bypassing police signs!

© 2007 Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Shown for editorial under fair use "The town of Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire is pictured surrounded by flood waters."

This is perhaps just one of those fluctuations in chance, an unimportant cycle of nature or else part of a serious aspect of global warming. The picture here shows no obvious reflections, just some shadows of clouds. The water is muddy, evidence of the power of the churning violence of the overpouring river banks.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

This is the greatest flood in the U.K. in 60 years. No pictures or thoughts?

What about other places inundated with water? How do people manage, help each other?

Asher

 

[JimCollum]

from a series from the Salton Sea

(taken with the 1dsmk2 .. 2 images stitched with 90 mm T/S lens)

 

[nicolas claris]

Not flooded but covered/uncovered by the sea every six hours.
Seen from helicopter:

 

[Asher Kelman]

These are two very interesting pictures.

The first has areas of churned up sand which looks like the suspended mud of the flooded English landscape. The second picture is very beautiful in the repeated curves of the waves cutting across a penninsula of higher sand.

I wish you also had more view on either side, Perhaps you do and this can be stitched?

Even then, as is, with no modifications it's so impressive and will print well. I'd conside a sand-colored matte to siuggest more extension of the sand bar.

Just needs your signature!

Asher

 

[nicolas claris]

Thanks Asher for the kind words…

No I don't have any other side pics to stitch, but I like the idea that one can imagine as one wishes the unseen part of this sand land -is it an island?- that may completely dissappear under the high tides…

And yes, it prints well, both! ;-)

 

[Marian Howell]

those shots are gorgeous nicolas!! if i had to pick - and i'd have to be Forced to do so! - i particularly am drawn to the color tonalities and curves in the 2nd one...printed these must be magnificent!!

and jim, yours is so intriguing, it being the salton sea and all...plus the tire! i keep going back to stare at the reflection...what was this once??

as for me, bench sitting was not a good idea on this day:

 

[Aaron Strasburg]

Reuters

I can't take credit, but this post at Reuters Photo Blog is definitely related and worth a look.

Can't take credit for this either, but not long after making the drive around Mt Rainier last year it got blasted with 18" of rain in 36hrs. The park service put together an amazing PDF of the damage.

Aaron

 

[Jim Rhoades]

Can't take credit for this either, but not long after making the drive around Mt Rainier last year it got blasted with 18" of rain in 36hrs. The park service put together an amazing PDF of the damage.

Wow... amazing the damage a long heavy rainstorm can cause. I liked the bit at the end:

"Mount Rainier is a restless mountain. The roads, bridges, trails, and campgrounds we build are secondary
to the elemental forces that created—and continue to transform—this landscape we love. Our great works of human enterprise will fade away with time. The mountain will endure."

 

[Asher Kelman]

Wow... amazing the damage a long heavy rainstorm can cause. I liked the bit at the end:

"Mount Rainier is a restless mountain. The roads, bridges, trails, and campgrounds we build are secondary
to the elemental forces that created—and continue to transform—this landscape we love. Our great works of human enterprise will fade away with time. The mountain will endure."

Jim,

Every so often we need to be reminded of nature's authority, power and influence on what we want to do. It's not opinion, fashion or our preferences, it's the truth of nature that matters! We can only bend it for a while, then it reasserts itself without restraint!

Asher