A Really Good Wave Cloud Pic

[Kemp]

While in NZ last year I was struck by how a tagline for NZ is "The Land
of the Long White Cloud", yet I could not find in any tourist spot or
museum a really good, poster size lenticular image. One lady at the
Auckland museum said, "It's a myth!", whereupon I corrected her with
the explanation of what it is and how it supposedly helped the Maori
people to find land (and I'm from California). The best I could do was
to walk into the Met building in Wellington and buy one of their 2005
calendars.

Now this is not meant to be disrepectful to our Kiwi friends, I really
enjoyed my time there. But it got me thinking of where I could find a
really spectacular lenitcular image suitable for framing. Recently I
was in Bishop, CA and in the compact lobby of the airport, I found the
following image:

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/hgcgroup/vwp?.dir=/Sierra&.src=gr&.dnm=SierraWaveWideAngle-5-Copyright.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/hgcgroup/lst%3f%26.dir=/Sierra%26.src=gr%26.view=t

and commented to the county worker, "I need to find the guy who took
this photo!". Whereupon the guy said, "I took that photo!". I bought
it from him on the spot for US$60 and am having it framed. The image
does not have any text on it, unlike this thumbnail.

So my point is, does anyone else know of a spectacular wave cloud image
that is available for purchase in a large frame format. The most, MOST
impressive picture I know of is hanging in the lobby of the Omarama, NZ
gliderport lobby. It is a 1m x 1m or so image of the Taireipet wave
cloud in black & white.

Cheers,

Kemp

[JC]

Your link does not work.

On 19 Aug 2005 18:06:39 -0700, "Kemp" > wrote:

>While in NZ last year I was struck by how a tagline for NZ is "The Land
>of the Long White Cloud", yet I could not find in any tourist spot or
>museum a really good, poster size lenticular image. One lady at the
>Auckland museum said, "It's a myth!", whereupon I corrected her with
>the explanation of what it is and how it supposedly helped the Maori
>people to find land (and I'm from California). The best I could do was
>to walk into the Met building in Wellington and buy one of their 2005
>calendars.
>
>Now this is not meant to be disrepectful to our Kiwi friends, I really
>enjoyed my time there. But it got me thinking of where I could find a
>really spectacular lenitcular image suitable for framing. Recently I
>was in Bishop, CA and in the compact lobby of the airport, I found the
>following image:
>
>http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/hgcgroup/vwp?.dir=/Sierra&.src=gr&.dnm=SierraWaveWideAngle-5-Copyright.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/hgcgroup/lst%3f%26.dir=/Sierra%26.src=gr%26.view=t
>
>and commented to the county worker, "I need to find the guy who took
>this photo!". Whereupon the guy said, "I took that photo!". I bought
>it from him on the spot for US$60 and am having it framed. The image
>does not have any text on it, unlike this thumbnail.
>
>So my point is, does anyone else know of a spectacular wave cloud image
>that is available for purchase in a large frame format. The most, MOST
>impressive picture I know of is hanging in the lobby of the Omarama, NZ
>gliderport lobby. It is a 1m x 1m or so image of the Taireipet wave
>cloud in black & white.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kemp

[Kemp]

Ok........so let's try this TINYURL stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/75z2a

Kemp


JC wrote:
> Your link does not work.
>

[Marc Ramsey]

Kemp wrote:
> Ok........so let's try this TINYURL stuff:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/75z2a

Neither works unless you are a member of the appropriate Yahoo group...

[309]

Kemp,

When I was in Bishop a few years ago, there was a gallery of the
photography of Galen Rowell and his wife Barbara. Both were killed in
an aircraft accident.

One "long cloud" image can be found at
http://mlstock.com/fs.shtml?bin/Search2?Keywords=wave

There were several other photos in the gallery. See:
http://www.mountainlight.com/

I am sure there are many other photos of wave clouds that can be found.

I was in Lone Pine last weekend and found other strking images of the
wave clouds spawned by the Sierra Wave.

While I've made some 28 wave flights out of Cal City and soared my 1-26
to 28,300 feet, I still have not been up on a day where there were
"classic" lennie's stacked up.

Enjoy your search for photos; they ARE out there!

Then again, maybe you'll be taking a few in the next couple of months!

-Pete

[309]

I found these after posting my message:

http://dwightbuck.com/ncalgallery/galleries/images/Air-Pages/Image17.html

http://dwightbuck.com/ncalgallery/galleries/images/Air-Pages/Image5.html

[[email protected]]

http://silentflight.com/wave_cloud.jpg

Heres one for you...

Al

[Mary Daniel or David Grah]

None of those are the images Kemp is talking about. The one he is talking
about is close to a 180 degree panorama.

David Grah
Bishop, California

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> http://silentflight.com/wave_cloud.jpg
>
> Heres one for you...
>
> Al
>

[Nyal Williams]

Finding wave cloud pictures. I just learned today
about finding pictures on the web. After you make
a google search on a subject and get some hits, instead
of looking at each in turn just go to the choices directly
above the google window (where you typed in your subject)
and click on 'images.' This will pull out pictures
from all the sources google found and put them on a
page for you.

Maybe most everyone else knows this.


At 02:00 21 August 2005, Mary Daniel Or David Grah
wrote:
>None of those are the images Kemp is talking about.
> The one he is talking
>about is close to a 180 degree panorama.
>
>David Grah
>Bishop, California
>
> wrote in message
oups.com...
>> http://silentflight.com/wave_cloud.jpg
>>
>> Heres one for you...
>>
>> Al
>>
>
>
>

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:07:50 -0700, wrote:

> http://silentflight.com/wave_cloud.jpg
>
> Heres one for you...
>
> Al
Or this:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050821.html

--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

[Kemp]

Ok, a second try. I posted the panorama on gliderforum.com at:

http://www.gliderforum.com/photos/photo-thumbnails.asp?albumid=136

which should be viewable by anyone.

Kemp

[309]

So Kemp,

Where is your glider in that picture? ;-)

http://www.gliderforum.com/photos/photo-thumbnails.asp?albumid=136

Kemp wrote:
> Ok, a second try. I posted the panorama on gliderforum.com at:
>
> http://www.gliderforum.com/photos/photo-thumbnails.asp?albumid=136
>
> which should be viewable by anyone.
>
> Kemp