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Thursday, 18 September 2008

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It's that time of the week for our contribution to Sky Watch Friday. So here's mine. I took it from a moving train when I was coming back from London. It was somewhere in the Leicestershire countryside and I took several, because trees and powerlines kept getting in the way.

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27 comments:

  1. so colorful your sky pic :D

    Please drop at my SWF post also: in HERE. Thanks

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  2. This is such a beautiful sky. Glad you had your camera to catch it! Happy Sky Watch!

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  3. Anonymous8:24 pm

    It is hard to take photo on movement but someone becomes like that: great shot.

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  4. Anonymous8:27 pm

    Great capture!

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  5. Anonymous8:31 pm

    WOW! Love the fiery sky there!~Mine is here. See you there!~ Happy SWF!~

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  6. What a shot to get from a moving train, and such a lovely sunset too.

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  7. Anonymous8:49 pm

    Could well have been shot somewhere in Africa's plains...
    Gorgeous!
    Cheers, Klaus

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  8. This is a fabulous drive by shooting image. Love the silhouette of the trees against that dramatic colors.

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  9. That's so pretty... the silhouette against that rusty golden sky is incredible!!!

    Have a really good weekend!
    ~Michele J~
    Mountain Retreat

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  10. Such stunning colours. Even more impressive due to the moving train factor!

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  11. Anonymous12:08 am

    Oh - that's beautiful. I can smell a camp fire with Portobello mushrooms on a grill. Stunning.

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  12. Stunning sky. Amazed you managed to keep it so clear from a moving vehicle - mine usually blur.

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  13. This is beautiful!

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  14. OMG! I can jsut see Scarlet O'Hara leaning against that tree. Awesome, and form a moving train, hats off to you. That's a bloody fantastic image.

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  15. The colors are great, you could never tell it was taken from a train.

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  16. Beautiful. I know what you mean about undesireable power lines, etc. How wonderful that you got this while the train was moving.

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  17. the colors are amazing and the tree is posing

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  18. Beautiful.... and so to is the painting you have on Paintbox... excellent work all round.

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  19. Such deep rich colours - like a winter's fire.

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  20. Very pretty. Great colors :-)

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  21. Beautiful and especially if you took it from the speeding train you showed on The World in B&W!

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  22. Wow! Beautiful! Can't believe you were moving in a train. You got the tree PERFECTLY The colors are fabulous.

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  23. Superb capture Gail's man. that is a glorious sky

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  24. Anonymous7:30 pm

    That's a spectacular sky. Would have made the train journey much more enjoyable.

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  25. Anonymous4:47 pm

    All the superlatives have been used up... I think it's great.

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  26. Beautiful capture!!

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