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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/3/2007
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yea...I understand...if you have once that warm wind you don't mind...but if that holds for a week...:-D Anyway even for me that weather was very nice...and the couse is on a serie of photos like that one...I'll upload also others...
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 6/3/2007
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I think these southern winds are quite fascinating for me as a Dane, but for you it might not be that nice! I also didnīt experience the sand like this - I just felt the sudden heat and the wind that took away the furniture and got some sand in my eyes - nothing like this Marsscenery though:-)
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/3/2007
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Thanks a lot my friend...hehehe not Mars or Venus plants...even it could be like that...at least the color! :-D Samely like Tozz but surely without the tempratures that has...it wasn't a hot day for my place...
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Manuel Bedoyan
{K:9098} 6/3/2007
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It's as if it's a shot from Mars:) Great capture, must have been difficult in that weather. This phenomena is called TOZZ in Kuwait. I know how it is, i've been there;)
M
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/3/2007
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Thanks Annemette. Yes...south wind isn't the...nicest thing of my place... thanks god that I present here isn't many times...that so heavy sand was only once in my 31 year life...:-D
lol....I have my camera for these moments...lol...if it cannot hold I get it away...:-DDDDD
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 6/2/2007
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Incredible photo, John! I really thought you toned this. Iīve been to your beautiful island twice and one time I encountered these special winds coming from the Sahara where it got extremely hot and everything flew around and I got sand in my eyes.
Thanks for sharing and I hope you didnīt damage your camera:-0
Annemette
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/2/2007
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Thanks a lot Jose for the kind comment!
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 6/2/2007
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a delight to look your marvelous protafolio. 7++++++++++++++
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/1/2007
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Thanks Jose!
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 6/1/2007
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stunning tones. marvelous capture. a delight. 7++++++++++
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/1/2007
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Thanks Iman...
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Iman Fouad
{K:12295} 6/1/2007
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 ))))
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 6/1/2007
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Thanks a lot dear friend...yea, it could be...but if it was I couldn't taste the sand into my mouth! :-D
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 6/1/2007
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Incredible - looks like it was shot through an orange filter.
...Wayne
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 5/31/2007
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Point Made John !!!!! You said it all right THERE- When 'we know we are getting a shot of a life time' --
The last thing on earth we think of is if the camera ever works again...lol!!!!!!!!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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...hmmm yea, every place in the world has its nature...problems...lol...even I think hurricannes gives much more difficulties to the people... that is a friendly touch in the back...ok...we have earthquakes...I think more than your west coast! :-D
lol...at least in hurricannes you don't affread to loss your camera...the wind takes you and your camera bothly away! hahahahaha....kidding ofcaurse! ...and as you say, yes, when you get the magic eye, yes, I (and I think everybody) don't have into our mines any idea about the damage we can do to our cameras...lol...only when we pay the new one! :-DDDDD
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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...hmmm yea, every place in the world has its nature...problems...lol...even I think hurricannes gives much more difficulties to the people... that is a friendly touch in the back...ok...we have earthquakes...I think more than your west coast! :-D
lol...at least in hurricannes you don't affread to loss your camera...the wind takes you and your camera bothly away! hahahahaha....kidding ofcaurse! ...and as you say, yes, when you get the magic eye, yes, I (and I think everybody) don't have into our mines any idea about the damage we can do to our cameras...lol...only when we pay the new one! :-DDDDD
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 5/31/2007
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I can't even imagine what it is like John... I do worry for my camera when the winds are high as we do get hurricannes here on the coast in winter time---- and in summer sometimes 50 mile per hr. winds also... It would ruin my camera but I think you are saying in time it is so infiltrated thru out all the air - it is not concentrated anywhere to do camera damage (?))
I will read your comments tho and find them very interesting I am sure :))
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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...well after lot of time the lens works well...so the camera... I have some filters from my old Olympus C-5050 that does not works with my lenses...only on Canon 18-50 that is enouph small to take them....but here I don't use any kind of filter or PSing...and I don't remember the color temprature I had but mostly I use middle tempratures, like 6.500k or even 7.000k so the colors looks more natural and so that you see is not saturated... in other photos I have increase the temprature even at 10.000k that is the top of Canon 20D....just I had a bit more yellow result, not orange but still samely deep color...as also our eyes watch... lol...you outthere US don't have a sahara at your backs...hahahahaha...take a look to the comments of some people that know about that weather....believe me, some times the sand can go even to Austria and all Italy...but ofcaurse the medditeranian coasts takes lot of sand...and Creta is an island at the middle of Medditeranian sea, Sahara must be at about 400 miles away...!!!
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 5/31/2007
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Really ? the co;or is because of the sand and you do not need to worry for your lens John? Just clean it later and don't change the lens ????? I worry sometimes just here at the beach on very windy days as the lens can really get beat up :((
Did you use a filter ?
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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Thanks a lot dear Biljana for the very kind comment!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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Thanks a lot Michele...but believe me, o that weather with that color the last thing I had into my mind was the camera protection...lol..I just don't change lenses! :-D
...don't be sorry...I hope I could have one more day like that...:-D
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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Thanks my friend...yea...I must watch my lens and camera...but that time ...that thing was the last I have into my mind... :-D
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biljana mitrovic
{K:48110} 5/31/2007
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Amazing!!!!!The nature is so strong and so strange creator.....great shot even your eyes suffering :))
hugs dear friend
biljana
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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Thanks a lot Iman for the kind comment... yea, but surely at your place that clouds must be more closer to the ground so perchaps you ...'taste' it more than us! :-D anyway is was a great day for me...as I never have came to your country...something I must do before pass away! hahahahaha!!!!! You hate it because you have it more...but for me it was the day that anything I shot, it was a great shot!!!!!!! So simple!!!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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Thanks a lot Ameed for the great comment...
Even I haven't got there...I know well how the heat makes people feel like... even that wasn't a so hot day...not at all I can bet the temprature wasn't more than 25 Celsius but it was enouph hot so no rain and so that deep yellow...if it was rain (many times doing that) we have a clear sky in some minutes but we have a yellow ground! :-D
...and ofcaurse that looks like so yellow but the big problem was in reality at very high as the sand pass us mostly like a big cloud so the ...taste of the air surely wasn't so strong like the desert...at least I am on an island and the sea around us...gives a better result and a faster end on that type of weather!
Again thankds a lot for the very kind comment!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/31/2007
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Thanks my friend... no problems with my camera....hahaha...I had already dust to my sensor and there wasn't strong wind...I just don't change lenses or battary and generaly I had my camera very closed to me so the monitor - bottons back side was protected...a bit...hahaha...bad camera user! Am I? :-D
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 5/31/2007
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I remember being sooo amazed at another one of your Sand Storm shots- they are amazing... one question - how do you protect your camera tho ??? Quick shot and cover it or (???))))
Very excellent image my friend- great job- something I am glad you shared with us - ( sorry it happens ) BUT interesting to know about.... The color is amazing .....
Cheers,
Michele~
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Robert Gaither
{K:34128} 5/30/2007
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Watch out for that sand getting into your lens and camara and maybe your lungs. Excellent effect and composition.
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Iman Fouad
{K:12295} 5/30/2007
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Interesting sandstorm shot John..i believe its natural cause it happens just like this in Egypt..i felt i was in ..i hate this time:-( but i like so much this shot with nice angle and candid dramatic storm mood..well caught and presented my friend.
Regards
Iman
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Ameed El-Ghoul
{K:42215} 5/30/2007
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Hi John, This is a very ncie shot,
It is a very well known thing, it is because when it gets really hot in the Sahara, the air touching the surfice is really hot, then it expands and cary tiny pets of sands,
Specially in Kuwait, Where i was born and raised, it is a very very well known thing, it is called Tooz over there :)
Man I wouldn't go out and shoot in that weather :)
But you got a very nice shot over here,
Nice one and take good care :)
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Nicole Besch
{K:72664} 5/30/2007
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Oh my God...how worse!!!But finally you get an extraordinary shot!!!Did you have no problems with your camera afterwards??It looks realy eery!!Composition and tones are great!!
Glad that your are save..:)
Take care on you my friend,Nicole
7++++++++
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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hahaha...you can bet on that...take a look on Google Earth, type Heraklion or Creta and you will see where I am! :-D
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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Thanks a lot Gennaro for the kind comment!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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...yea...bad weather is a very good weather for photos my friend, sometimes the mother nature can gives the most unique effects! ...pitty that is not everyday...hahaha!
Thanks a lot my friend!
lol...I didn't have anything to protect my camera...there wasn't strong wind that day...I just don't change my lens! :-D
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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 5/30/2007
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Just to follow on from my previous comment, you probably are in fact closer to the Sahara!
AJ
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Gennaro Manna
{K:21301} 5/30/2007
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Beautiful colors and lighting.
very well done, best regards.
Gennaro
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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 5/30/2007
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What an amazing phenomenon - hope your camera was well protected! Never experienced this in Tarifa, though we are a little closer to the Sahara...
This is taking the "no PS, no filter" ethic to extremes - fascinating shot.
AJ
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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Thanks dear Srna for the kind comment, yea, some times nature 'play' with us, thanks a lot! :-)
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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Thanks my friend Mohamed for the kind comment!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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Thanks dear Elisa.... even not nice weather believe me...I need some more of it...many times the weather terns to yellow but not like that....that was only once... :-(
anyway... thanks again for the kind comment dear friend!
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/30/2007
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Well you can say that Pablo...yea... I think that day the sand storm cames also to south Italy...
The most of the people goes into the homes...but I was out there...breath the nice sand and taste it! hahahahaha!]
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Mohamed Badawy
{K:11828} 5/30/2007
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excellent john, so great this mood ... very nice composition, position & color tones, wonderful 7\7.
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Srna Stankovic
{K:172232} 5/30/2007
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Nature is miracle dear John !!!!
Thanks for sharing this amazing shot :))))
Hug
Srna
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NN
{K:26787} 5/30/2007
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Oh my!!! At least you can take advantage of the phenomenon by taking extraordinary pictures! Very surreal, very well composed!
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Pablo Dylan
{K:63918} 5/30/2007
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Strange but interesting composition.
Thank for about.
Pablo
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