There is the small matter of nothing but blue skies being a recipe for the end of all life on “our” planet.
Supplying water is, however, not clouds’ only good quality.
If you wish to photograph birds, trees or flowers – most especially if you are using a digital camera, and there is no “screen” of vegetation immediately behind them – intense, unshaded sunlight is not your “dreams come true”.
It is your “nightmare scenario”: one that will likely render your intended subjects as “silhouettes”….or “whited-out”, “flared-out”, “flat”, “drab”.
In either case, your bird or flower photos will likely lack detail/definition, and chances are that their colour balance will be ”off”, horribly.
When your target has feathers or flowers, particularly when you are more than 90 minutes distant from the sun’s notional rising or setting, a clouded sky is likely to prove a much better friend.
“Our” planet has just two white-tailed black cockatoo species.
Both of them live only in Western Australia’s southwest.
Both are in serious trouble.
For one of them, Hollywood Reserve is a favourite spot.
(the next two posts will include more info, and links)
An interested Perth resident – even one who lives in the CBD – can easily enjoy frequent encounters with more than a few feathered and flowering species which do not exist -naturally, at least – within any other substantial city.
In this particular sense, Perth is probably “our” planet’s most “blessed” metropolis.
I look forward to the day when a majority of Perth’s human population becomes aware of this!
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