Check out these weather images:

Weather alarm

Image by DailyM: ferrie=differentieel & Jöran Maaswinkel
Dutch weather services warned for extremely weather this was the view on my way home. (true colors btw)

Stormy weather.

Image by Free the Image
Flickr Friday #GoldenHour

Old Weathered Shell With Backlighting

Image by Bill Gracey
Maria brought in this old sea shell that had been weathering outside in a flower pot for at least five years, and thought I might want to play with it. I cleaned it up and then applied a light coating of olive oil to give it a little bit of a shine, and then took about 30 different pictures of it trying various different lighting arrangements. A fair amount of post processing went into cleaning up some of the the most glaring damage.

Lighting info: For this shot I wanted to emphasize the translucent qualities of the shell and fitted a Strobie 130 in a Rogue Grid (to constrain the light and keep it out of my lens) behind the shell to give it the back lighting I wanted. Fill light came from a YN560 in a 24 inch soft box camera left and a YN560-II in an identical 24 inch soft box camera right. The strobes were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

Other shells that I have exploited over the years can be seen in my Shell set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290/