Thread by @JulieTheCranky

It so happens I just ran across a whole bunch of 2020 photography awards on Mind Circle. Let's see what we see, hmm? #ArtWatch

JP and Mike Andrews, until further notice, with 'abstract' aerial photography. If I can tell what it is, is it abstract?

I don't know where this is, but they park much better than in the US. (All these are great, I'm just pondering the term 'abstract'.)

I love that the shadow's the camel. Or is it?

These are either evaporation ponds for something, drainage ponds for something, or most likely paddies/fields for aquatic plants. Rice or taro are most likely.

I THINK this is where the White Nile and Blue Nile meet. But there are a couple other places in the world like this.

Like a thread through fabric.

Pretty sure those are barges or container ships? Otherwise, I got nothin'. They also park better than Yanks.

My teen years in one photo!

Some kind of flower field. I'd say tulips but they don't come in green? Maybe they aren't blooming?

Hub's favorite years in the Navy in one image!

Now landscape photographer Zach Cooley.

That's pretty damn good.

These are telemetric double photos, meaning moon on one layer, people on another. But still kinda neat. Would make one hell of a wedding photo. That's probably a deadly insult to art photographers, but LOOK AT IT.

The portion that looks like a modern necklace is probably the St Louis Arch. Or a very bendy Washington Monument. But I'd bet on the St Louis Arch.

The water photo we're puzzling over could be from the North Sea as well:

Satisfying photos, links are in this article, you can track through to instagram and all that.
themindcircle.com/30-pictures-wi…

The doggo lines up with the water. What a clever doggo!

Kinda trippy, kinda creepy, great photo.

I wonder if they stood there and waited for the shadow to shift just right.

Ten points for the matchup, minus ten for making my eyes go all squidgy?

This one's fun. It's taken through a double-glazed (two panes of glass) window.

This one, I wonder how far they walked to get that lineup. But it's still great.

The skier's clothes line up. I love photos like this. They're just so WEIRD.

And again. I always wonder if these are intentional.

Whoop, god got careless with her exacto knife.

Aaand again. LOL

As someone who laid a tile or two, this person deserved a raise.

The Drone Photo Awards of 2020! As before, here's the article, click through for artists and their social media accounts, etc. themindcircle.com/drone-2020/

...that's pretty damned alarming but I've found many people in boats are kind of dumb about what's cool and what's not, in the water around them.

Flamingos at lake Logipi. Hey, details! Yay!

That is a shitload of birds.

Highway cloverleaf (and then some), empty during lockdown. Very steampunk.

"Alien Structure on Earth" ha, this is the Petronas Towers.

Really cool architecture, the shapes of the floors are based on mandalas.

Badass photo of the Shanghai World Finance Center.

I believe this is a road up through Norway.

Called "Crater Row" I've no idea where this is. It's not Kiluea. That's all I've got. Check out the road at the bottom for scale, with a car on it, that was good framing.

These are Munks Mobula Rays. In the ocean. Where I hope they stay.

"Waterfall," I believe that's a surfer.

Now the weather photography of the year awards.
themindcircle.com/weather-photog…

The above photo is from Lake Baikal. FYI.

Long Coc Tea Hills. It's like a damn fairyland.

From Mallorca, I assume this is a lightning strike on the Med.

And a photo from a high school kid in Missouri who had this thunderstorm cloud turn up and got a great photo. She named it "Surf's Up" and this is called an "anvil shaped" cloud and they usually come with hail and hell breaking loose.

And this is a shelf cloud. Photographer waited two hours to get the photo, then added it made a real mess after it got there. I bet.

"Dam Wet" haha, water sheeting down a spillway.

Not trying to sound snobby or condescending, but note the stuff with people or cars or buildings in it for scale, is more likely to make us go 'holy shit'. Just sayin' since we all have phones in our pockets now.

Mind-blowing shot of the Adda River.

Dust storm in Arizona, a mile high.

Thunderstorm (clearly) over El Paso, TX. Lightning's cool but being able to see rain clearly coming down is fascinating. And then in warm weather, on the rained-on side, it'll steam.

Color contrast in the last two photos was pretty fucking cool, too. (And warm. ha.)

And in closing, a lenticular cloud!

We'll see if I do more photos, but tonight I'm going to bed.