Cold summer weather :(

[Ivan J. Eberle]

It's been unusually sunny and fog-free in Monterey, CA this summer, as the Humbolt Current in the Pacific isn't upwelling cold water to the surface. An El Nino is forming.

[Richard M. Coda]

It's called "global warming"

We had the "coolest" June in recorded history here in the Phoenix, AZ area. We actually had two weeks early in the month where we could keep the windows open, granted I live in far north Scottsdale at an elevation of 2865 ft. and it is a tad cooler up here (we occasionally get snow in winter).

But that's all over now... summer's here.

I see New England and the Mid Atlantic states are enjoying a beautiful summer so far.

[Brian Ellis]

Thinking about the mystery in equivalents is distracting. Like your photo, they lack scale, reference, location, etc... This creates abstraction, lessening the role of that mystery. They still contain the things you like and have listed.

I'd read about the equivalents a long time ago, but got a chance to see a couple of them a year or two ago when they had a Georgia Okeefe exhibit at the portland maine museum of art. They had some Stieglitz photos and even a couple Ansel Adams photos too.

regarding mystery and abstraction... Sometimes I come across a negative in the darkroom full of goodness. I can figure out the mystery of it by starting at it under a light for a few seconds. But aside from that, I am immediately attracted to it because of various qualities present and look forward to printing it. These qualities are the abstract things we like in most of our photographs regardless of the subject. In the case of the negative the abstracted qualities such as composition, tones, patterns, and other impressions might make a notable impression on the person printing before the actual subject matter is understood by the person printing.

I've never been real big into photographing flowers. If you're looking to express something 100% natural, you really don't know if the flower is representative of someone's masterful garden or something cool discovered in nature, with the macro short DOF etc.. common to flower photos. Elliot Porter has a few nice natural setting flower photos amongst his books.

I have a 2-volume boxed set of books published by the Met years ago that has most everything known of Stieglitz's work in it, including all of the Equivalents, at least all he ever made public. Along about the 50th Equivalent you realize you can live very easily without ever again seeing a photograph of clouds.

We've had gorgeous weather here in Bend since mid-May, sunny days, temperatures in the mid-60s - 70s during the day, chilly at night and early morning, very dry, only a couple really hot days though a hot spell is predicted starting today. Undoubtedly the nicest spring and early summer we've had in the four years we've lived here. Bill, I remember those Florida summers that last 6 months all too well, they're one of the main reasons we moved here.

[Sal Santamaura]

It's called "global warming" ...

The preferred term today is "climate change" so that those who deny the phenonenon exists can't make jokes when local conditions are cooler.

The planet, when one integrates temperatures over its entire surface, is warming. The polar ice is melting. Joking about or denying it doesn't change reality.

[jp]

Weather is finally improved in the NE. Got sunny weather and the cumulus clouds I was looking for! I've been out of town working outside for a couple days, but was able to take a short break today and get the photo I've wanted for a month now.

[Photojeep]

I live in Las Vegas...(yes, That Las Vegas)

In the desert...(109 two days ago)

I'd love to have cool and rainy summer weather...

Oh well, November isn't that far away...

We hope to be down to 80 by then...

[Terence McDonagh]

Rain/thunderstorms predicted for the next 9 days here (NYC). At least it keeps things cool.

[walter23]

Blazingly hot here. Outside is a furnace from about 10am till 7 or 8 pm.

[walter23]

The preferred term today is "climate change" so that those who deny the phenonenon exists can't make jokes when local conditions are cooler.

The planet, when one integrates temperatures over its entire surface, is warming. The polar ice is melting. Joking about or denying it doesn't change reality.

We had an unusually cold winter a year or so ago, in Alberta, land of oil riches and broken hospitals. Of course the papers were full of told-ya-sos and such, but the analogy I like to use is this: imagine the average age of a first year university class is 19. Now imagine you ask one guy and he happens to be 27. Does that mean the class is an unusually old class? No. The average can still be 19.

One data point doesn't tell you anything about a trend or an average.