pics i justs snapped of the pyrocumulus cloud from the station fire [pic]
 

from ~100 miles away.

100,000 acres burned, 200 mile circumference. 5% contained

http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/o...ttfranks/a.jpg

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That many Maersk cranes it looks like San Pedro :P

Awesome shots!

pedro baby! where the ghetto meets the sea.

http://www.randomlengthsnews.com/arc...fishjuly22.jpg

I love clouds... does that make me gay?

i was coming back from a shoot sat, getting on the 405 at sunset and just looked up towards hollywood, it looked like a bomb had just struck, the smoke was bellowing up towards 25000 ft..
my camera was locked up in the trunk (and i was tired..)

Great photos mate.

cool pic, clouds are interesting things.

I wish I had a camera with me this morning. Flying out of LAX was very strange with the smoke just laying there. The lack of wind is really messing up the air quality down there.

Haahaha I spent two months out there designing the software for that new big Maersk Pier back in 2002ish? The software was used to track the efficiency of Union workers (steadies) on the pier and how many moves each container took to get to its final location, etc...

When it went live they all pitched a fit and went on strike... Apparently Unions don't like having their efficiency tracked... image that! The application was removed... There went two years of my life! Ah well :(

burn baby burn

only americans understand how these "unions" work, they are extremely greedy and self protective. the clerks who are regular office staff (none of them have a college degree) make over $90K per year, the crane operators much more..
they dont allow newcomers into the union, only family..
few years ago they were forced to take in more staff and they advertised just to make it look like they were hiring, instead they all brought in their cousins and other family not already working there..

We are getting a little smoky here in Vegas from it...

Those are some wicked pictures.

it's a testimony to the economic powerhouse port of los angeles that it can be a huge money generator in spite of union shenanigans. it's amazing to see how much business the port does and creates.


not only that, but the port has the strictest pollution/air quality standards of any port in america, i believe even the world. above federal guidelines and on track to meet their goals in 2011.

Interesting pics :)

Thats not a cloud it is actually smoke billowing up... CNN Though it as cool too. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ire...time.lapse.cnn

please, dont' comment about things you do not know about and don't rely on cnn to know anything.



as i mentioned in the title, it's a pyrocumulus CLOUD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrocumulus_cloud

The smoke haze has made the moon appear to be orange from Las Vegas for the past 2 nights.

nice photos

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Yes.... how did you know? :Oh crap

Nice snap shots

Beautiful pics!

good pics you got, too bad its bad for nature

colum nimbus rules :)

That looks pretty damn scary actually.

pyro-what?

Nice pics

so crazy, hopefully everyone will be ok

cool shots

great pics, congrats

how did you JUST snap pics of the station fire if the station fire was in fucking 2003 in Rhode Island? :question

thats just crazy.

relax shithead.

http://news.google.com/news?q=statio...title&resnum=1

pretty photos, what a shame the clouds come from such a destructive force

my bad.

so they named a forest fire and called it the station fire. how did it get that name? is there something nearby called station? and whos THEY? and dont THEY know theres allready a fire called the station fire? WTF?

i figured out who they are
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aHJYpNTtrwU

neat photos

great pics :)

I used to go to San Pedro twice a week when I worked on the cruise ships. Loved going to the 6th Street Deli for breakfast :thumbsup

right on! cruise biz is kicking ass still, every sunday afternoon it's tooooooooooot toooooooooooooot
tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooot


hahahahah

i am not familiar with the 6th st deli, i will have to look for it.

cool pics...

nice pics :)