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Seems like we’ve got another Chinook here in Calgary. I went out for a walk, - didn’t want to miss a chance to marvel at my favorite ’spectacle’ the Mother Nature is staging every now and then in our area.

At some times we are lucky enough to see Chinook Arch while in the air..

.. like in this one: we flew an approach to Calgary from the West, and a flight path angle was sort of following the sloped Chinook Arch ceiling, - it was kinda cool to see these ‘grandiose’ cloud structures hanging up there, above your head.

But everybody knows Chinook is also associated with quite a strong wind, for, - by physical nature, - exactly the wind it is - a katabatic wind blowing from the slopes of mountains.

One thing about photographing Chinook: you can catch a terrific still view of cloud forms on your camera, but it is going to be a bit of challenge to convey an idea of motion, a ‘visual idea of wind’, - if you don’t have a camcorder

See, what kind of solution I found for this:

Click on the image!

Isn’t that funny?!

An ‘ancient’ (on the computer era ‘time line’) .GIF format is still able to deliver quite a decent result with minimum resources. I remembered my son set up an on-line ‘Gif-animator’ on Gickr.com a while ago, and I though I should give it a try. Check this out:

A still picture of blue sky on the horizon, and fantastic forms of Chinook Arch clouds..

.. and golden prairie grass moving under the wind. What suggestions would be with regard to options for reproducing NOISE?

Seems like it would be good idea to get a tripod to secure a camera still.

And a couple of images more..

..and one more (taken on another day, though)..

.. just to assert the fact that Alberta’s sky is one of the most spectacular on the continent.