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Dorothy Meets her Flight to Kansas

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Glenn Capers

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Dorothy Meets her Flight to Kansas

With all the wild weather I'm experiencing in my neighborhood. I figured this made a thrilling encounter about the power of nature. For me I was on the second chapter of the Wizard of Oz.

The greenhouse effect is getting worse and we the people of the planet just do get it. Today its just an act of god. In human comprehension it means God screwed you, by causing your insurance to go up on the next payment. If you cant pay the increase, well you're on your own. By the way the people that can't pay to repair are the 47 % of the people living off the government. The one's that can pay , find away to get the money from the government to pay for the damages, as long as it's not their money. This is not just the American way. It's the global way of the privilege class. Those that found away around the loop hole the rest fall into.
The storm itself becomes the artiest intent as if portraying the magnificent majestic sort of nature giving life to landscape, as if Doctor Frankenstein's author, a woman, Mary Shelley
wanted us to know what is to come when you mess with mother nature. Her book was publishes in 1818.

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Olga W 26/09/2013 9:10
Powerful Image, Glenn!
Greetings, cosmea
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Del-Hor 19/09/2013 20:56
Amazing photo. Great story.
Regards. DH
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Janos Gardonyi 18/09/2013 23:45
some clouds you have there... well, Mary Shelley sure would have done better to advise her husband Percy not to go sailing in a big storm without any sailing experience... we would have more of his magnificent poetry. thanks for the reference,Glenn janos
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Vera Shulga 16/09/2013 22:00
man is a nonentity in comparison with Nature..
Nature always finds a way to avenge himself
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Eddy Meurs 15/09/2013 18:16
Very very impressive.Great work.Gr.eddy
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s. sabine krause 14/09/2013 14:53
environmentally speaking, we aren't in kansas anymore, and won't be allowed back in. that flight has taken off without us! mary shelley was right, and overambitious icarus got too close to the sun, got burned and died of the fall eons ago, but what did we learn? we know what needed to be done, and yet we mess with nature all the time and are reluctant to change… – – what a thrillingly disastrous moment you captured here, glenn! the funnel-shaped tornado playfully lifting the roof as though it were a dry leaf: fascinating in an apocalyptic way! greetings, sabine.
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BRYAN CRUTE 14/09/2013 10:22
Great title for your shot
Nice one, but where is that wicked witch :-)

Regards
Bryan
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alexander stefanatos 14/09/2013 8:10
Glenn, you are quite right with your emotionaly strong and full of activistic meanings pictures, Philip(PDF) is right, Simonetta Cattaneo expressing Dworkin's theory is also right, but we all seem to end in the same conclusion always no matter if the problem is up-to-date and at the center of any policy debate as Simonetta insists: "The privilege class finds the way avoiding the hole. The rest fall into it". That has become an "axiomatic" social rule from ages ago, my friend Glenn, and I'm afraid will stay as that for ever...
As regards Nature, she is a rich, very faithful and extremely generous friend. And very patient also. As long as we don't interfere and mess up her interests. Then she becomes a very powerful, malicious and hostile ennemy expressing her vengeance in the most merciless way. And-what is most important- not choosing between priviledged or poor classes. This is why Nature has never been or will ever be God.
Your monochrome is superb and very emotional as always..
best regards alexander

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rschaefer 14/09/2013 0:15
Very impressive!!!
Greetings, Rebecca
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Ken Piros 13/09/2013 23:59
Powerful image and description Glenn.
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MissNeugier 13/09/2013 23:23
Oh oh.....a kindly flight ;-))
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Inez Correia Marques 13/09/2013 23:09
Lol!! Yes
it is thrilling

Marvelous moment

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