'Blown away:' Ingersoll, Ont., photographer captures more than just a storm in 'perfect' shot

[Spazito]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/lake-erie-wave-face-1.6663661

Most people avoid the beach on a stormy day. Not Cody Evans.

The howling wind and churning waters are what draw the Ingersoll, Ont., photographer to Lake Erie regularly, with the mission of capturing the perfect shot — and last Friday was his lucky day.

Of the more than 10,000 photos he took, one appeared to look like a face.

Evans said it he thinks it resembles the face of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the sea and storms.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/lake-erie-wave-face-1.6663661

[judesedit]

1. Really kind of spooky and very cool. A once in a lifetime shot

And you took it. It will be shared a zillion times. Great work. Thanks for sharing

[Spazito]

4. Oh I wish it was me but my photography includes ...

my thumb all too often, lol. I can only dream about having the talent to take photos like this.

[KS Toronado]

17. Me too, all I can do is copy & paste.

[Spazito]

18. Thank you for this!

I can't even copy and paste CBC photos from articles for some reason and this definitely needs to be seen!

[KS Toronado]

20. Was glad to help

[soldierant]

34. Different operating systems and different browsers

have different ways to capture pictures

But DU uses a comment system which requires a URL. So I think the easiest might be to right click on the picture you want, and look thrugh the dropdown menu to see whether there is a command to "Copy Image URL" Easiest and also fastest.

That's unlike, for instance, Disqus, which requires that the image be saved somwhere on your hardware - the main hard drive, a portable hard drive, even a thumb drive will do, but it has to be on your computer.

Different commenting systems work differently. I'm used to a few of them but not all of them.

[Spazito]

35. Thanks!

I will try your suggestions for sure. I can copy and paste most things but not CBC photos and it could well be I'm using the wrong command to do so.

[soldierant]

33. Certainly shows why

you don't want to mess with Poseidon.

My bachelor's was in classical languaes, and I love this.

[Bev54]

8. He took many shots and did not even notice till he was going through them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Paying respect to Jerry

[Martin Eden]

3. Wow!

And apparently legit, not photoshopped.

[Spazito]

5. It is very legit...

and took him thousands of photos to capture this perfection, that is both great talent and great patience.

[Blue Owl]

6. The seas were angry that day my friends....

[Spazito]

7. LOL!

[NullTuples]

16. Please explain this? My brain is refusing to accept it

That's New Horizons Pluto geography and Seinfeld was off the air by then?

[tavernier]

29. It's from an episode

https://tilt.goombastomp.com/tv/seinfelds-greatest-scene-the-marine-biologist-monologue/

[NullTuples]

31. Thank you! It's a golf ball in the original episode then, not a modern model of Pluto.

I very, very vaguely remember the original after reading that link - thanks again!

(and now I'm curious as to why someone post-2016 spliced in an animation of Pluto. I mean, what was the context?)

[burrowowl]

9. Wow! 10,000 shots hope he has an

Automatic button presser.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. It's called spray and pray. Hold the button down, get 6 shots per second

It's not an inherently bad technique, it certainly has its place when all the other elements are taken care (in which case it is not really spraying). But don't be a poor photographer who unthinkingly just shoots as if it were a machine gun and sprays and prays and hopes.

[2naSalit]

10. Neptune rules...

All large navigable waters. Looks pissed.

I went out fishing with some pals on Lake Erie once, felt like those pictures look.

[wnylib]

24. Lake Erie can be very rough and choppy sometimes,

and other times it is calm and smooth as glass, with barely a ripple.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...

The answer is blowin' in the wind.......

[wnylib]

36. The answer is the wind blowing across a large, shallow body of water.

[luvtheGWN]

32. Lake Erie is Buffalo's worst nightmare

in late fall. Shallow and warm(ish) waters, plus wind result in one hell of a lot of snow. Some places got 7 feet last week.

Congrats to the photographer who took this absolutely stunning pic!

[wnylib]

37. I know. The WNY part of my DU name

stands for "Western NY." I am not in Buffalo, but near there. I grew up on Lake Erie at Erie, PA, which is about 100 miles west of Buffalo. Sometimes, before cable TV, we could get TV stations from across the lake at London, Ontario, where the photographer in the OP took his photos. Also, I lived for 5 years in Cleveland, which is around 100 miles west of Erie on Lake Erie.

I have seen many storms on the lake and many calm, glassy days at the beaches on Lake Erie.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

39. My first encounter with lake effect snow was....

during a field service job I did in Kane, PA back in the 90s. I had to drive to Warren one evening to pick up an air freight package during a snow storm. The snow "flakes" looked as big as golf balls and blinded me through the windshield but thank goodness, I made it back to Kane. The Tennessee boy will never forget that experience. If we had just ground cover there just every few winters in the 50s/60s, it was huge news on the Nashville networks.

By far the worst winter job I ever did was in Lorain, Ohio in a steel mill with every damn thing on the job site covered with about an inch of solid ice. Lots of slips and falls among the construction crews, most of whom were from the South.

Small world!

[wnylib]

42. Warren, PA is in a snow belt area and often gets heavy storms.

They are too far inland to call it lake effect snow. At Warren it's due to being in the Allegheny foothills.

Lorain, Ohio - When I lived in the Cleveland area, it was at the far western suburb of Westlake, on the edge of Cuyahoga County. So I'm familiar with Lorain. Yes, they get their share of snow and ice. At Westlake, we often missed the worst winter and even summer storms. Storm clouds would lift and blow over us to the eastern and southern suburbs. The exception was the Ohio blizzard of 1978, which hit most of the state. We were the first area of Cuyahoga County to get it and it remains the worst winter storm that I have ever experienced in my life.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

44. The Great Lakes are really inland seas, they are so big. . . . nt

[Joinfortmill]

11. Wow!

[murielm99]

12. OMG!

Rec

[elleng]

13. WOW!

[Butterflylady]

14. Unreal!!!!!

[mountain grammy]

15. Amazing.. just WOW!

[Warpy]

19. Looks like Baby Huey

and probably didn't last longer than a few milliseconds, so it's an amazing shot.

[Spazito]

21. It really is...

great talent and incredible timing combined to create this moment. Breathtaking.

[reACTIONary]

22. Very annoying! It always annoys me that...

... I can't look at a picture like this and NOT see a face. It's annoying that my brain FORCES this interpretation on me, against the reality of what is actually there. I stare at it and try to make the face go away. It doesn't. Very annoying.

[Spazito]

23. LOL!

[masmdu]

26. You suffer from Pareidolia...we all do

[reACTIONary]

28. LOL Nice collection, but...

... Where is burnt toast jebus?

[Lulu KC]

46. Cracks me up

Thanks for sharing. My husband and I are thrilled when one of us sees a thing with a face.

[wnylib]

25. Where's his trident? Blown away in his own storm?

[niyad]

27. Looks like a big, fluffy dog to me.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

40. My first impression, too.

As in....

[Lulu KC]

47. Yup.

Did he mean to say, "a poodle he knows, whose name was Poseidon," do you think? (Not to minimize the wonder of the shot!)

[wnylib]

38. I grew up on Lake Erie at Erie, PA, across the lake from London, Ontario.

When I was in junior high, a social studies teacher on the second floor of the building saw a funnel cloud through his window, to the north of the school and raised the alarm for a tornado. We all scrambled to our designated safe places.

It turned out to be a large water spout on the lake, not a tornado.

[sinkingfeeling]

41. Great shot of Poseidon.

[twodogsbarking]

45. I vote ten.