Beautiful Clouds
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Another version of the Grand Haven lighthouse in a hard winter freeze.
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Taken from Crow Park in Keswick. The Island in the centre is owned by the National Trust and is open to visitors on just 5 days a year. Just behind the island is Catbells, looking it's best in the Autumn colours.
I have another star in my sky, I lost my dearest mother-in-law the first of January. She was a remarkable person, an incredible woman, mother, grandmother and grand grandmother. She will always be in my heart.
Los Angeles. California.
Veduta della Val Gardena, dal Rasciesa, con al centro il gruppo del Sassolungo e del Sassopiatto.
View of Val Gardena, from Rasciesa, with the Sassolungo and Sassopiatto groups in the centre.
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Aberystwyth Harbour, The far left is Trefechan Bridge (Pont Trefechan), The Malt Kilm, the Marina (left of centre) and on the right hand side Y Geulan - used to build boats in the 19th century
Iridescent clouds, known as "fire rainbows" or "rainbow clouds," occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere. And the recipe for these heavenly sights is actually pretty simple.
What happens is that the cumulus cloud, boiling upwards, pushes the air layers above it higher and higher. As the air gets pushed upwards, it expands and cools. And sometimes moisture in that air suddenly condenses into tiny droplets to form a cap cloud.
This "cap"—which scientists call a "pileus"—is the source of the brilliant spectacle.
The droplets in the cap cloud scatter sunlight to form the gorgeous colors.
Los Angeles. California.
This spot is in the Southern Flinders Ranges, just north of the delightful town of Burra, South Australia.
It was mid-afternoon and a storm front was passing through with bands of rain, hailstones, and a gusting wind so strong that I found it impossible to stand in the one spot as I had to continually move about to avoid being blown off my feet.
I turned my 4W/D sideways to form both a wind break and shelter from the rain which soon eased, and this scene was captured through the open window of the driver’s door.
As can be seen in this capture, the sky was a swirling mass of clouds of every description, all rushing headlong across the sky as they headed south.
It was absolutely freezing cold, and the forecast indicated that snow was possible. As far as I know, snow did not eventuate however, I soon headed for warmer surrounds at Broken Hill before returning a couple of days later.
It is very cold and calm with patches of mist in this pre-dawn light in the Mallee district of the State of Victoria, Australia.
There is no wind but overhead these unusual clouds are being pushed along at speed, from left to right by a seemingly strong and gusting wind, which is tearing and fraying the edges of these clouds.
Five days later I am in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, 550 kilometres (340 miles) away as the crow flies, when I capture this unusual cloud formation which looked like a unicorn www.flickr.com/photos/184121594@N02/51745951211/
Here this cloud is likewise being torn and frayed by a strong wind whilst all is calm around me.
The next day the Flinders Ranges were visited by a dust storm with very strong, hot, gusting wind - a most unpleasant day.
More haste less speed. .We are just going out for a meal and told Jonathan I would be ready in 5 minutes...50 minutes ago...ooerr
Greetings. I hope you have had a happy Sunday. Wishing you a happy and joyful week ahead. Take care and have lots of fun.
Ps I am looking forwards to summer and hopefully some warmth and sunshine.
This is a shot taken off US-395 somewhere near the California-Nevada State line on the California side. I think Coleville is the closest town, not even at stop-sign, so don't blink, you'll miss it. There's a nice stream that runs along this single lane highway as you drop down from the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. You can't see it in this shot, it's down below the vegetation to the left and the highway is hidden on the right.
As I've said before, I drive past Mount Shasta fairly often, and have taken quite a few pictures of it. Most of the time I just drive on by, but once in awhile I just have to stop. (she's got to impress me these days with a "special" look before I'll take her picture) This day the clouds were moving and most of the peak was obscured from sight by the clouds. I was liking the clouds, but wanted them to clear from the peak a little. I decided to park, take a 30 minute break and hopefully get lucky and get more of a peek. Kinda glad I waited.
it's incredible how light it stays outside out in Canada even at about 10pm.....this was just 8pm and it was still pretty bright out and the sun, which was setting down just behind me still had quite a ways to go even at past 8pm.....i think blue hour was about 10pm or just past 10pm.....took several angles and perspectives of this beautiful lake which i will post later....have a good morning friends!!!! pls. View On Black
this shot was processed as a single file pseudo HDR to exagerrate the cloud formations a bit and add some drama....i think i like the original version better but i just love doing HDR's as well so here it is/////
Greetings. I hope you are having a happy Sunday.
Wishing you a happy week ahead.
Have lots of fun and take care.
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.
Hugh Prather.
We can never get close as dogs not allowed on the beach. This was taken many years ago on my Nikon d300 and the 24mm DX lens..
Finch Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
I am always thrilled to get opportunities for some photography when we go backpacking. It is the best, you are right on location to get 2 golden hours. This trip was to Finch Lake in RMNP, and it was an extremely special trip! Just after we finished up dinner, Lauren and I walked back down to the lake to get ready for sunset. I proposed just as the sun ducked behind Copeland Mt. and she said yes! Just as it was starting to look like we weren't going to get any magical light, the clouds began building and the light started to explode. As I've said before, Longs Peak is always begging to be photographed, and this night didn't change that. Looking north we began to see Longs light up and I turned my camera towards the action. This was a wonderful treat for us just after we got engaged. This was the first time that I've gotten great light for both sunset and sunrise on a backpacking trip, I'll be posting my sunrise shot in the coming days. I am excited about the shots I got from such a magical weekend.
Thanks!
You can watch the short 4 minute video of our backpacking trip to Finch Lake here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mbve4d_B9M&t=1s
This was taken last Saturday when Chicagoland was having a variety of different kinds of weather. Snowing like crazy one minute & then the sun was shining. This was one of the clouds that produced some very heavy snow showers heading east. I was leaving Fermilab after attending WGN Tom Skilling's annual weather seminar (which was very interesting, as it always is).