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On another occasion there would have been a stunning view of Cadair Idris and the other Welsh mountains in this southern part of the Snowdonia National Park, but this time the cloud base was extremely low. However, the famous Grade II*-listed railway viaduct across the Afon Mawddach stood out in stark contrast.
The bridge was originally constructed in 1867 and was designed by Benjamin Piercy, engineer to the Cambrian Railways. The single-track railway viaduct (751 yards long) has 113 groups of timber supports (pile bents) and a 5-span steel section incorporating a swing bridge (built in 1899) towards the Barmouth end. A lower boarded pedestrian walkway, which I remember walking across as a child, was added in 1868-79.
LPPT. Under terrible meteorological conditions with torrential rain and low cloud base / Sob condições meteorológicas terrÃveis com chuva torrencial e nuvens baixas....
1225 Boeing C-17A Globemaster III United Emirates Air Force.
I recently completed my twelfth trip up to the Ptarmigan so far this year.
Conditions this winter have been the most challenging, but this also give chances for different shooting conditions. Shooting in falling snow is rare ( as you would normally be in the cloud base) so it was great to spend some time with this active territorial male in near perfect conditions.
With the cloud base starting to break 66723 Chinook rolls by Barrow-on-Trent heading 6O01 Scunthorpe to Eastleigh rail train.
In meteorology, a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. These suspended particles are also known as aerosols and are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology.
Terrestrial cloud formation is the result of air in Earth's atmosphere becoming saturated due to either or both of two processes; cooling of the air and adding water vapor. With sufficient saturation, precipitation will fall to the surface; an exception is virga, which evaporates before reaching the surface.
Clouds in the troposphere, the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface, have Latin names due to the universal adaptation of Luke Howard's nomenclature. It was introduced in December 1802 and became the basis of a modern international system that classifies these tropospheric aerosols into several physical forms or categories, then cross-classifies them into families of low, middle and high according to cloud-base altitude range above Earth's surface. Clouds with significant vertical extent are often considered a separate family. One physical form shows free-convective upward growth into low or vertical heaps of cumulus. Other forms appear as non-convective layered sheets like low stratus, and as limited-convective rolls or ripples as with stratocumulus. Both of these layered forms have middle- and high-family variants identified respectively by the prefixes alto- and cirro-. Thin fibrous wisps of cirrus are a physical form found only at high altitudes. In the case of clouds with vertical extent, prefixes are used whenever necessary to express variations or complexities in their physical structures. These include cumulo- for complex highly convective vertical nimbus storm clouds, and nimbo- for thick stratiform layers with sufficient vertical depth to produce moderate to heavy precipitation. This process of cross-classification produces ten basic genus-types or genera, most of which can be subdivided into species and varieties. Synoptic surface weather observations use code numbers to record and report any type of tropospheric cloud visible at scheduled observation times based on its height and physical appearance.
While a majority of clouds form in Earth's troposphere, there are occasions when they can be observed at much higher altitudes in the stratosphere and mesosphere. Clouds that form above the troposphere have common names for their main types, but are sub-classified alpha-numerically rather than with the elaborate system of Latin names given to cloud types in the troposphere. These three main atmospheric layers that can produce clouds, along with the lowest part of the cloudless thermosphere, are collectively known as the homosphere. Above this lies the heterosphere (which includes the rest of the thermosphere and the exosphere) that marks the transition to outer space. Clouds have been observed on other planets and moons within the Solar System, but, due to their different temperature characteristics, they are composed of other substances such as methane, ammonia, and sulfuric acid.
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Sunrise 08:39 Sunset 16:07 Moonrise 16:09 Moonset 09:44
Fine weather
Temperture +6.5c wind chill 6.2c
Pressure 1036.2mbs falling Rain 0.0
Wind speed 2.2 mph direction 122 degrees dominant wind direction south.
cloud base 3,500 feet.
A series of images from an assault on Glaramara in the English Lake District in July 2021 that was abandoned due to clag (low cloud).
The fell (hill) to the right is Glaramara. On a good day, if you go via Allen Crags, which was the plan, there are spectacular views down into Mickleden and Langdale, over to to the Scafell range and across to Great End and Great Gable. With the cloud base stubbornly hovering just above 600m, though, this was not a good day and the only thing we’d be seeing, all the way back along the ridge, would’ve been the inside of a cloud.
Now, being in the mountains in clag can be quite atmospheric so, rather than abandoning the walk, we decided to break off onto the path to Sprinkling Tarn, have lunch and return to Seathwaite via Styhead where we met a gang of intrepid-looking young men asking directions for Scafell Pike. The conversation went thus:
ME: Have you got a map?
THEM: Nope.
ME: Ah. Do you have a map app or some such?
THEM: Like Google Maps?
ME: Ah. Will you be coming back this way?
THEM: No, we’re going to Wasdale Head.
ME: Ah. See those guys over there? Follow them.
THEM: OK. Cheers!
ME: Aye. You’ll sleep tonight, lad.
Before they left, I had them take a photo of the relevant section of my map. The folk I sent them after were doing ‘The Corridor Route’, it’s very popular (even midweek, now) so the paths are good and obvious, there’s only one mildly dodgy bit, although the cloud was low, there was no rain forecast and it doesn’t get dark till well after nine; they’d be fine. They’re young, they’ll have an adventure they can celebrate later in the bar, they’ll not see anything other than the ground beneath their feet but they’ll’ve conquered Scafell Pike.
Dear god.
Dull and cloudy evening, just a few patches of light occasionally picking out something. Briefly a patch fell on the hillside near the peak of North Barrule in the background... it typically it's hidden beneath a low cloud base, even in summer, so I should be grateful it put in an appearance.
50023 "Howe" (OC) - 3B09 (1550 SX London Paddington - Swansea via Bristol Temple Meads, which was formed of 6 RES parcel vans) - Iver (lnog before electrification & the closure of the footbridge) - 1616 - 21/05/87.
I was hoping to get out with the camera this afternoon , but it's only 7C & the cloud base is so low, that I couldn't even see A9C-HAK passing over the house a few minutes ago (1326) at only 2,500ft!!
June 1, 2011 Kearney Nebraska US
Rolling into city limits on the western side of the city. This storm had the perfect light reflecting off of it.
Nice Rain / Hail core just north of the city with the cloud base all the way to the south side of the city. Impressive light creating some cool storm imagery against this storm cell.
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The Fernsehturm (English: Berlin TV Tower) is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.
This photo was taken on approach into Berlin in a special low fog situation, with a very low and thin cloud base leaving only "Alex" visible and the whole city covered with a cloud layer.
Close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the administration of the German Democratic Republic. It was intended as a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today,[1] as it is easily visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the second tallest structure in the European Union (by half a metre).
The tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of the country and is often in the establishing shot of films set in Berlin. Due to its location near Alexanderplatz, the tower is occasionally called "Alex" Tower. With almost 1.2 million visitors every year, the Berlin TV tower is one of the most popular attractions for tourists in Berlin. From 203 and 207 metres high you can look out over the entire city with its large number of tourist attractions.
The RAF Red Arrows display team performing with a low cloud base for HMS Prince of Wales in Portsmouth Harbour. Their last public performance before 2022. Using our house as a turning point. Yeah!
Light was fading fast.
There was some heavy cloud up here yesterday as the sun began to dip. It made for some unusual and strong colours as the sun moved through the small gap between the cloud base and the horizon.
This was my final frame of the day - a long exposure made after the sun had departed.
Click twice to enlarge. These images occurred over a 5 minute period. I think it unusual to see horizontal forked (branched) lightning. The bright star in middle and lower panel is Jupiter.
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June 1, 2011 Kearney Nebraska US
Rolling into city limits on the western side of the city. This storm had the perfect light reflecting off of it.
Nice Rain / Hail core just north of the city with the cloud base all the way to the south side of the city. Impressive light creating some cool storm imagery against this storm cell.
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I feel as though I've broken free from a self induced mind trap this week. You see, as retirement gets closer, on my hour long drives to work in the early hours of the morning I had begun to ruminate about "where am I with my photography". My spirit still feels as though I am 30, but my aches and pains tell my mind that I am old, and that is where I was feeling like I've been left at the starting gate with photography. Added to that feeling was the realization that as my wife and I plan our retirements out financially life is still throwing curve balls at us with a couple of expensive home repairs (I suppose buying an older home those will come up). So the thought of having to upgrade my 10 year old computer now because the newest version of Photoshop wouldn't run on my system was weighing on me as well. BUT then lightening struck! I had not realized that even though Adobe is a cloud based monthly subscription and would not update on my ancient Mac that I could still use older versions that WOULD work.
After figuring this out I feel revitalized and I have also realized that even though I cannot hike as quickly as I once could with a bag of gear, I can now enjoy the details along the journey. :-)
Taken 26 Aug 21 with Fujifilm X-T3. This storm was about 25 miles away over northern Colorado. The cloud to ground strikes illuminated rain shaft while possible anvil crawlers with multiple branches extended horizontally beneath the cloud base.
A longer version of this can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vqbJG5ooTI.
Picture of the Day
This photo possibly falls in to the category of not being that eye-catching, but I'm posting it anyway as the moment in time was definitely eye catching for me.
This morning was spent soaring over Morrone on a slightly foreboding looking day; the sky was fairly cloudy, and rain could be seen approaching from the depths of the Cairngorms. It all ended up flanking south, and when a little bit of sun broke through to warm up the heather-covered hills, we were soon up at cloud-base, and for a moment I found myself treading carefully in the white room, at the edge of a cloud that I'd climbed under and stayed a little too close to. Aiming for light, I broke through the side of the cloud, and in that moment I was presented with tunnel-like vision of sunny Braemar below me. A few seconds later I took this shot, which isn't nearly as dramtic but I still like the last fragments of cloud floating in front of me.
Late day winter sun strikes the Toiyabe Range over the Reese River Basin. Classic Nevada basin and range landscape near Austin, complete with lenticular wave clouds. Based on a topo of the area, I speculate the prominent peak is Bunker Hill, but need to research a bit more to be sure.
I decided to upload this image (although not perfectly aligned) because of the unusual contrast between the towering cumulo-nimbus and its cloud base. It almost looks like the thunderstorm is beyond a mountain ridge as some moisture in the form of low clouds is spilling over it. It's all about lighting and timing in order to capture something interesting and different.
Sometimes patience is a huge asset, and can make or break an image. Now, to be fair, we don’t always have the time to wait for a scene to come together, nor is it often easy to return to a location to get better conditions. With this scene, however, I ended up doing both.
We camped near here on our hike north, and again on our path south. On our first path through the area, I had scouted this lovely little scene for a sunrise image, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out for me. I ended up with gloomy skies, and not a drop of tasty light. On the way back south, however, incredible light was common almost all day. When we arrived in the area, I went straight here to set up. While the exciting light was persistent throughout the day, the cloud base was just a hair too low. You couldn’t see the top of the peak. I ended up waiting quite a while for a moment of clarity, and thankfully that ended up being this image. Moments later and the peak was obscured again. Incredible day.
Late afternoon sunlight breaks through the clouds above Hope Valley to send catchlights down to the valley floor and on to Lose Hill which stands at the end of the Great Ridge, leading from Mam Tor.
I hung around to se if a hint of sunset colour would come through the low cloud base, but as would be expected, it was very subtle at best, which is fine by me as I am not a fan of strong sunrise/sunset skies as too often they unbalance an image.
Decided to trial my new 300mm f2.8 prime lens this afternoon at LHR. Some of the most challenging conditions I have ever photographed faced us when we arrived. It was grey, wet, miserable and with a 800ft cloud base.
This giant belonging to Qantas arrives from Melbourne on QF9, with some nice fluff off the wings.
This image shows a section of the Taurus Molecular Cloud based on a combination of data from ESA’s Herschel and Planck space telescopes. The bright areas in the picture shows the emission by interstellar dust grains in three different wavelengths observed by Herschel (250, 350, and 500 microns) and the lines crossing the image in a ‘drapery pattern’ represent the magnetic field orientation (based on the Planck data.)
This molecular cloud is one of the closest regions of star formation, at around 450 light years from us, and is known to contain more than 250 young stellar objects. The section in this image shows the archetypical example of a filament in a star-forming cloud. The main filament that stretches from the left of the image and curves up to the hub is known as the Lynds Dark Nebula 1495 (L1495).
L1495 contains several Barnard Dark Nebulae, which are dust-filled regions cataloged by astronomer Edward Bernard in 1919 and known as Barnard Objects. Dark nebulae are extremely dense regions of dust that obscure visible light. The central bright region is known as B10, with B211 and B213 stretching out from the bright area.
The B213/L1495 nebula is a clear example of a star-forming region where the magnetic field lines are perpendicular to the main filament, and also contains striations, or material that appears perpendicular to the filament.
Credits: ESA/Herschel/Planck; J. D. Soler, MPIA
We went to Cosford Air Show yesterday. I took HUNDREDS of photographs and was disappointed in all but a couple of them. I now have an even greater regard for aviation photographers!
The weather wasn't ideal; overcast with a low cloud-base and towards the end of the day, drizzly. I didn't have enough "reach" with the equipment I was using (OK, here come the excuses) and was uncertain as to the best settings to use. I think it was a matter of "all the gear and no idea".
All the images very very "flat". This was one of (what I consider); my better shots. It has required a considerable amount of aggressive post-processing to make it look anywhere near decent. This is an area of photography where I need considerably more practice!
Another shot from the 2018 British All-Comers open, just before the start of a task set from the hills near Basano. Flying unpowered aircraft, altitude is our gasoline; we take any opportunity nature gives us to climb higher in the sky for we know as well as anyone that what goes up must come down again. Cloud base was not much higher than the launch, so we soon found ourselves jostling for every last metre of altitude, trying to surf any little wisp up the side of the ominous-looking, but actually quite benign clouds. Flying in cloud is generally forbidden, and in competitions it is seen as un-sporting as it can give an unfair advantage of altitude.
Sunset at Trifels Castle - View from Slevogtfelsen
In the evening, the clouds opened up for a spectacular sunset. Just before the sun set in the west, the last rays of the sun illuminated the lower cloud base and set it on fire. The aperture was set to 22 in order to create a significant aperture star.
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View from the Niesen towards south into the Kander valley.
The Niesen is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Swizerland. It overlooks Lake Thun, in the Bernese Oberland region, and forms the northen end of a ridge that stretches north from the Albristhorn and Mannliflue, separating the Simmental and Kandertal valleys.
Administratively, the summit is shared between the municipalities of Reichenbach im Kandertal, to the south-east, and Wimmis, to the west and north. Both municipalities are in the canton of Bern.
The summit of the mountain (2362 metres) can be reached easily by using the Niesenbahn funicular from Mülenen (near Reichenbach). The construction of the funicular was completed in 1910. Alongside the path of the Niesenbahn is the longest stairway in the world with 11,674 steps. It is open only once a year to the public for a stair run.
Because of its shape, the Niesen is often called the Swiss Pyramid.
[Source: Wikipedia]
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Focal length: 6.1mm
ISO Speed: 100
Processed with PS CC 2014
I took a trip to the Glen Coe end of Rannoch Moor the other day, it's been a while since I did that.
The cloud was pretty heavy, but there was a breeze to keep the midgies down so I didn't mind hanging about once I found my spot. (With no wind I'd probably have been drained of all my blood)
Eventually the clouds took on some colour, and I noticed that with the wind direction coming from behind the Buchaille, there was a huge gap in the cloud-base caused by the bulk and shape of the mountain.
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Simply incredible looking DOWN on the area of rotation. Lots of turbulence underneath, but unsure if there was any actual tornadic circulation. Look closely, that cloud base is perhaps 50-70 feet off the ground.
Benn Aighe, Torridon, Scotland.
Taken using my Sony A7r II
The weather had been disappointing for most of the afternoon but eventually the sun dropped from under the cloud base and the low light briefly illuminated the mountain side.
Sunrise ... At 6.10am it snuck under the cloud base and glowed. Looking towards the tip of Shelly beach from Manly beach.
A murky shot of Royal Navy Westland Wessex HU.5 XT487 from No.781 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm
Painted Green and White, they were used as 'Admiral's Barges' ferrying RN VIP's around and affectionately known as 'Green Parrots'.
Note also the extra external fuel tank and the helpful step rails on her starboard side for the VIP's
This one was caught during the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee passing Fort Gilkicker, South West of RNAS Lee-on-Solent
The weather that day was dire with a cloud base right down almost on the deck so only the helicopter formations made it in the Flypast
Naturally later that evening the weather cleared up and the fixed wing formations of Phantoms, Buccaneers and Gannets made it past - but long after we'd left!
Scanned print from an Ilford FP4 B&W film shot with a
Zenith E/Soligor 200 mm fixed length pre-set lens
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Been playing with Lightroom on the phone. The app can utilize the phone's camera.
It doesn't record the image into the phone's Photos app. It records into the Lr app. When there is a decent internet connection, the phone's Lr app uploads the photo to the Lr cloud.
I began editing in the phone's Lr app. The phone's screen is a bit small for editing, so then when home, I continued editing in the cloud based desktop Lr app.
From there, edit in Photoshop was chosen.
In Ps, it was saved as a tiff file, but saved to the Lightroom Classic app. It went back and forth from LrC to Ps a couple times as I kept seeing things I'd missed.
Finally it was exported to here from LrC, which is why that version of Lightroom shows in the exif here.
I'm enjoying shooting with the phone's Lr app and then playing around with the photos in both the cloud based Lr and then the classic Lr and Ps.
The day started with low cloud in the Langdale Valley. We checked the mountain weather service which said the cloud base was at 350m and the upper level at 750m. We headed up The Band and crossed onto climbers traverse below Bowfell. As we headed up The Great Slab the cloud started to drop over Bowfell Buttress giving the most rewarding views. (Previous image of my partner on Climbers Traverse). The Summit of Bowfell exceeded our expectations and gave us this view of the Scafell Massif. An excellent afternoon on the fells.
June 18, 2009 - Kearney Nebraska US
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It's June, Hot Humid... It's Prime Time Storm Season...
Though we only had a 10% chance of any type of development of storm that afternoon & evening. In fact all of the storms that day were to stay in western Nebraska and move to the north out of range of South Central Nebraska. That obviously was wrong!
I had just finished putting on the 2nd coat of stain on the new deck. Friends had stopped over to check on my progress. I had been so involved on completing the task at hand I didn't notice the lighting to the south of the city.
Let it be said I was unprepared and these 2 storms that rolled though that evening were unexpected. It was the reason I was finishing the staining of the deck. Though I did have everything charged and ready to go just in case. Wrapped up what I could and covered the new patio as best I could which would be a waste of time due to it all blew away!
This is the 1st set of storms for that evening. I grabbed my camera & went out in front of the house. We watched this shelf cloud form just to the west of the city and come right over the top of the house & to the south.
Can I say priceless. The lightning that was illuminating the sky was building & firing off every few seconds. With the reflecting city lights, these really came out with great definition. When the base of the 1st storm came over, the lower cloud base was churnin. Some really cool scud formations under this storm.
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I'm not a fan of racking up my ISO,s to get a shot but sometimes needs must, the challenge that brings howether is quite a thing especially as your subject is five hours late and you are in a very dark location. I was going to give up and go home but something happened that stopped me in my tracks and get to work, the sky was completely covered in clouds adding to the problem of already being in a ridiculously dark place, five minutes before the ship came into view, a wide gap appeared in the cloud base exposing an incredible display of noctilucent clouds, a rare and stunning phenomenon, these are the highest clouds at around 200.000 ft and are literally sheet ice which being so high up absorb the light of the now long gone sun and bringing a bit of real daylight into your dark setting, normally a scene like this would allow you to capture the scene with slower shutter speeds at lower ISO's but here we had a moving ship and the only way to capture this rare moment was to accept quality sacrifices and work with around 1/40 at best, still, I mustn't grumble.