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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.
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.
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]
Canon PowerShot G15
Aperture: f/5
Exposure time: 1/640s
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.
Canon Eos 5D mk ii, 17-40L, hi-tech grad
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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.
There are moments in chasing that I truly can't believe that I captured. This was one of those moments. I remember growing up, seeing images as dramatic as these but never could I imagine I'd have a staple like that one day.
I captured this dramatic image of the debris raining down on me from the Lincoln, Nebraska tornado as it approached i80. My position to the storm and the sunlight illuminated the tall tornado a ghostly white, while it chucked chunks of red earth into the cloud base from the shear violence of the winds. This same moment was captured via my GoPro mounted to the roof of my car. I was going to upload a full length video with this included. But, this moment I really feel warrants its own spotlight. Enjoy!
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.
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.
This tornado took a few different forms in it's lifetime. This was the epic dust monster phase just before it roped out and vanished!
A tornado beneath the ominous dark cloud base of a low precipitation (LP) supercell churns up a massive dust cloud as it crosses rural farmland in the plains of eastern New Mexico. This particular tornado, rated an EF-1, occurred near the small town of Floyd in May 2025. The tornado traveled over 5 miles in 17 minutes, leaving behind a trail of mangled utility poles. Fortunately no significant structures were in its path, limiting the amount of damage that resulted. Every summer severe thunderstorms like this one spawn hundreds of tornadoes across the Great Plains.
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Another oldie from October 2012 and the obvious shot of the fence on Mam Tor but when the light is good……..! Sometimes there’s a reason an obvious shot is obvious! 😉
The sky is completely covered by a grey layer of cloud with some lighter parts, which is common with Stratocumulus stratiformis. The layer is thick enough that the Sun would not be visible, hence it is of the variety opacus. The cloud base exhibits undulations, indicating an additional variety: undulatus.
Video frame grab from my tripoded camcorder, I was running to the car to retrieve my GoPro when this took place. This stage lasted no more than 15 seconds after the funnel became fully condensed, as the cloud base rapidly lowered/expanded while the tornado vortex re-organized into a violent (EF4) wedge.
Note the "ghost train" inflow jet off to the left (indicated by the rising dust above the trees) as well as the murky dust cloud behind it which conceals the weakening, but still ongoing EF3 tornado which had formed just northeast of Ottumwa and passed near Farson, Hedrick and Martinsburg.
I submitted this frame grab (with slightly different horizon leveling/contrast adjustment) to the Quad Cities National Weather Service office, it appears on their event write-up for this outbreak
www.weather.gov/dvn/summary_03312023
as well as on the Wikipedia page for the event:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_March_31_%E2%80...
A very misleading weather forecast but what a day it has turned out to be! With that low cloud base both the temperature and humidity were very high. The surf was fierce as can be seen.
I did not see any surfers hooked by the anglers and not too many surfers caught their waves.
Angling seems to me to be all about contemplation whilst surfing is all about participation and anticipation.
Blease Fell Panorama.
One from the archives.
A view looking down St-Johns-In-The-Vale from Blease Fell.
Clough Head and the Helvellyn range are seen under the low cloud base.
Thirlmere is seen to the centre of the image, whilst sunlight illuminates Bleaberry Fell. The prominent small body of water is Tewet Tarn.
Introduction
English Christian Movie "Deadly Ignorance" | Who Should We Listen to in Welcoming the Lord's Return
Zheng Mu'en is a co-worker at a Chinese Christian church in the US, has believed in the Lord for many years, and passionately works and expends for the Lord. One day, his aunt testifies to him that the Lord Jesus has returned to express the truth and do the work of judging and purifying man in the last days, news which greatly excites him. After reading Almighty God's word and watching the movies and videos of The Church of Almighty God, Zheng Mu'en's heart verifies that Almighty God's words are the truth, and that Almighty God might very well be the return of the Lord Jesus, so he begins investigating the work of God in the last days with his brothers and sisters. But when Pastor Ma, the leader of his church, discovers this, he tries time and again to intervene and stop Zheng Mu'en. He shows Zheng Mu'en a CCP government propaganda video that slanders and condemns Eastern Lightning in an attempt to make Zheng Mu'en abandon his investigation of the true way, and this video leaves him very confused: He can obviously see that Almighty God's word are the truth and the voice of God, so why do the pastors and elders of the religious world condemn Almighty God? They not only themselves refuse to seek or investigate, they try to stop others from accepting the true way. Why is this? … Zheng Mu'en fears being deceived and taking the wrong path, but also fears losing his chance to be raptured. In the midst of his conflict and confusion, Pastor Ma presents even more negative propaganda from the CCP and the religious world, producing many more doubts in Zheng Mu'en's heart. He decides to listen to Pastor Ma and give up his investigation of the true way. Later, after hearing testimony and fellowship from witnesses of The Church of Almighty God, Zheng Mu'en understands that in investigating the true way, the most fundamental principle is determining whether a way has the truth and whether what it expresses is the voice of God. Anyone that can express much of the truth must be the appearance of Christ, because no member of corrupt mankind could ever express the truth. This is an indisputable fact. If one does not focus on hearing the voice of God as they investigate the true way, and instead awaits the descent of the Lord Jesus on white clouds based on their imaginings, they will never be able to welcome the appearance of God. Zheng Mu'en finally understands the mystery of the wise virgins hearing God's voice spoken of by the Lord Jesus, decides to no longer believe the lies and absurd theories of the CCP government and the pastors and elders of the religious world, and escapes the constraints and bondage of his religious pastor. Zheng Mu'en experiences deeply the difficulty of investigating the true way. Without discernment or seeking the truth, there is no way to hear the voice of God or be raptured before God's throne. Instead, one can only be deceived and controlled by Satan and die in Satan's net, which entirely fulfills the words in the Bible, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hos 4:6). "Fools die for want of wisdom" (Pro 10:21).
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On Rabbit Pass between the Wilkin and East Matukituki Valleys NZ. We chose to camp on the pass to enjoy the amazing sunset and views from up there. It was worth it even though we had to wait until late morning for the cloud base to lift and provide visibility for the descent into the East Matukituki.
My first photograph in almost a month was just a short visit to Helsby station as although it was forecast a sunny morning the early morning cloud refused to break up fully.
Thankfully though as Saphos trains S&C Fellsman approached Helsby station it was bright.
With a decent amount of grey clag which was determined to mingle with the rather grey cloud base 34046 “Braunton” came through dead on time.
Out of view at the rear of the train was class 47 D1944.
Taken on 15th June 2022.
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Looking down from the top of the Brocken to the curve as the train still has a little while to go before it reaches the summit. At this point we were above the cloud base, totally amazing. After this photo with my spikes on I walked down to the track and into the trees down the line. The snow up to my knees in parts.
The Plancius slowly sails by as we head south, still just above 80 degrees north and another weather change on the way! The sun could be seen below the cloud base in the distance and an etherial mist started to appear, we did not know it but the best landscapes were still to come!
From Hartsop above How looking towards the Pennines. If you look at the top left you can make out the Scottish uplands rising above the UK wide cloud base. It's a fact that most UK airports had ground flights all week. This weather was something special and I was lucky enough to catch it.
See my album Christmas Eve 2006.
I don't want to hear,
I don't want to know
what nobody knows,
on another plain
another level
another world for all it's sincerity
out of reach
out to teach
for want of the other side
and all it may preach
let life be still
if it will
for your inner will
be still
free it all
if you care at all...
and I think you do
I believe I do
I see we all do
as we come and go
returning here
leaving there
following everywhere
one and all
within this world
we travel
coming and going
let all the nice people pass through
for nobody ever stops
to stop,
a momentary ticking thought of time...
anglia24
in the clutches of June 4, 2008
Walking along the Panorama near Llangollen. Low cloud from the valley emerged over the horizon and with the low angle of the sun ,backlit the lone walker as he approached the single tree.
The large tornado funnel is under the rotating cloud base at the lower left. Video: youtu.be/EsiMaGcRzHQ
When I looked over to Pen Yr Ole Wen, this one little area really caught my attention. It was how the cloud base was just being caught in the ridges of the top and they seemed to linger there as the cloud passed on by. What finished the photo was a little touch of an angry sky.
Canon EOS 6D + 24-105 F/4 @80mm
ISO 100
F/10
Exsposure Time - 1/10 of a second
The only Dragonfly that i saw all day and then only for a few seconds. The weather was very windy and a closed cloud base.
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Waking with sore legs, my mood was lifted as I realised I was in the mountain Inn at Claunie and not in my one man tent. A leisurely start and a full Scottish Breakfast soon got us going after our long day the day before.
The forecast wasn’t looking good with Gale force winds for the summits and a weather front due to hit by midday! So we decided on a nice wee leg stretch up the Munro Carn Ghluasaid. Only a couple of kilometres from the car park, this was the ideal target to bag before the storm hit Glen Shiel!
As we drove the short distance to the start of the walk we could see the clouds were moving quickly over the tops, however they were OVER the tops which was a good sign , unlike the previous day!!.
An excellent stalkers path zig zagged its way up the mountain and before we knew it we were on the ridge leading to the broad summit plateaux. The cloud base was still above the summits and the views were magnificent, even in the wind that was trying its best to blow us over!! To be honest this felt more like a shoulder of Sgurr nan Conbhairean than a summit in itself!! Anyway it was good to see a view as when I did the round of three many moons ago it was in wet driech conditions with views of nothing!!
A few summit selfies and we about turned and set off back to the car before the rain came. For once – and unexpectedly – our timing was perfect as the heavens opened about ten minutes after we reached the car. Another fine outing
During my week in the Jura, I was incredibly lucky to have just one day where the cloud base came down to meet us! This made the day grey and damp, but otherwise ok! Not a day for insect hunting, so I decided to explore the 'Cascades du Hérisson', a series of 7 waterfalls following the Hérisson (Hedgehog!) river down the gorge.
This is the first, at the top where I started. (It's 7.5 km return with an ascent / descent of 255 m). The downside to the dampness was that the rocks were VERY slippery in places making it a bit hairy at times! Lol! But it was worth it! There'll be many more pics from this walk to come! ;-)
I have no idea what mountain this is. I took a drive out to the Lochcarron area and found the cloud base to be too low and not enough water in the river for the shot I wanted.
I took one photo at a loch, and on the drive home the clouds broke enough to make me pull over and get the long lens and a grad filter out.
This is my first photo in a good while now, hopefully that's me back in the saddle again!
Early Sunday morning.... after a few days of wandering the eastern sierra's.... a small black car pulled to the side of the road along the 395 highway in Lee Vining Ca, just before the familiar 120 turnoff to South Tufa. A single shadowy figure strolled thru the moonlit darkness with purpose, carrying his light recording instrumentation like some sort of crazy scientist. He obviously came to capture the moon set as it slowly but surely began to inch it's way down to the cloud base hovering over the eastern sierra ridge. The storm that just recently tore thru the mid west and all across the united states this week was just now reaching this shack, his shack, down from the arctic... sprinkling ice crystals across the mountain tops and down onto the Lee Vining valley. Like two old friends, not a word is spoken. In the distance a small light in his car can be seen, if you look close you might see someone putting make-up on :), it's a strange day indeed. As the hours passed and the moon sunk below the cloud base, the flash light paint brush slowly lost it's magic power and light from the sun behind this view quietly illuminated this moment. Drizzles came and went and for hours he waited with his loving companion. Documenting the moment precisely at givin intervals.... a snap here and a snap there should do. As he lay perched with his wide angle directly in front of this beautiful shack somewhere lost inside the shrubbery stalks... quietly composing and totally present.
(3 Hours have now passed)
Earthshaker: "Mizzy, I'm ready to go."
Mizzy: "Okay babe, you ready?"
(pause, he looks around once again, quietly contemplating whether he made the right choice or not, hmmmm... his eyes fixated on the clouds and sun directly behind him in the direction of South Tufa and the Mono Lake Basin... a slight smile crosses his face.)
Mizzy: "... just one minute Babe, I'm waitin to see whats gonna happen when the sun shines thru those clouds behind us."
(quietly and with purpose he dives back into the world of his viewfinder...as the forground begins to lighten from direct sun rays who, after hours of trying, have finally reached this exact place and time.)
Earthshaker: "Babe! BABE!" LOOK! A RAINBOW"
(from his quiet and controlled composure.... he looks up into the sky, grinning as usual, he moves quickly like drunky the clown, or perhaps like a ninja in his first years of training, clumsily kicking and fumbling his way backward over the brush until the beauty of the full arched rainbow, which lasted all but 2 or 3 minutes was in his full frame. Enough time precisely for about 7 snaps... each a bit less brilliant as the absolute first snap. And then it was gone.)
Mizzy: "Ok, Babe. I'm ready to go.
I still find it hard to comprehend the mixed content in this image. My dutch hiking pal Rob and I had just turned around about 150 feet short of the summit of Mount Teide. That would put our altitude at marginally above 12,000 feet.
Rob is seen cautiously making progress down the ice encrusted lava, whilst central to the view is the top of the Mount Teide gondola. Beyond that, bare of snow and ice due to the baking winter sun is an expanse of high larva field and then further back a significant cloud base can be seen making its way towards us.
Those who know the high mountains will understand that the combination of the severe ice and encroaching cloud were plenty enough reason for Rob and I to terminate out ascent.
Image taken 04.03.2018.