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With the rising sun attempting to break through the cloud base 66523 has got 4M32 Felixstowe to Birch Coppice rolling again after its run round at Duddeston Junction whilst the crew of 66726 Sheffield Wednesday stretch their legs prior to running into RMC with 6G51 from Hindlow.
Reaching cloud-base over the back of the Bin of Cullen - lower right - looking out over the Moray coast. From left to right, the coastal villages are Buckie, Findochty, Portknockie, and Cullen. Across the Moray Firth, there's a wee bit of Sutherland, or maybe Caithness, to be seen on the horizon.
For the meteorologists, the prevailing wind has to ride over the billowing cumulous cloud, causing a hint of a lenticular cloud to form; they're more often and easily seen on their own when strong winds have blown across the mountains. Also, there's a hint of a spectre at the bottom-right of the frame, as I was flying through the wispy edges of another cloud here.
Taken with a 400mm lens. The scene is about 2 kms away and is a small crop of the whole frame. Just goes to show that landscapers don't always have to use a wide angle!!
The glow was one of those atmospheric quirks that occurred because of a very small window in a low cloud base that distorted the strong sunlight coming from just above the cloud base. A once in a lifetime opportunity... if you happended to have a 100 - 400mm lens on you at the time!!
Great forest and loch walk today (keeping low because of rain and low cloud base) around Loch Ard.. 7.68 miles so was not too 'ard'!
Cappuccinos and pastries after down at Callander.. 😁
I parked up and the skies were fairly clear, I could certainly see the mountain tops and their lovely winter coat. Rushed up the corpse road and in the twenty mins it took, the conditions had changed considerably for the worse. So after this disappointing start on the corpse road and a cloud base stuck at 700m, I headed over to Rough Crag, surely the cloud would lift by the time I got there. But there was no reward for my efforts of reaching the top of rough crag and very little point heading any higher into the clag, So a slippy slide down to Blea Water and back along the very soggy path to the car. I think my knee has just about forgiven me now. In this view was the briefest of time the sun poke its head through. Mountains in view (in theory) Far right High Street, center right, Mardale ill Bell, centre left, Harter Fell and far left , Branstree.
As my hangglider friends say, 'There's no place like Cloud Base'. Even if that means a lot of fog here in Chicago!
Taken 1 minute after sunrise. Small ridge blocks actual sun's visibility by about 3 minutes from official sunrise. These orange colors were captured at the base of the lowest layered cloud base.
Snow is from a blizzard 9 days ago.
Canada's far north is a land of drama etched into rock. I was on my way up to a ridge on Mt Frank Rae in the hope of epic views of the sharp peaks surrounding me, quietly bemoaning the low cloud base obscuring the tops of the mountains -- but then I saw this beam of light break through to a half hidden valley. The Rolling Stones said it so well: you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need.
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I chose this format because I wanted to exclude surrounding buildings and focus on the interaction between the top of the tower and the clouds. Stratus clouds are essentially the same thing as fog, except the cloud base lies a few hundred meters above ground level.
Canon 6d
16-35 2.8L II at 35
f/8, ISO 100
1/320
Taken late afternoon on 20 May 2020. The ragged cloud base resembles a whale's mouth in severe thunderstorms without high precipitation.
Bear's cage - (tornado chaser slang) The precipitation that wraps around a mesocyclone, possibly hiding a tornado on the ground.
Whilst walking in the dales last weekend, the weather got me thinking. The clouds were very low and there was this wonderful eerie atmosphere, as the mist slowly undulating down Wharfedale.
This tree caught my eye, as the cloud base kept dipping down and stroking its highest branches. I’d been past this spot many times, but the mist had re-framed my perspective, helped me ‘see more’. The conditions had not only physically framed a new perspective but they had helped me emotionally connect with a familiar place in a different way.
The calm feelings I had, were paradoxically warm and optimistic considering the hostile conditions. But its only now that I select and edit this image that i truly recognise this. In reflection i did feel calm when there, but I didn’t explore the reasons, I didn’t question what it was that inspired them.
Yes I was inspired by the photographic conditions, but it was more than that. I truly felt like I should be there (sorry if I'm sounding like an old hippy). I wonder if the new perspective created by the unusual weather was the very reason I felt optimistic. It was indeed a break from the norm and the new perspective on familiar ground was refreshing. What made it special to me was that, I managed to find such positive optimistic feelings from what others would not.
This in itself is reward enough, but I wondered what other simple experiences that I took for granted could be explored and turned into simple pleasures.
Here is an (edited) list I began in the café on that day, that I fully intend to explore further. Some are more common than others and some I haven’t the bottle to share with you guys, fearing being taken away in a white coat (o:
Coming in from the cold,
The first five seconds of a new bath,
Clean sheets,
Smell of spring air,
A massive sneeze,
Waking up in the middle o the night, knowing that you have several hours left to sleep,
The smell of fresh coffee/bread,
A single bird song,
Sound of crashing waves,
Humbling feeling whilst looking at mountains,
Walking on a deserted beach at dawn / dusk,
Swimming with eyes closed,
Dry sand through fingers,
Sea spray on face,
Warm sun on face,
Catching a big wave,
The feeling of exhaustion from exercise,
The sound of the glugs from a wine bottle,
The smell of a log fire.
Daek, wet, miserable day, did not go out.
2 shots of a Grey Plover on the mudflats yesterday in the sunrise light & a short video of the Pinkfeet geese flying over very high in the clear sky. With a low cloud base they would have been much lower
Grey, grey, grey, flat light, but for once the cloud base is a little higher and it isn't raining yet. Time to get up high on the hill and exercise the limbs.
Olympus OM1, Kodachrome 64, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light pad using a 12mm extension tube. Tethered capture and development in Lightroom.
Out chasing storms in northeast Colorado and saw some amazing crawlers that looked like they were coming off of a tower going up into the sky. During the dissipation of a severe thunderstorm, many discharges of lightning that never appear to make it to the ground will appear to cling to the base of a cloud. Looking up at the cloud base, an anvil crawler will look like fingers of lightning underneath the clouds.
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Nuestra Señora de la Paloma / Our Lady of the Dove
Mexican
19th Century
H: 45.65 cm
The Virgin,dressed in a metallic thread robes, stands on a gold gilded orb supported by a silvered metalwork cloud base with silver horned of crescent moon intact. The whole ensemble stands on a rectangular wooden plinth base with a silver repousse facing.
MOST INTERESTING FEATURE: May have been an image of the Virgin and Child but the image of the child Jesus may have been lost over time. The silver nimbus with the image of the Holy Spirit is probably a replacement.
Provenance: Ex-collection John Noble.
First hike of the year, at last and is probably already contender to hold the title of most intense conditions to shoot 2023.
I've seen Ladybower with quite the mood on before, but in a very textural deep greys and dramatic clouds way. This is more the kind of shot I'd hope to get in autumn, but that didn't quite work out for me and it's definitely the atmosphere I've been chasing here or a wee while.
The cloud base was low and as serene as the photograph looks, the wind was absolutely howling at gale force, which led to me camping out on this spot for a good amount of time until I got the right density of fog/cloud. I love photography like this, when you have to capture a fleeting moment to get the magic that you're after and after today I can tell you; I am crap at estimating the two second delay for my shutter.
Not sure if anything is gonna match this for me any time soon...
As winter arrives the pond slowly starts freezing over. The rising mornig sun slowly starts to dissipate the low hanging cloud base that had covered the scene earlier creating an almost surreal light.
A very powerful searchlight was quietly playing its light beam around on the nearby low cloud cover here tonight.
2024-01-14
some great atmospheric conditions a few mornings ago on oxen fell in the lake district. the low cloud base really did transform the landscape and changed every few minutes.
I mentioned in one of yesterday's posts that we had taken a coastal road on the Sleat peninsular. We had hoped to use Dunscaith Castle ruins at Tokavaig as a foreground with the Cuillin as an imposing backdrop. However, as you can see in this image, the cloud base was far too low and we were forced down onto the stony beach where a high tide had deposited this brightly coloured fishing net into an otherwise fairly drab scene.
Light breaking through the cloud base over Vestmannaeyjar on Iceland's southern coast.
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USAF F-15E Strike Eagle flown by a 492d FS Flight commander who managed to creep under a very low cloud base on a warm, humid day in the "Mach Loop"
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I love to be an immersive photographer. Near to far is my favorite way to shoot usually and if not I really want a strong pathway through the scene. Lately, I've been favoring shots that are of a more straightforward fashion. Perhaps they tend to be the least complicated in post. Either way, this was a walkaway shot. A shot taken after exhausting every other "immersive" composition option, I framed the most straightforward shot because why not and I'm in love with it! This was the last scene shot on my 14 day Oregon trip with a fellow photographer buddy Scott Smorra (do check out his work). It was an incredibly misty morning and the light was just right with the sun rising above, faded by the low cloud base. The moisture paired with New Growth on almost everything gave a neon appearance to the tips of the forest. Magical scene to say the least.
This is the last photo scene I shot on my 14-day jaunt around the southern Oregon coast, Redwoods, and the central Cascades. I was blown away of the marvelous splendor Oregon had to offer and considering I visited what many photographers would claim to be the least favorable of areas, I cannot wait to see what awaits next time I go.
For me personally, this was the most successful trip I've made. At least two dozen different scenes from the waves breaking on sea stacks in Bandon, to fog and intense light rays in the Del Norte Redwoods. Raging water flows in the Umpqua and Deschutes National Forest and even an intimate couple of sessions at Crater Lake National Park. Over 5000 images were taken, backed up to a brand spanking new MacBook Pro just to find it unresponsive, not charging, not whirling, and acting more like a paperweight than a backup and editing solution. My worst fear would be that it had been fried somehow.
And it was.
OnTrack Data Recovery has taken it apart. Their initial regards were not positive in the least. Last I heard they are trying to repower and bypass systems to get to the hard drive. Fingers crossed!
This is Sahalie Falls from a distance back. You can see the intense mist of the actual falls in the very distance.
Green Gable, Lake District, UK
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I don't have much luck with the light with my Autumn holidays. No direct light here. But at least this day it wasn't raining and the cloud base wasn't too low. I quite like this though and the conditions are certainly better than my visit in spring when it was hazy and cloudless.
Looking from Green Gable Crag over towards Buttermere and Crummock on the right. It was difficult to stay upright in the wind. I left the camera in the bag when I got to great Gable. It wasn't worth stocking around for sunset unfortunately.
Was determined to find and capture some images from a field of sunflowers after failing miserably last year. Drove for miles & miles in search of these fields, light wasn't good at all although there was some definition in the low cloud base.
They are not quite at there best yet with a lot of new heads just starting to open
This tornado rapidly grew in size. Dust and debris now reaching all the way up to the wall cloud base.
This started out as me trying to come up with an idea for the Eurobricks 25 Years of Adventure competition, I was imagining the top of a huge Mesoamerican pyramid emerging from the cloud canopy but it was quickly obvious I didn't have enough bricks to build a 48 x48 square so I had to settle for an update of 5906: Ruler of the Jungle.
I decided to change the original blue to teal, which caused it to look like a Monkie Kid set, but I carried on anyway.
It also looks quite like a build I did in 2015.
Instructions (without cloud base) here
Virga are often referred to as 'jellyfish clouds' based on their puffy-top appearance with streaky stingers hanging below. Apart from jellyfish though, they are often spotted looking like various objects in the sky.
Little more than ten minutes earlier, Harringworth Viaduct had been bathed in glorious winter sunshine, but everyone overlooking this scene knew that we would not be getting Vintage Trains 'Corby Luncheon Shuttle' in such superb light. In fact, a small gap in the cloud base did materialise, sufficient to add a bit of glint onto the train, hauled by No. 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' with No. 7029 'Clun Castle' at the rear, as it made its way across the viaduct. It was an add-on working to an earlier train from Tyseley Steam Trust to Melton Mowbray, this being the 1356 Melton Mowbray - Corby - Melton Mowbray shuttle that had earlier been worked by No. 7029 on the outward leg. In the background is Harringworth village, with the spire of St John the Baptist parish church prominent. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
While spending the day spotting at RAF Valley, I was watching an A400M doing circuits at Chester and had been doing doing them for quite a while. Deciding that we would pack it in for the day, we returned to the holiday cottage I decided to look at the flight tracker again, only to find the Atlas had stopped doing circuits at Chester and was lining up to do circuits at Valley!
Seems to be something about RAF Valley visitor-wise; you turn up and you're either too late or nothing appears, or here the aircraft wait for you to leave and then appear!
ZM412 is seen here lining up for one of three approach and go's to Runway 19 on 29/08/2019. The cloud base was very low so I was lucky to get a shot here.
I retain a soft-spot for the Hercules, having had the good fortune to fly in one as an Air Cadet in the 90s. It’s a spectacular example of a machine that has been almost perfect in its various roles for decades in various air forces and some civilian uses.
It was pleasing to see one running up on the apron at Christchurch as we taxied in earlier. An RAAF one flew over our house last week, but it was above the cloud base. First time in years I have seen operational versions. The RAAF one then did low passes along the coast of the Mornington Peninsula before returning to New South Wales. Not sure where this machine departed too, as I was busy getting to my hotel.
I mostly grabbed this shot for Joshua. Fiddling with it in Lightroom, I felt the colour tone resulting from shooting through the aeroplane window resembled a film shot. The over-exposed strip (from a reflection or such like on the aeroplane window) resembled a light leak too, further prompting me to add some grain to further the effect, so I have decided to keep it.
While having dinner, I the sky full of scattered clouds, based on experience, a hot day will usually have a nice sunset.
So I ate my dinner in a rush and went to the rooftop to find this scene in front of me.
Took this shot with my phone.
I have yet to see the shots in my Canon camera.
This started out as me trying to come up with an idea for the Eurobricks 25 Years of Adventure competition, I was imagining the top of a huge Mesoamerican pyramid emerging from the cloud canopy but it was quickly obvious I didn't have enough bricks to build a 48 x48 square so I had to settle for an update of 5906: Ruler of the Jungle.
I decided to change the original blue to teal, which caused it to look like a Monkie Kid set, but I carried on anyway.
It also looks quite like a build I did in 2015.
Instructions (without cloud base) here
170636 zips by Lea Marston working 1V04 Nottingham to Cardiff Central some nice colour in the sky but the cloud base was already building.
The Sun setting through a gap in the clouds from Dale Head. Honister slate mine is seen on the flanks of Fleetwith Pike above the Honister Pass. Great Gable looms centre left, the cloud base high enough to reveal her summit. The Peaks of Esk Pike and Bowfell to the left. Scafell Pike and Scafell immersed in cloud as so often is the case. Kirk Fell bathed in sunlight on the right with Yewbarrow poking out from behind.
I took a friend up onto Kinder Scout for the first time today, ascending with a scramble up Crowden Clough onto the plateau, across to Swines Back through the Wool Packs and down Jacobs Ladder.
The weather was very much the same as Tuesday, if not a little clearer. My friend concurred that the low cloud base and murk added to otherworldly feeling of the wind weathered landscape.
I took the liberty of holding up our hike and catch-up to snap this photograph, the light permeating under the cloud base and silhouettes of Swines Back and South Head looking too good to miss.
I took a little while to find my foreground, but I finally settled on this moss-covered boulder that almost reflected the profile of the peaks on the horizon. This perhaps didn't come through so clearly in the final photo, I think it just about holds it together though.
LPPT. Under terrible meteorological conditions with torrential rain and low cloud base / Sob condições meteorológicas terríveis 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.
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.
For more information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
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.
When I say sky scraper I mean it in the true sense of the word. The 309 metre (1,014 ft) high Shard, the tallest building in London, really does look as if its tip is tearing a hole in the cloud base.
Despite being partially hidden from view it still towers above everything around it. I'm planning on going up it at some point to take advantage of the fantastic views it offers. As far as I'm aware it's a 'behind glass' experience and you cant actually shoot outside. Anyone know?
This shot was taken from Tower Bridge; it's a handy location to shoot the south bank of the River Thames even if the heavy traffic can make it vibrate somewhat. You just have to pick your moment especially if you're on the centre section.
Most of the buildings you can see, with the exception of the Shard and Guy's Hospital next to it, are part of prestigious More London Estates development. They include City Hall, (the bulbous shaped building far left) a sunken amphitheatre called The Scoop (neon blue area), office blocks, shops, restaurants, cafes, and a pedestrianised area containing open-air sculptures and water features. To the right of the shot is the light cruiser HMS Belfast and London Bridge.
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7 exposure, tripod mounted hdr +3 to -3. pp in adobe camera raw, photomatix, & photoshop with various topaz plugins. Nikon D700 with 24-70 f2.8, @ 31mm, f9, ISO 800, exposure 0.4 - 25 sec's.