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Islands in the Sky
Canyonlands National Park
Utah
From our autumn road trip this year. I love the layered landscape with the mesas of Canyonlands in the foreground, the Colorado River Gorge, Arches, and the snow-dusted La Sal Mountains in the background.
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Misty view across the Higashiyama mountains from Mount Hiei (比叡山), the home of Enryaku-ji temple, Kyoto.
A male Anhinga greets a new morning
Donnelley Wildlife area, SC, USA
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Looking northeast from the Big Hill lookout in Stawell, this view showed the sunlit morning fog revealing one layer of trees after another. It was an amazing contrast to the opposite side of the lookout where the fog over the town was cold and blue looking and still very much in the shade of Big Hill itself.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
A light at the end of the tunnel...
Hope there is one for all the world in these difficult times!
Keep safe and healthy, my Flickr friends!
For: #Macro Mondays
Week theme: #Layers
Layers of Colour.
Hope you will enjoy this photo.
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As we were driving through the green mountain landscapes of the North Bengal we stopped for a little while as we were amazed by the huge green mountains covered with mist ..
Can you spot the red motorcyclist?
Lilies and grasses create multicoloured layers with the water in Hillman Marsh near Leamington, Ontario Migrating birds return to this area in the spring each year. Do you see the distant hikers on the path that surrounds the marsh?
During sunset, a cloud flew in in an amazing shape (a bird, a dragon, and maybe an angel ...)
A little understanding of the physics of cloud formation underscores the complexity of the atmosphere and sheds light on why predicting weather for more than a few days is such a challenge.
Six types of clouds you can see and how they can help you understand the weather.
1) Cumulus clouds - On a sunny day, rays warm the earth, which heats the air located directly above it. The heated air rises upward due to convection and forms cumulus clouds. These “good weather” clouds are like cotton wool. If you look at the sky filled with cumulus clouds, you can see that they have a flat bottom, located at the same level for all clouds. At this altitude, air rising from ground level cools down to the dew point. It usually doesn't rain from cumulus clouds, which means the weather will be good.
2) Cumulonimbus clouds.
Small cumulus clouds do not rain, but if they grow and grow in height, it is a sign that heavy rain is coming soon. This often happens in summer when morning cumulus clouds turn into cumulonimbus during the day. Cumulonimbus clouds often have a flat top. Air convection occurs inside such a cloud, and it gradually cools until it reaches the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere. At this moment, it loses its buoyancy and can no longer rise higher. Instead, it spreads out to the sides, forming the characteristic anvil shape.
3) Cirrus clouds form in very high layers of the atmosphere. They are smoky because they are composed entirely of ice crystals falling in the atmosphere. When cirrus clouds are carried by winds moving at different speeds, they take on a characteristic curved shape. And only at very high altitudes or at high latitudes, cirrus clouds give out rain that reaches the ground.
4) Stratus Clouds - A low-lying, continuous cloud sheet that covers the sky. Stratus clouds are formed by slowly rising air or gentle winds that cover the cold land or sea surface with moist air. Stratus clouds are thin, therefore, despite the gloomy picture, it is unlikely to rain from them, a little drizzle at most. Stratus clouds are identical to fog, so if you've ever walked in a mountainous area on a foggy day, you've been inside a cloud.
5) Lenticular clouds. Smooth and lenticular lenticular clouds form when air is blown up and over a mountain range, and as it travels over a mountain, the air descends to its previous level. At this time, it heats up and the cloud evaporates. But it can slip further, as a result of which the air rises again and forms another lenticular cloud. This can result in a chain of clouds extending far beyond the mountain range. The interaction of wind with mountains and other surface features is one of the many details that must be taken into account in computer simulations to obtain accurate weather predictions.
6) Kelvin - Helmholtz like a breaking ocean wave. When air masses at different heights move horizontally at different speeds, their state becomes unstable. The boundary between the air masses begins to ripple and form large waves, such clouds are quite rare.
The photo was taken in the city of Konakovo. Russia. On the banks of the Volga River.
A quickly captured image from just up the road, taken just as the sun was setting, with the fields shrouded with the incoming mist
HMM- the Macro Mondays’ group’s theme for tomorrow, 1/18, is ribbons. And this week I decided to be predictable and go with blue and white... giggling.... still having fun playing with the clip-on macro lens 💙.. this is *very* close in
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Many viewers have commented that The Guardian Building (originally The Union Trust Company Building) reminded them of a church.
This picture shows approximately half of the bank lobby on the main floor. Imagine the original bank building with 60-90 bank teller cages lining the entire length of both sides of this "nave". The ceiling was composed of a 3/4 inch (1.9cm) of horsehair and coated with a layer of plaster cement. Then, a canvas layer was applied, and painted with designs reminiscent of the patterns of Navajo rugs. This was a sound-deadening system.
The "altar piece" ( I suppose) was the three-story mural of the map of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Highlighted were the major Michigan moneymakers of the1890s to 1920s: mining, manufacturing, lumber, fishing, commerce, and agriculture. It was completed in 1929, unfortunately the year of the beginning of "The Great Depression".
This superbly decorated Art-Deco bank building was nicknamed "The Cathedral of Finance." So, if the earlier pictures reminded you of a church (reprised in the first comment below) --you were very observant : -)