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I forget where we were... I was chasing behind Marcus Gutierrez and Brandon Ivey, and I think it was day three. We were having a great time under this cloud base next to a train yard. There was so much motion on the outside column that we were sure something good would happen, but then it started blowing winds at us, which is the sign of a dying storm
The unusual cloud formation makes it look like Ben Nevis, at the cloud base, is experiencing a volcanic eruption.
Seen from Hart Crag pair of hikers can be seen in this view on the summit of Great Rigg. In the background, the mighty Scafell Pike punctures the cloud base.
I am just about at the end of my uploads from this hike. I do have many more but they are in most cases quite similar to ones I have already shared on Flickr.
I hope you are not too bored of bluebells yet - It's coming to a peak this week on Dartmoor with the recent very warm weather. I wanted to capture them in perhaps a more typical setting this year and popped down the other evening when the cloud base had dropped.
Showing the depth of the snow drifts as the loco runs round. However whats more interesting is the cloud bank in the background showing I am above the cloud base , something I will never forget
As true as possible to the conditions of the day
a deluge of emotion raining down the Tor
oblique, occasionally obscured, the mind at play
tricks of the Spring trading in it's warmth for
the changes we lavish with stats to get our way
now all forgotten, open to the Sanctus winds in store
following a fatherly lead progress really is made
undestroyed memories pass like high-speed windows
of the train that doesn't stop at my station frayed
for this is already the journey of never ending shadows
images of bygone fellows burrow the mind and invade
now up this timeless path to the frenzy of misted narrows
what cannot be true engages the senses out of wedlock
refined living and celebate myths rise ever-more steeper
the stories of others battles it's way into a souvenir woodblock
highlighted by stove-light to illuminate the diary keeper
visions past play before the Tor to this windswept flock
as if the rich strain of today's forebearance could possibly be any deeper
the howls and hoots of weathering beyond the graves
whistles past me like a snapshot of reanimate comfort
what joy it brings over these dark momentary waves
now there's no time for any time-sickness's discomfort
as time itself forever marches with no conscience of how it behaves
for such defined reasoning of this moment is left to the scale of Beaufort!
now it's done, the weather leaves no cadre unturned, so to speak
just the cacti touch of presage-driven rain into this speed camera record
of all we have done upon the humbling trail of ancestral antique
thus it becomes ever clearer, staggering up the hill of reverence restored
for every monument on the surface has inner revelations unique
and that's for us to decipher, for it's this elemental grounding we walk toward.
by anglia24 (in the steps of my forebears)
09h45: 05/06/2008
©2008anglia24
Taken 8 minutes before sunrise under a heavy overcast with Virga falling. Note the Virga as a rough cloud base lit by the rising sun. This Virga persisted through at least noon time.
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Bit of different scenery for this post, a place that I love but haven't visited much recently, Snowdonia, Afon lloer to be precise.
We'd headed down in the van for a long weekend late on Thursday night to make the most of our time there, the forecast wasn't looking great but we just fancied a nice weekend away so wasn't expecting too much.
On this particular day, we were due to climb Tryfan, however as the cloud base was so low we decided against it and thought it might be a good idea to make use of our National Trust membership instead. As we were heading to our chosen place, the clouds started to clear and a sunset was starting to look quite promising. The choice was either head to Llanddwyn Island, a place we'd both wanted to photograph at sunset for some time and face potentially perfectly clear skies or head back to the mountains and chance some stormy light. We decided on the latter and off we drove back towards Tryfan.
We had visited this spot a day earlier to scout the compositions, I struggled a little trying to compose a shot with the waterfalls and Tryfan in the distance, but I think it turned out ok in the end with a small shaft of light just creeping into the corner of the image.
As quickly as the sun disappeared, a slightly different situation unfolded as a S&R heli thundered through the sky right past us and proceeded to hover along the flanks of Tryfan. It turns out a father and daughter had gotten slightly off track and were stuck on the steep sides needed help to descend. It's a very real reminder of how dangerous the mountains can be and how amazing the Mountain Rescue/Search and Rescue teams are!
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Monsoon thunderstorms across Arizona frequently provide some of the most intense, colorful and beautiful lightning strikes imaginable. The arid climate and associated high cloud base allows for an unimpeded view of the lightning channels during these intense storms. In the above photograph, a cloud-to-ground stroke connects with an intracloud stroke, serving as a background to the University of Arizona campus dorms in Tucson.
Olympus OM-2S
Fuji Velvia ISO 50 color slide film
10-15 second exposure
Aperture unknown (like between f/5.6 - f/8)
This shot was taken in September 1999, one of my first professional-quality lightning photographs. It shot was featured fullpage in the University of Arizona Alumni Association quarterly (Seen here).
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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.
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!!
I captured this Hercules military transport aircraft passing over Lake Windermere and thought this almost silhouette shot departing into the distance against the thick white cloud base was very atmospheric.
... you just have to find it! After an afternoon in the cloud on Pike O Blisco the chance of a good sunset was looking slim. Glancing over Hardknott from Wrynose there was a slither of gold beneath the cloud base - always worth checking out. So glad we did when we stumbled upon this.
Beautiful golden rays falling on Eskdale and the old roman fort ruins.
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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.. 😁
As my hangglider friends say, 'There's no place like Cloud Base'. Even if that means a lot of fog here in Chicago!
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A shot from Day 1 in Torridon hiking up Beinn Damh at 903m. Unfortunately the cloud base was around 600m so we lost the views higher up. To the right the clouds are covering the summit of Beinn Alligin, one of Scotland's finest mountains.
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...
A very powerful searchlight was quietly playing its light beam around on the nearby low cloud cover here tonight.
2024-01-14
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.
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.
Seen in Explore.
Looking across the valley to Skirrid Fawr from the top of the Blorenge during an all too brief lifting of the cloud base. Abergavenny is bottom left.
(Blorenge, rhymes with orange)
New year, new location.
This isn't my first hike out this year, but the first time the camera has made it out of the bag for anything other than a record-shot and by that extension; my first proper post of 2026.
The Peak District is divided geologically into two distinct areas; Dark (or High) Peak which is comprised of river-deposited sandstones namely "mill stone grit" and White Peak which is carboniferous limestone deposited some 350 million in a tropical sea. I've spent very little time in White Peak, so Dovedale was very different experience to what I'm used to. The cloud base was low which added a great deal of mood and presented me with a rather muted, minimal scene to photograph but I liked the subtleties in the hues of the greens enough to set up this shot.
Definitely not an "in your face" start to my year of photography!
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"
For much of this hike I had been telling Mark that we would climb through the clouds. He wouldn't listen. I was proved correct when that moment eventually came whilst we made our final climb to the summit of Ben Lawers. A few seconds before this picture was taken we were engulfed in cloud but as is often the case we could see the vague image of the sun trying to make itself known. Then as if someone had removed a great blanket the cloud base dropped a little to reveal a series of sunlit islands poking through. We were lucky enough to be on one of those.
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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.
Found some old digital cameras at my parents yesterday. Six memory cards between them, all with images on from at least 15 years ago. Captured moments frozen in time, now liberated onto my laptop to be shared once again.
One tabletop photoshoot later we have an image for this weeks theme.
Made me think about the thousands of images I have taken over the years, some shared on here but many held in digital or cloud based prisons, rarely viewed as life moves on. I really need to get some of my photography printed so that they are more readily available for viewing. A coffee table book is a project that's been in the back of my mind for quite some time now........ maybe this is the year.
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.
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.
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.
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