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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 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.
... 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!
Sometimes you've got to work with light pollution. I love the stark contrasting hand lit steel against the flat light polluted cloud cover.
Despite appearances, there is no post processing here apart from a water mark. Produced with in camera custom white balance to achieve the maximum contrast between the light polluted cloud base and the aqua hand lighting of the structure.
47.2 secs exposure at f8 ISO 400
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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
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.
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.
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
With this overcast, I knew there would be no fire sky sunset. Little did I expect these high based clouds would be unstable and produce showers that barely reached the ground. The air was dry enough to cause most of the virga to evaporate near the cloud base. This resulted in ragged mammatus clouds to form. Additionally, the evaporative cooling of the air resulted in winds increasing from 10 mph to 37 mph.
Nikon P950, iso 400, ƒ/4.5, 28 mm Focal Length (35mm format),
1/125s. Taken 15 minutes before sunset.
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What is virga?
Rain that evaporates before it reaches the ground due to very dry air above the surface and below cloud base.
As the rain evaporates, it cools the air. Since cool air is more dense than warm air, it sinks to the ground rapidly. Once it reaches the ground, the cool air spreads outward in all directions. Sometimes the only indication is dust being kicked up. This is called a dry microburst.
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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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A very powerful searchlight was quietly playing its light beam around on the nearby low cloud cover here tonight.
2024-01-14
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.
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)
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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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 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
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.
Airton, Yorkshire
Illumination of the cloud base heralds in a new morning across Yorkshire.
It could have been better, but I'll that what I'm given!
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.
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.
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 terríveis com chuva torrencial e nuvens baixas....
1225 Boeing C-17A Globemaster III United Emirates Air Force.
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.
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.
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.