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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!
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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.
We had some stunning optical effects visible on our way back from Limoges to Stanstead on 25th September 2017. This was the first time I'd ever seen optics reflected on the cloud base below; that was quite a special experience!
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.
June 18, 2009 - Kearney Nebraska US
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It's June, Hot Humid... It's Prime Time Storm Season...
Though we only had a 10% chance of any type of development of storm that afternoon & evening. In fact all of the storms that day were to stay in western Nebraska and move to the north out of range of South Central Nebraska. That obviously was wrong!
I had just finished putting on the 2nd coat of stain on the new deck. Friends had stopped over to check on my progress. I had been so involved on completing the task at hand I didn't notice the lighting to the south of the city.
Let it be said I was unprepared and these 2 storms that rolled though that evening were unexpected. It was the reason I was finishing the staining of the deck. Though I did have everything charged and ready to go just in case. Wrapped up what I could and covered the new patio as best I could which would be a waste of time due to it all blew away!
This is the 1st set of storms for that evening. I grabbed my camera & went out in front of the house. We watched this shelf cloud form just to the west of the city and come right over the top of the house & to the south.
Can I say priceless. The lightning that was illuminating the sky was building & firing off every few seconds. With the reflecting city lights, these really came out with great definition. When the base of the 1st storm came over, the lower cloud base was churnin. Some really cool scud formations under this storm.
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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
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! 😉
According to the English Heritage website: "Not many parish churches stand in ruins, and fewer still occupy sites associated with prehistoric rituals. Four thousand years separate the main late Neolithic earthwork at Knowlton and the Norman church that stands at its centre. The earthwork itself is just one part of a landscape which is one of the great Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial complexes in southern England.
The main earthwork at Knowlton is of a type known as a henge. There are nearly one hundred henges in Britain and Ireland, dating from about 3000 to 2000 BC. Although they are generally believed to have been ceremonial sites, it is likely that they fulfilled many functions, and may have changed their role through time.
Church Henge, as it is now known, has been protected from plough damage; the earthworks in the surrounding landscape have been less fortunate, but are still clearly visible in aerial photographs."
Taken on a day when the cloud base was only just above the church. Had hoped it would have been lower for a misty appearance.
Such a shame that a person or persons had climbed the ruins to the top of the tower to tie ribbons to some vegetation. Why do people carve graffiti on old monuments? The latest I saw was dated 2022!
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.
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.
A trip back to last winter for a sunrise shot, The sun just breaks through the cloud base to shine it`s light on me .
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Spider plant that is.
Taken with the camera that is part of the Lightroom mobile app on the iphone. The app shoots a DNG raw file and can be edited in Lr mobile or the Lr cloud based desktop app.
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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En vol amb l'Arcus M, D-KLIE (C4) ultima meravella en velers biplaça de Schempp Hirth. Un dels millors a nivell mundial.
Vista del actual buque insignia en biplazas de Shempp Hirth, el Arcus M, (D-KLIE) en vuelo, casi en base de nubes con turbulencia.
Flying cross country the Arcus M, D-KLIE (C4) almost at the clouds base, with light turbulence.
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!
Gliding north on the first full day of my week at Lac D'Annecy, I was soaring over peaks that, in hindsight, I don't know why I hadn't flown over before.
All that lies between me and the city which gives the lake it name is the ridge of Mont Baron and Mont Veyrier.
Despite the great sky, my flight was a simple return trip as far north along Mont Veyrier as I dared, for fear of entering airspace, before heading back to Talloires. Before I launched, the sky looked a little ominous, and as such I didn't prepare for a long or high flight, but once in the air I realised the error of my ways as I soared up to the low cloud base, fleeting in and out of the whispy edge of the clouds with endless forest below, and rocky crags above, looking other-worldy through the cloud.
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...
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in the clutches of June 4, 2008
Wooloondool Catchment Sunset in 'natural' texture....
I asked a friend to tell me about these unusual clouds; he obviously has time on his hands but it is very informative:
Cumulus-Nimbus. (abbreviation CB) - They are the thunder storm cloud. Their development requires 3 components;
1) Sufficient/adequate moisture
2) unstable air mass (due uneven/isolated heating (ground conduction resulting in convection)
3) a trigger to start the convection process, after which the Adiabatic Lapse Rate takes over (ie., ALR = uneven reduction in temperature of rising air pockets dependant on its moisture content thus effecting its relative density and subsequently creating a 'boiling' effect, hence the bulging cauliflower type appearance in the lower levels - same as ordinary Cumulus clouds in basic appearance apart from the 'Anvil' shaped top).
There are 2 main triggers; mountain range or, in our case, the coinciding of an alien air mass as experienced with the arrival of a cool change (ie., 'Cold Front').
The Anvil shape is characteristic of a CB. A graphic illustration of 'Wind Shear' with altitude gain (increase in wind speed with altitude gain).
The CB cloud must exceed 20,000 from base to top for it to be able to generate hail. The instability within such a cloud is sufficient to cause structural failure to all aircraft except smaller, stronger military aircraft. Prior to airborne radar being fitted to airline aircraft (about 1960 ~ 1970 ?) there were many 'unexplained' airliner losses due to this reason (Viscount over Botany Bay, Sydney was last large airliner lost in Australia due to this reason.
Stratus and Stratus-Cumulus. The remainder of the cloud is "Stratus" and "Stratus Cumulus" (S) (SC). You can see examples of both in the photo. The lower fragmented pieces are referred to as 'Scud' and are often as low as 500 ft above ground.
If the base of the strata-form cloud is between SL and 8,000 amsl then it is called Stratus Cumulus (SC). When the cloud base for this type of cloud is above 8,000 it begins to form slightly different visual characteristics and is called Alto Stratus (AS). There is usually no turbulence associated with Stratus cloud (absence of convection), however, the existence of such cloud can sometimes mask the presence, in the lower levels of developing CB's.
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Winter Sundays in March 1979 were very busy on the Settle - Carlisle line. There were the usual WCML diversions for annual engineering work and additional ECML diversions due to the collapse of the Penmanshiel tunnel.
An unidentified Class 40 is ready to pick up a pilotman at Blea Moor loops as there was single line working over Ribblehead. Semaphore signals, both water towers and both railway cottages are still standing. Ingleborough and Simon Fell are both lost above the cloud base. The natural scene persists but the man made scene has changed considerably during the intervening years.
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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.
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
Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130J-30 Hercules C.4 ZH877 "ASCOT103" seen just under the cloud base over the North East of England heading South bound.
05/05/21
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! ;-)
September 1, 2018 - I-80 Westbound by Gibbon Nebraska US
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After that last storm fizzled out. I had a short drive back to K-Town and what looked like a roll cloud from a distance turned out to be a shelf cloud without it being attached to another cloud base.
Technically this should have appeared to be rotating on a horizontal access but its definition would be a shelf cloud. Due to its formation. This time of years almost anything is possible cloud-wise in Nebraska.
I pulled off for a few minutes til this passed over. It would eventually become a severe thunderstorm as it went through Adams County and eastward. Storms were traveling fast at 45mph so I wasn't going to try and stay ahead of it and chase this cell.
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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!
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...
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.
A cold glimpse of Wellington and its harbour before the clouds took over this morning. Wrights Hill, Wellington, New Zealand. A stitched panorama.