" © All Rights Reserved - No Usage Allowed in Any Form Without the Written Consent of Sabine Simons ".

"When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills,

it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region,

earth being so intermixed with sky,

and gradually transformed into it."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Find more pictures at www.peterwhysall.com

Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/peter_whysall

and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PeterWhysallPhotography

Greece

Salacak, Istanbul

We were decending through the cloud layer, the setting sun fell behind the clouds but the reflection was still strong on the ocean so I snapped this shot.

It's actually sharp enough to make out details of Downtown Del Mar, California. (may need to view large)

View ^^^^L^^^^A^^^^R^^^^G^^^^E^^^^

Ogunquit, Maine

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” (Tagore).

Iridescent clouds are a beautiful phenomenon-but they're rarely seen and even less frequently photographed.

Iridescent clouds, known as "fire rainbows" or "rainbow clouds," occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere. And the recipe for these heavenly sights is actually pretty simple.

What happens is that the cumulus cloud, boiling upwards, pushes the air layers above it higher and higher. As the air gets pushed upwards, it expands and cools. And sometimes moisture in that air suddenly condenses into tiny droplets to form a cap cloud.

This "cap"—which scientists call a "pileus"—is the source of the brilliant spectacle.

The droplets in the cap cloud scatter sunlight to form the gorgeous colors.

I felt very lucky to have seen this. It's a very rare sight. California.

...on the last day of meteorological Summer

O centro do Rio de Janeiro

Hoje omito minhas palavras,

mas com uma vontade louca de gritar ao mundo...

Mataró (10/10/09)

En un tiempo bastaba clasificarlas en cuatro tipos: cirros,estratos,cúmulos y nimbos. Y bastaban para predecir el clima. Ahora se las agrupa por lo menos en cirros-estratos,altos-cúmulus, altos estratos,estratos-cúmulos, cirros-cúmulos,cúmulos-nimbos, y los pronósticos se han hecho muy inciertos. Parece que hasta las nubes se han complicado.

También me encontrarás/Links to where you can find me

fotonautica-javier.blogspot.com/

Juab County, UT.

Title : Cloud Cover

Stitched panorama

2015

Location: Eyre Peninsula

www.fluidr.com/photos/golden_asha

www.facebook.com/imagesbyannclarke

Ostersee near Seeshaupt, Bavaria, Germany

Older capture I just stumpled over while going through the archive.

EXPLORED

ok, not architecture. more clouds. some buildings in there, too, so i guess it's tangentially architectural.

mainly it's just a picture of some gigantic clouds bearing down on relatively tiny l.a.

more buildings to follow.

EXPLORED

Quick photo as heavy showers swepth through

濾鏡軟體後製 ( Filter software post - production )

Clouds over Maui following the hurricane

evening shot

Have a Beautiful Day . Thank You for Your Visit

Glencoe Lochan a tract of Forest North of Glencoe village with the small loch providing reflections of the clouds.

Thank you for all your comments and visits

© Ralph Stewart 2014

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

Hawaii Island

© Jay Fine 2014

Thanks for your visit and comments, I appreciate that very much!

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © all rights reserved.

Regards, Bram (BraCom)

My Homepage | Facebook

A lovely Saturday afternoon walk through the clouds. I love it out here when the weather is like this - it's like walking through a dream. Visibility was very low - only a dozen or so metres. It was a lovely cool change from the hot weather we've been having lately.