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These were taken at midday today and they are the best "Mammatocumulus or Mammatus Clouds" i have seen for some years over Empingham in Rutland.
Scrolling through my archives, Im quite surprised by how many planes, birds and other winged things I have for the new group ! HWW folks ! www.flickr.com/groups/wing_wednesday/
when you look closely, you'll see some nice shapes in the clouds.
and with just a little bit imagination you'll see a ♥
-- in interestingness last 7 days on August 18th..
I'm pretty sure that the mountains are either the Rockies or Sierra Nevadas. The plane's window was dirty and there was lots of haze, and I'm glad to have been able to do some cleanup.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Many happy returns of the day Nancy!
Amazing clouds tonight over sunny Whittlesea at 1700 hrs. Now waiting for the storm to start. As I write this the storm has started thunder and lightning and all things frightening. its raining cats and dogs too.
It's hard enough just to leave my car
Some ways,
I believe she's just like me
We all do"
~ Starf**er
First picture I've taken in a month.. haven't been able to bond with the camera as much as I've wanted too this summer.
"Sono figlio del cammino, la carovana è la mia casa e la mia vita è la più sorprendente avventura".
- Amin Maaluf -
Haven't posted a lightning strike in what feels like AGES, which is probably far from the truth. Anyways, this was a towering strike that I cropped to fill the entire frame. The original capture had it a bit more to the left than I liked. When shooting lightning, sometimes you don't aim in the right spot and almost miss. So cropping is a fantastic way to recompose the image to get your bolt looking awesome.
In the realm of weather, a lightning strike that hits the surface of the earth is technically called "Cloud to Ground" or CG. These are the kind I of course go for. There are very, very rare occasions where "In Cloud" lightning creates an awesome image.
I have one of those rare ones that I'll post at a later day. One of my favorites.