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As the diffuse eruption cloud of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano continued its journey across the UK, a clear sky gave the sun another opportunity to illuminate the stratosphere in a glorious light show. Volcanic dust was found on cars in Sheffield and Yorkshire was treated to scenes like this magenta-hued sunset over Ilkley Moor. The BBC reported that the airlines lose about £130,000,000 a day as a result of such events. The UK government's scientific research body NERC flew a series of propeller-driven planes loaded with instruments to analyse the composition of the ash and monitor the situation. England's skies finally re-opened with a large flight backlog and disruption went on for some time after.
This image is composed of three exposures merged together in an HDR process.
Cloud Gate is a highly polished reflective steel sculpture that is inspired by liquid mercury. The curved, mirror-like surface of the sculpture provides striking reflections of visitors, the city skyline (particularly the historic Michigan Avenue "Streetwall") and the sky.
The streaks at the top of the frame are raindrops falling toward me, which were lit up by nearby stage lights at the zoo. For the astronomers in the audience, this illustrates why meteor showers appear to radiate from a point in the sky: they are approaching from a far distance, the vanishing point, and depending on various motions, that point is in a different place in the sky. Drivers in snow can see the same thing.
Another Caernarfon sunset! That is one thing we do seem to get a nice lot of! I think because the almost daily rain seems to clear by sunset time (just!), and the remaining clouds give the perfect sunset effects!
As I was coming home from work, I saw the sun light up the clouds around the Cascades. I rushed in and grabbed my tripod, then took a few shots from the driveway with my 70-200 f4 lens.
101 Oil Studies, No. 10
Objective: Flat tone test; high thin clouds following "Moon and Morning Sky" photograph in my "Sky and Space" album.
Painted in 2 sessions: 02 Feb and 09 Feb 2024
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour: Cerulean blue, lamp black, titanium white. Mediums: Gamsol, Oleogel.
Ampersand Gessobord, 12.7 x 12.7 cm (5 x 5 inches)
Process: In this miniature study, the original wash was very light, so I tried painting the sky as negative spaces between the clouds, later adding additional gestural strokes of white in the clouds.
After Action Evaluation: Clouds are way heavier than in "Moon and Morning Sky" photo. Deeping the blue initially, then adding clouds in thin glazes seems to be the better approach.
The clouds were super-dramatic tonight. Or I guess I should say cloud. As in one massive cloud. So bizarre and wild.