We have great sunsets on both banks of the Mersey and tend to ignore them - I liked the way we still had blue sky above the fire in this one...

Saw these on the trailing edge of a severe thunderstorm that came through the area. Deliberately didn't crop the foreground so as to give size perspective.

can u see it

Clouds over Liberty Station restaurant. This used to be an actual train station now it the best restaurant in Bedford Va. Inside is themed like an old train station. This is the station the my great uncle left out of leaving for duty in world war 2. He was one of the Bedford Boys killed on DDay. Bedford suffered more per capitia than any where in the nation. That is why we have the National DDay Memorial.

Rollei Retro 80s.

Rodinal (R09) 1-100 1 hour

Fuji GA645zi

Big sky over a corn field in Durango, Texas.

Do something creative every day | Part 33 | Mushroom Cloud

Thought of this one the other day and thought I'd see if I could pull it off. I think it came out alright. Nuclear bomb jokes are always hilarious, right?

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Rowdy thunderstorm clouds cause a major riot in the rural sky during a tornado watch near Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada.

A few interesting clouds over the last bit of sun at Jordan Lake State Recreation Area.

Stormy day on the Bay Area. A huge cloud cluster over the Golden Gate Bridge. Taken from the Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, California.

St Ives, Cornwall

with my Canon point and shoot

More sunset

Sunset

Shark River Inlet Clouds - 2 shot panorama from a3300

Back in 2007 - before the cane industry went belly-up.

From Hali`imaile looking mauka toward Makawao on a day when there were storms in the vicinity. This shot almost got discarded until I got a new monitor. It was too dark on my old one. Even now it's too dark due to my polarizing filter. I keep it up just as a reminder of my learning curve.

The clouds are about right, but I wish the sky were a bit lighter.

Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

I have put off posting this shot as it is not one of my favorites. My husband likes it - I find it to dark. This shot is taken above the clouds overlooking the city of Quito, Ecuador.

Clouds having a nice elongated shape with a bit of land, taken while I was walking, to test my new polarizing filter.

Big poufy cloud ~ what more do you need to know? ;o) ... At first - it kind of made me wonder if there weren't some governmental testing grounds *over there* or something, but ~ I haven't grown a hump on my back or anything ... yet ... but stay tuned - there's still time ...

Update:

Okay - so I consulted a weather expert friend and he was kind enough to explain this cloud formation to me ~ this big poufy cloud I thought was so cute and harmless isn't exactly so cute and harmless ...

"The name they give it is called "Cumulonimbus incus"

A cumulonimbus incus (Latin incus, "anvil") is a cumulonimbus cloud which has reached the level of stratospheric stability and has formed the characteristic flat, anvil-top shape. It can cause a supercell and then a tornado.

A cumulonimbus incus is a sub-form of cumulonimbus capillatus."

I see these quite frequently in my area of North Texas and thought they were just big poufy clouds ~ from now on, I will have to be more aware of them (and definitely have my camera at the ready!) ...

Thanks to Nebraskasc for the cloud ID!

For years we told our kids that clouds were made here ..... well it's not that far off the truth! :-)

Clouds lit by the setting Sun over the Elder Range.

Helsinki, Haltiala

Secuncia de OCASO

Amsterdam, April 2007

Contemplando il banco di nuvole che invade la scena, quasi non ci si accorge che al margine basso destro della foto fa la sua timida comparsa l'abitato di Castelluccio di Norcia

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

― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds