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Taken at the Essex County Cricket Ground awaiting the match to start.
It didn't. Abandoned due to the weather. Typical for the UK, Glorious sunshine for weeks on end and when I decided to go to a cricket match it rains for the 24 hours before thus making the outfield too dangerous for play. Nothing left to do but adjourn to the pub.
Looking back ... pulled this one out of the archives from three and a half years ago. Still like it. The original title was "nuages." That is one French word I definitely like. It has just the right sound for high, delicate clouds. The English word is fine for puffy cumulus and dark stormy clouds, but "nuages" seems to fit better for wispy white strands like these. Typically, when cirrus clouds are prominent, so too are jet contrails. And there were some in this sky too, but fortunately they didn't intrude here.
The sun behind a billowing cumulous cloud producing interesting textures and rays in this series of shots taken within a few minutes.
September 19, 2013 - East of Kearney Nebraska, US
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Our storm season is coming to an end, I wasn't about to miss out on one of Mother Natures last showing of Electrical Theater...in South Central Nebraska.
First round of storms hit about 5am. Sound asleep, my wife was shaking me, get up, get up.. I was prepared in case the storms erupted. There was so much lightning, it illuminated everything in the room. Grabbed my essential gear, headed out of the house, opened garage door and the 45mph wind gust made the rain go horizontal. Pea sized hail was ferociously coming down, I wasn't going anywhere.....
I was honestly disappointed, thinking that I had probably missed my last good opportunity for some incredible nighttime storm captures. Storms were supposed to fire in the early overnight not early morning.....
Hence living in Nebraska, patience has to be a virtue for every storm enthusiast. I went out after the first storms pushed through. I was about to capture some of my best of storm snaps of 2013. I was in luck, as strong thunderstorm redevelopment just off to the southwest....
The 2nd round of storms were producing some incredible Cloud to Cloud, and tons of Cloud to Ground Lighting. I couldn't have asked for a better photo opportunity!
I was hoping that these won't be the last shots of 2013, the were not.... Definitely worth my time catching them that early morning! Eye Candy for the Storm Chaser in Mind!
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"Les mouvantes architectures que Dieu fait avec les vapeurs, les merveilleuses constructions de l'impalpable"
("The mobile monuments that God creates from mists, marvelous constructions of the impalpable")
-- Charles Baudelaire
There were some majestic looking cumulus clouds over Addlestone this morning.
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