Altostratus is best appreciated when one unbiases its lackluster reputation as gray, dull, bland and ordinary, and looks deeper into the scene. In certain settings, it is powerfully, grimly beautiful, as it was here for me, shooting this film slide. The somber mood evoked by the solitary sea stack is intensified by the slate-like blue-gray of dense altostratus over water. Almost a visual whole, sky over ocean, the island appeared to float as if it were a dark, loose berg, adrift in the calm sea instead of a fixed extension of the basalt bedrock below.
2 SSE LaPush WA (19 Jul 3) Looking WNW
47.8903, -124.628