A brilliant, thoroughly enchanting scene greeted me, on this first full day of a two-week summertime photography excursion to the Great Plains and Southwest. The aim: wondrous scenes and opportunities for storms and landscapes. Goal fulfilled here, on both counts, on day 1! A complex of severe thunderstorms rumbled off the eastern Wyoming high country into the Nebraska twilight, its dense convective towers still thrusting skyward at right, its high upper reaches aflame with vivid sunset hue. Even those lower clouds out of direct sunlight got in on the show, with the distant line of shallow cumulus redirecting the glow of the bigger convection beyond, and more reflected light passing through the edges of the scuddy foreground fractocumulus. This was but one part of the sky and one moment in a refreshing and enchanting experience of High Plains majesty, from north through southeast.
14 ESE Wheatland WY (5 Jul 19) Looking SE
41.9734, -104.7166Fiery Sunset Storm Tops
A brilliant, thoroughly enchanting scene greeted me, on this first full day of a two-week summertime photography excursion to the Great Plains and Southwest. The aim: wondrous scenes and opportunities for storms and landscapes. Goal fulfilled here, on both counts, on day 1! A complex of severe thunderstorms rumbled off the eastern Wyoming high country into the Nebraska twilight, its dense convective towers still thrusting skyward at right, its high upper reaches aflame with vivid sunset hue. Even those lower clouds out of direct sunlight got in on the show, with the distant line of shallow cumulus redirecting the glow of the bigger convection beyond, and more reflected light passing through the edges of the scuddy foreground fractocumulus. This was but one part of the sky and one moment in a refreshing and enchanting experience of High Plains majesty, from north through southeast.
14 ESE Wheatland WY (5 Jul 19) Looking SE
41.9734, -104.7166