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High Plains Sunset, Clayton

2023-09-08 By Roger Edwards

High Plains Sunset, Clayton

A series of somewhat short-lived supercells had formed and gone, leaving behind abundant, highly varying low- and middle-level convective cloud residue as a foil for yet another beautiful High Plains sunset, here shown through the narrow view field of a deep zoom.  This was a wonderful way to end an uncommon July chase day in northeastern New Mexico and extreme southern Colorado.  Standing just a few miles from this spot the previous fall, I shot a pretty sunrise, looking in the same direction but with quite different technique.

4 WNW Clayton NM (5 Jul 23) Looking WNW
36.4768, -103.2551

Filed Under: Sunsets and Sunrises Tagged With: Clayton, clouds, convection, cumulus, Cumulus humilis, deep zoom, fractocumulus, Great Plains, New Mexico, sun, sunsets, towering cumulus, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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