SkyPix

A digital photographic storybook of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards.

More Flooded Farmland with Lightning Reflections

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As a severe-hail-producing supercell receded eastward and absorbed into a larger storm cluster, its trailing precipitation region and flooded farm field yielded a fine show of direct and reflected electric light.  Given all this water and mud, the center-pivot irrigator at distant right would be neither useful nor usable for a few days, at least. 4 N Olustee OK (8 May 19) Looking SE 34.6052, … [Read more...]

Flaming Follow-Up

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Two days after a splendid sunset performance, the sky played an encore.  Anyone in the same area, looking up at the same time, was treated to another stunner.  This one glowed courtesy of a fortuitously positioned patch of deeply furrowed clouds—altocumulus undulatus—over a clean, cold, post-frontal boundary layer.  The year 2022 wasted no time offering amazing sunsets in these parts. Norman OK … [Read more...]

Sunset Elements 5

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[Part 5 of 5]  This astoundingly long Oklahoma sunset show saved its best for last, as far as I am concerned:  a deep zoom into the complexly folded texture of flaming reds, undulating through the farthest western sky and over the horizon.  One could have employed assorted directions and zoom factors to shoot a dozen unique-looking sky scenes in this event, even as I only feature five.  In that … [Read more...]

Sunset Elements 4

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[Part 4 of 5]  For this, I ducked inside and ran up a few flights of stairs to get above the trees, for the most part.  Even when overhead colors fade, we can lengthen the sunset experience by focusing on continuing fiery colors and evolving cloud shapes wandering the lowest sky, just above the horizon.  Such little scenes of wonderment are tailor-made for zooming in deep with either lens or … [Read more...]

Sunset Elements 3

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[Part 3 of 5]  Panning back southwest, the wide-sky sector sampled in Part 1 darkened and reddened further, maintaining its somewhat radial appearance even as the cloud shapes continued to shift and pivot.  Minute after minute passed with the sky brilliantly aglow like this, a long sunset fostered by the low wintertime angle of descent below horizon.  And the glorious moments lingered... [Go to … [Read more...]

Sunset Elements 2

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[Part 2 of 5]  When blazing sunset scenes splash themselves across a large fraction of the sky, then last for many minutes as cloud forms evolve, the variety of views and compositions in one episode becomes almost endless, especially with either eyes or camera actively performing zoom, pan and pivot maneuvers.  The streaky, rippled texture of the "lower high cloud" form sneakily nestled a contrail … [Read more...]