SkyPix

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

Abandonment Reflections

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Literal and metaphorical reflection pervade this place of poor drainage where a once-thriving farmstead has been given over to the rising groundwater and its expansive floodwaters.  Water tables and stream flows have been growing gradually in much of the Sandhills of Nebraska for the last couple decades, at least.  A check of satellite imagery over time shows ponds forming and enlarging in recent … [Read more...]

Electrified Twilight

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Even a rather featureless, high-based, seemingly innocuous thunderstorm can offer a wild show.   I had arrived here wondering what to do with the situation after an earlier, nearby, right-moving supercell died, with a rather extensive swath of multicell thunderstorms to the north through distant northwest.  Seeing a few sporadic lightning flashes, I set up camera on tripod to see if I could get … [Read more...]

Comet NEOWISE: Dawn Twilight Portrait

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Zooming in from the previous landscape view, and flipping to portrait alignment, allowed the ground (and a reference tree) to remain in view while capturing an even bigger view of the delightful comet NEOWISE.  The comet was visible with the naked eye, but barely, and the sky was somewhat darker than this image indicates.  Time exposures of about 5 or 6 seconds allowed enough light to be consumed … [Read more...]

Comet NEOWISE: Dawn Twilight Landscape

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From an eastern Norman hilltop, we could see the beautiful comet NEOWISE roaming the predawn skies in July 2020, above a very humid boundary layer.  It is only the second comet I've been able to shoot, after Pan-STARRS in 2013 (attempts at Hale-Bopp-1997 with slide film failed, though it was the brightest of the three by far).  This comet bears the name NEOWISE after the NASA Wide-field Infrared … [Read more...]

Night Light

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Not a shred of daylight was left.  This wondrously stacked Great Plains supercell instead illuminated itself with amazing smoothness, entirely from its own prolific internal lightning generation, over the span of about a ten-second exposure.  As of 2020, I've witnessed more supercells than I can count, hundreds by day and night, over 35 storm-observing seasons.  Few have mesmerized and captivated … [Read more...]

High Plains Rays

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Storms failed to materialize diurnally on this, the first day of my second Great Plains chase excursion in June 2020.  Still, the effort wasn't for naught, even without perfect foreknowledge of great storms in the forthcoming few days.   These towers along the slow-moving cold front at least offered a marvelous sunset scene, replete with crepuscular rays, as bobwhite quail and western meadowlarks … [Read more...]