SkyPix

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

Friday Night Light, Part 2

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After the Part 1 shot with the stalwart midrange focal-length lens, I pulled out the zoom camera with its big, heavy metal tube lens, affectionately known as the "sewer pipe", and focused on the farther elements, reddening with time, but also with distance as sunlight traversed more of the blue-filtering troposphere.   A richly variegated array of mostly high clouds swept across the sky, … [Read more...]

Friday Night Light, Part 1

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Oklahoma is well-known among weather enthusiasts and photographers alike for its stunning sunsets.  Even for here, however, this view from the top of the National Weather Center ranked in my annals as one of the top few of the decade—and not just for the colors or longevity, though those didn't disappoint.  This one also had texture and morphology:  a rich and visually delicious evolution of … [Read more...]

Fiery Mountain Sky

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When I was little, far away from mountains I never had seen, a song called Fire on the Mountain, by the Marshall Tucker Band, conjured up a mental image of a deeply textured and stunning high-country sunset sky remarkably similar to this.  That thought, often imagined back then but later filed away forgotten until I finally experienced this moment, also immediately reminded of the song, which I … [Read more...]

South Park Snow and Fog

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Winter's first snows fell this fall day across the floor of the valley known as South Park, while autumnal colors still festooned the surrounding mountains.  All of that was reduced by low visibility here, in fog and variably dense snowfall, to a bleakly evocative view of nearby shortgrass prairie whose growing season had expired, punctuated only by a single windmill.  Even though this is a flat … [Read more...]

Yuma Hues

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Ghostly luminescence in tones of cream to turquoise surrounded the structural waistline of this low-precipitation (LP) supercell, as the storm drifted eastward beneath the anvil of a much bigger, better-organized, heavy-precipitation (HP) supercell that was barrelling in from the west.  This unusual sky wouldn't last long.  Both storms proceeded eastward across Yuma County, before this hauntingly … [Read more...]

Sunset Scud Scene

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Evocatively moody scenes can be had simply by sampling a small subset of sunset sky through the deep zoom.   On an anomalously moist evening in the high country, patches of scud (fractocumulus) drifted in and out of shadows of other clouds, not far above the silhouetted surface of the San Juan Mountains' northern foothills. 5 SSW Ridgway CO (4 Oct 18) Looking W 38.0898, -107.7858 … [Read more...]