SkyPix

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

Florida Green Flash

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This was the first time I saw (or managed to shoot) the elusive "green flash", following a Gulf of Mexico sunset. I say "following", because the sun is below the horizon; its light has been bent toward green/blue, as if through a prism, and bounced off an inversion to reach the eye and lens in a very fleeting manner. Read more about this fascinating phenomenon in my post on the second such … [Read more...]

Florida Orange

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It's not a fruit, but it's orange and in Florida!  While returning from a trip to the Shark Valley observation area, sunset light brilliantly illuminated a lone towering cumulus.  Unlike typical mid-November conditions here, a muggy, maritime/tropical air mass had remained in place well into autumn; indeed we had arrived in southern Florida to more summer-typical daily multicell storms … [Read more...]

Evening Sky Painting

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Central Oklahoma is famous among weather and photography enthusiasts (and especially weather-photography enthusiasts!) for its colorful sunset skies, and this was certainly no exception.  The sun and our atmosphere collaborated for just a few minutes on painting a marvelous fluid rendering of intermingled orange and blue tones, and it was up to this photographer to both capture and duly … [Read more...]

Mature Chickasha Tornado

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After an early multiple-vortex stage, the "Chickasha" tornado consolidated and organized into a persistent, nearly steady-state, barrel-shaped single vortex, ominously churning across the rolling country southwest of Oklahoma City.  Meanwhile, the great depth and volume of the parent supercell, above a low-cloud deck, cast a broad shadow dark as evening across the afternoon countryside, causing … [Read more...]

Bands of Bright and Dark

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Given enough time and perhaps changed viewing angles, even the same sunset experience can yield dramatically different (while still dramatic-looking) scenery.  This long-focal-length view captured a part of the same late-stage sunset sky slightly to the right of its representation from a minute or two before, but could be passed off plausibly as a different day's sight altogether.  … [Read more...]

Sunset Stripes

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When little or no color decorates your sunset scene overhead or across much of the sky, but some clouds reside above the horizon, have patience and despair not.  As long as a slot of uninhibited light trajectory exists on or even beyond the farthest view, those clouds sitting just off the horizon may light up late, blazed with brilliance for just a couple of minutes.  Those can yield … [Read more...]