SkyPix

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

Rock Castles in the Clouds

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Where the mountains reach the clouds, one can find enchanting views!  After the first Colorado rain squall from the remnants of Pacific Hurricane Rosa passed over our location at 11,000 feet, fog at our level and scuddy outflow clouds aloft cleared only gradually, permitting a wonderfully moody scene evolving by the second:  broken views of the high crags and pillars of stone forming the ridge … [Read more...]

Friday Night Light, Part 3

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A remarkably long-lasting and diversely textured sunset continued across the central Oklahoma sky, as seen from the National Weather Center's observation deck.  Neither this, nor Part 1 or Part 2 of this set, were saturation-adjusted in any way from what was on the raw file.  This was how it looked when using a long-pipe lens to zoom deeply into the reddest part of the sky, when overhead … [Read more...]

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...]