SkyPix

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

Double Reflected Convective Pastels

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A weakening supercell moved over cool outflow from earlier storms, combining with some fall foliage at ground level to dazzle who witnessed the spectacle with a brief but brilliant splash of pastel tones.  The dominant light source for the scene came from a strange direction, too:  northeast (left)!  Sunset light first was refracted through a combination of thinly clouded and cloud-free … [Read more...]

The Green Flash

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My second attempt at photographing the elusive "green flash" also barely worked, after barely nabbing another one over the Gulf from Florida, a couple years before.  This type is known as an inferior-mirage flash, where the sun is below the horizon, but a mirage under a thermal inversion acts as a thin, edge-on prismatic lens to separate the blue-green sunlight and bend a sliver of it over the … [Read more...]

Warm Outflow

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This is the first image in SkyPix specifically titled "outflow" that isn't in the Gallery of Outflow!  The name, both sarcastic and somewhat literally true, instead describes a 2,000-degree oozing inferno that sculpts its own fluid art anew every minute—a flow of rock, not air.  Destruction and renewal run downhill together in a river of rock, remaking the world everywhere it flows.  Episode 61g … [Read more...]

Moon through Anvil

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One fine evening in Scotts Bluff National Monument, after presumably its last lightning activity, a weakening supercell floated overhead, its anvil translucent to the waxing moon.  The surrounding landscape of sandstone and ash bluffs took on the blended hue of refracted moonlight from above and town lights of Scottsbluff and Gering, reflected off the clouds.  Thinking the storm was merely a … [Read more...]

Puuhonua o Honaunau Sunset: Deep Zoom

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A marvelous South Kona sunset paints the Pacific sky beyond Puuhonua o Honaunau National Park.  Deep zooming into a sunset sky rich in cloud diversity and textures can yield a perspective both microscale and macroscale at the same time.  That's because, while pointing to a distance of infinity, the subset sampled is just a small postage stamp of the entire sky.  Yet how many … [Read more...]

Textured Sky with Asperatus, South Icelandic Coast

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The wild coastline of Iceland never fails to offer moments of wonder and amazement—just give it a few minutes.  Land, sea and sky all play nicely together here, on an afternoon when most tourists simply saw a solemn sky, and this cloud and sky enthusiast experienced good times.  The sea stacks off Reynisfjara here punctuated a splendid collection of clouds, from midlevel asparatus undulatus above … [Read more...]