SkyPix

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

Scaling Hydrology

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Purposefully composed for ambiguity of scale, this image of fluid natural artwork initially makes one unsure if the height of the photographer is closer to 3, 300, 3,000, or 30,000 feet. Stream flow courses and erodes in similar ways at vastly different scales—in this case, the best answer being 3 feet.  The best give-away is a shoe mark at upper left.  Even though this scene was alongside the … [Read more...]

Crystal Daggers

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After and despite all the destruction an ice storm can bring, the first clear, cold day that follows can offer opportunities to appreciate the peculiar spectacles in the frozen scenes.   As a gentle breeze swayed limbs in the background, making them sparkle and crackle in rhythmic pulsations of color and noise amplified by the ambient dead silence, the more sturdy, icicle-bearing branch simply … [Read more...]

Downstream Maelstrom

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Just downstream from Dettifoss (Europe's largest waterfall) and under the plume of spray, a fluidly abstract scene roiled and roared along in the form of the  snowmelt-swollen Jokulsa a Fjollum River.  The high water, flood-producing in a few places upstream and downstream, ran a deep, muddy gray, laden with volcanic silt and ash ground up and carried by Iceland's biggest sheet glacier, … [Read more...]

Night Storm over the Platte River

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Nebraska treated me well weatherwise and otherwise in 2017, despite missing out on springtime storm-intercept opportunities there.  A March trip to see the sandhill crane migration dazzled us with the experience of seeing a huge flock of them flying through a rainbow (along with snow geese, too!).  Just a couple hours before this, we watched a marvelous supercellular sunset—unexpected and uncommon … [Read more...]

Summertime Supercellular Sunset

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On our way northwest to set up for eclipse viewing two days later, we noted a massive, heavy-precipitation supercell on radar erupting out of a pre-existing, small area of thunderstorms to the distant north, in north-central Nebraska.  Too late in the day to drive closer than about 80 miles to the storm before darkness set in, we instead found an open vantage near the town where we were staying, … [Read more...]

Lines of Inundation

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Somehow, two things conceptually as ugly as a muddy water and a chain-link fence can combine to form an abstractly interesting, uncommonly depicted, and perhaps even beautiful pattern.  I suppose, in a photographic sense, this is the equivalent of a Reuben sandwich for me:  corned beef, kraut and dressing that I wouldn't consume individually, but which taste good together in whole composition.  … [Read more...]