SkyPix

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

Cascade from Orange Rock

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On the highest parts of southern Utah's plateau country, characteristically orange desert rock layers have been uplifted thousands of feet into altitudes where lakes and forests cover them. Water draining Navajo Lake has tunneled a conduit through the ochre-toned sediments, rushing out of this rock wall before plunging stepwise for miles through the Dixie National Forest as the North Fork of the … [Read more...]

Frisco Hail

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Once it was readily apparent that a supercell I had been tracking was in no substantial danger of producing a tornado, I found a drive-through overhang at a closed bank and backed in.  This would let the supercellular vault region (a notorious place for precipitation size sorting of this nature) pass overhead, with windshield protection for my vehicle.  The result was significant hail of very … [Read more...]

22-degree Halo

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Light from the sun or moon, bent through hexagonal ice crystals in cirrus clouds, often forms a ring removed at a 22-degree angle from the position of its source.  The coloring looks similar to a primary rainbow, but in reverse, with reds on the inside grading through yellow and green to blue and purple hues on the outside.  However, the process is not the same, since the water state involved is … [Read more...]

Abstractions in an Icelandic Paint Pot

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Staring into an Icelandic geothermal mud pond, also known at Yellowstone as a paint pot for obvious reasons, one can become mesmerized at the continually evolving bands of dark and light fluid, deforming and stretching this way and that as the mud flows both horizontally and vertically through the system.   Zooming in to the features captures a singular work of natural abstract art, an ephemeral … [Read more...]

Godafoss Sunset

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Though modest in height by Icelandic standards, Godafoss (Waterfall of the Gods) rightfully is renowned as once of Iceland's most inspiring and beautiful.  That's especially true when paired with one of those lengthy sunsets of a high-latitude summertime.  To balance the light for this shot, I employed either a 2- or 3-stop handheld graduated neutral-density filter, wiping off spray with a … [Read more...]

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...]