SkyPix

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

Ohanepecosh River Canyon Flood

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Fast-moving floodwaters just downstream from Silver Falls, fed both by the melting of Mt. Rainier's record-heavy snows and ongoing rainfall, made the Ohanapecosh River roar through its canyon with a booming vibration both heard and felt.  Over millions of years, a non-trivial portion of the volcano's southeast flank will be carried away, right down this gorge.  This short time exposure was shot in … [Read more...]

Day’s End in the Wintertime Woods

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On a calm, mild, late-winter's evening, pastel tones of the sunset sky filtered through the dense canopy of oak and walnut woods and thorny vines characteristic of the Cross Timbers.  Located in the transition from eastern forests to Great Plains, these woods shelter numerous species of birds.  Even with the somewhat reduced wintertime populations, this was a marvelous time for hearing them, with … [Read more...]

Arboreal Sunset Again

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Two days after another splendid, banded arboreal sunset, the sky lit up even sooner and brighter, though as usual, uniquely.  Every sunset scene is different simply by virtue of the fluid nature of cloud forms, regardless of the foreground for the shot or the zoom or pan chosen by the photographer.  Here, in addition to the brilliantly lit banding and indigo shadows, a faint sun pillar casts a … [Read more...]

Arboreal Sunset

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This scene was shot on the west lawn of the National Weather Center.  Not one normally prone to letting foregrounds take up this much of a sunset composition, I did some experimentation with the vertical branches and horizontal sunset-cirrus bands, deep-zooming into the reddest part of the western sky, and was rather pleased with the results.  Zooming that tightly through such intricate detail, … [Read more...]

Oklahoma Panhandle Did It Today!

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For hours, this dryline-born storm puttered erratically north-northeastward across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles as a high-based multicell and weak supercell, seemingly allergic to the concept of robust organization.  We got disgusted by its poor structure and seeming impotence in spite of favorable deep shear, and left just before sunset to aim for the next day's presumed target area in … [Read more...]

Orange Sky

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Blazing across the twilight sky above Kansas City's city hall, a supercell-spawned show of flaming-orange mammatus signals the end of a stormy day.  The stormy evening, however, was just beginning, as the supercell became elevated with a marvelous lightning show across areas north of the Missouri River. Kansas City MO (25 Jun 94) Looking NNW 39.0996, -94.5789   … [Read more...]