Seldom do I witness sunrises, especially compared to the bulk of the day-shift civilization, because of being a frequent nighttime worker and either being indoors or asleep at the crack o' dawn. Yet keeping night hours on a day off has its advantages, particularly when staying up to witness a spectacle such as this after an early Thanksgiving day of gratitude, family, friends, good sleep, a … [Read more...]
Half Seen Sun, Soon None
Crepuscular rays blaze beyond the clouds' golden lining, the sunshine's encore appearance fleeting but brilliant, turbulent skies of abandoned storms retreating ever more distant toward the opposite horizon unseen. The routines of life beckon soon, as does the long, hot summer. With this annual metaphor of the last chase day's sundown, almost ritual but never identical, so ends another storm … [Read more...]
Leaning with the Winds of Time
As the marvelous Coffee Creek supercell rolled off the mountains east of Great Falls, it already provided a spectacular backdrop to another abandoned edifice a hundred yards away. Some indefinite time, many years ago, this structure was abandoned to the whim of the winds, a fate so common to homesteaders' structures up and down the Great Plains. Countless west winds since leaned this one in the … [Read more...]
Crepuscular and Curvy Contrail
Less than 40 feet but more than 13 years from where I shot my archetypical image of crepuscular rays, a late-summer sunset beamed past clouds unseen in the northwest that cut its fading plane of light into rays. A separate contrail no longer caught the pink light, the western of its two segments standing out well against the warmly lit background. Norman OK (9 Sep 16) Looking NW … [Read more...]
Spotlit Ocean
Elusive in my earlier trips to the Washington and Oregon coasts, a suitably broken stratus deck (with no overlying clouds) finally timed just right to yield a scene I long desired to see and photograph: crepuscular-spotlit ocean waters from a lofty vantage point. The cliffs above Ruby Beach offered just such a view. The different shapes of the sunlight-permitting cloud holes—linear or slit-like … [Read more...]
Lightning over Thunder Basin
For the second time the same day, the sky of northeastern Wyoming changed quickly from something rather drab and inert to a rich cloud canvas of texture and tone, a painting in motion, courtesy of the ultimate artist aloft. Early storms near Gillette sent out a huge gaseous puddle of cold outflow air, compelling our southward diversion in search of newer storms moving into a more favorable air … [Read more...]
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