SkyPix

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

Majesty before Mayhem

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Less than 15 minutes after this amazing skyscape appeared over the grasslands of east-central Montana, the very same atmospheric process (a supercell at the tail end of a line of storms) unloaded severe, damaging winds and hail that busted every west-facing window in Winnett.  Therein is the dichotomy of life on the Great Plains: majesty and beauty intertwine with danger and destruction, day to … [Read more...]

Aqueous Nocturne

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Before reading the next sentence, some folks may not correctly guess the contents of this photograph.  The time exposure, set to the lights within Savannah's Forsyth Park fountain, was framed precisely to capture the spray plumes from several water jets, to the exclusion of any surrounding foreground (i.e., the fountain's structures).  The partial scene is absolutely authentic, but as with any … [Read more...]

Sparkling Char

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In countless twinkles of prismatic reflection, the bright sunlight of a June noontime sparkles off the crystalline carbon surface of a charred log.  Wildfires can bring death, destruction and misery, but also rejuvenation and renewal.  Sometimes one even may find a nugget of unexpected beauty in their aftermath, as in this few inches of Devils Tower National Monument.  A lesson: as spectacular as … [Read more...]

Olympic Mountains in Smoke

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Seldom are the Olympics seen like this.  An eerie, otherworldly aura of light, shadow and vapors suffused the valleys and mountainsides on this cool morning, when a slowly eroding inversion layer held dense smoke from three active, month-long, lightning-initiated wildfires tightly against the undulating terrain.  Overhead, a thickening cloud layer aloft sandwiched the thin band of relatively clear … [Read more...]

One Rialto Moment

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Thirty minutes before, no indication existed that daylight's denouement would be anything other than a really nice beach scene with some twilight wrapping around distant stack islands.  That alone is more than a sufficient and appreciated blessing to experience.  One fortuitously timed patch of cirrus clouds, wafting southward over the sea, centered right between the rocks at peak color, made this … [Read more...]