SkyPix

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

Torrent under the Tree

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Swollen out of its banks and agitated almost to a froth by a large floodgate release just upstream, the Neosho (Grand) River surged around and beneath many trees in its floodplain.  Brilliant spotlighting of this trunk and lower branches, against the turbulent backdrop of the churning waters, drew my attention to the scene and essentially composed the shot for me. 5 NNE Fort Gibson OK (16 Oct … [Read more...]

Menacing Aurora

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We parked beside the road at the west edge of Aurora, ready to drive through town and away while dreading the highway-hugging tornado's impending impact there.  A civil-defense siren eerily wailed behind me; otherwise, the scene was oddly silent and ominously dark in the fading twilight.  Police had blocked all traffic westward out of town, and no other chase vehicles had arrived at our location … [Read more...]

Layers Looming

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A broken line of storms with embedded supercells marched steadily southeastward across the Texas Panhandle, offering a visual treat.  Fascinating layered tiers stacked themselves atop the collective outflow pool.  Under a less-dense part of the precipitation shield, the cloud base glowed with a teasing swipe of sunset colors.  Above the main arcus, an extension of the lower-midlevel banded-shelf … [Read more...]

Mirages on a Cold Western Road

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A series of narrow white highway mirages cross a marvelously desolate country two-lane near the California-Nevada state line, on my last trip with a slide-film camera.  Just two days earlier, a small but potent snowstorm had blanketed the White Mountains (ahead in the view), the Sierra Nevada behind me, and the Long Valley Caldera between, with a good coating of fresh powder.  Apparently, this … [Read more...]

Downside Up

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Only the mirrored view is photographed here, where the sun is diffused somewhat by intervening fog, then reflected (along with the arboreal silhouettes) off the surface of a limpid pond.  Scanning the whole of a scene offers not only the over-arching, full perspective, but opportunities to focus one's concentration (or composition, if engaging the art of photography) into particularly captivating … [Read more...]

Wild Night Sky

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A dense band of severe thunderstorms with embedded supercells plowed southeastward at over 50 mph and forced both stable and unstable layers of air to rise, creating this magnificently lightning-tinted rampart of cloud decks beneath a mammatus-dappled anvil teeming with electrical crawlers. 10 NW Sayre OK (16 May 16) Looking NNW 35.4079, -99.7308 … [Read more...]