SkyPix

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

Downstream Maelstrom

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Just downstream from Dettifoss (Europe's largest waterfall) and under the plume of spray, a fluidly abstract scene roiled and roared along in the form of the  snowmelt-swollen Jokulsa a Fjollum River.  The high water, flood-producing in a few places upstream and downstream, ran a deep, muddy gray, laden with volcanic silt and ash ground up and carried by Iceland's biggest sheet glacier, … [Read more...]

Night Storm over the Platte River

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Nebraska treated me well weatherwise and otherwise in 2017, despite missing out on springtime storm-intercept opportunities there.  A March trip to see the sandhill crane migration dazzled us with the experience of seeing a huge flock of them flying through a rainbow (along with snow geese, too!).  Just a couple hours before this, we watched a marvelous supercellular sunset—unexpected and uncommon … [Read more...]

Summertime Supercellular Sunset

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On our way northwest to set up for eclipse viewing two days later, we noted a massive, heavy-precipitation supercell on radar erupting out of a pre-existing, small area of thunderstorms to the distant north, in north-central Nebraska.  Too late in the day to drive closer than about 80 miles to the storm before darkness set in, we instead found an open vantage near the town where we were staying, … [Read more...]

Lines of Inundation

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Somehow, two things conceptually as ugly as a muddy water and a chain-link fence can combine to form an abstractly interesting, uncommonly depicted, and perhaps even beautiful pattern.  I suppose, in a photographic sense, this is the equivalent of a Reuben sandwich for me:  corned beef, kraut and dressing that I wouldn't consume individually, but which taste good together in whole composition.  … [Read more...]

Salt Particle Reflections

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On a midsummer's high noon, almost precisely 24 hours before the landfall of Hurricane Dennis at this very spot, the calm water belied the tumult that soon would unfold.  Hints luked.  Beaches were strangely devoid of the usual collection of fishermen, old couples strolling the strandline, kids with sand buckets, alluring young women in flip-flops and bikinis, and the frisbee-tossing, … [Read more...]

Outflow Eruption

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Following the passage of a strong gust front, the turbulent textures of a "whale's mouth" formation offer the moving illusion of a rolling boil, a perspective made even more striking when the formation brackets a volcanic mountain in the High Plains of northeastern New Mexico,  giving the eruptive appearance a geological foundation.  Even though a superficial glance makes it appear the cloud … [Read more...]