SkyPix

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

Blue Lagoon: Land and Sky

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The soothing turquoise mineral waters of Iceland's Blue Lagoon, set against dark and jagged basalt from a young lava flow, defy visual norms, offering strange contrasts in color and multi-dimensionality across the vista.  In the sky, thin cirrostratus and chunks of altostratus texturize the scene further.  The silica and sulfur minerals precipitate from the outdoor cooling of superheated … [Read more...]

Icelandic Waterfall, by the Drop

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On a fine morning at Öxarárfoss (Thingvellir National Park), it was tempting and justifiable to do some full-scale waterfall photography.   Still, when one can freeze-frame thousands of drops to compose a more intimate and uncommon perspective on a world-famous cascade, why not? 16 ENE Mosfellsdalur, Iceland (11 Aug 14) Looking W 64.2658, -21.1173     … [Read more...]

Hofsvik Sunset Prelude

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As seen from Iceland's narrow western coastal plain, the interior bluffs and hills grasped the very last of their day's rays, while deepening golden yellows illuminated orographic low clouds hovering overhead.  Despite its shallowness, this cumuliform cloud feature produced warm-cloud rain, as evident in the short rainbow segment at middle left.  "Warm cloud" and Iceland don't seem to match, and … [Read more...]

1908 Reykjanes Lighthouse in Fog

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Lighthouses don't help much when the fog is this dense, and they're usually not flipped on in the daytime anyway.  Aside from the ambient cool, high-humidity, maritime air typically attendant to this corner of the North Atlantic, advection from a nearby geothermal steam area helped greatly to construct the fog, and lent a somber mood of mystery to the scene.   This 1908 structure, residing high … [Read more...]

Brycebow

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Retreating storms cast both a rainbow and darkly textured background past the warmly lit orange stone walls and pillars of Bryce Canyon.  The same storms had passed over the park midday to mid-afternoon, running a lot of people back into cover and thinning the crowds considerably for the onset of late-afternoon "magic hour" light. 4 W Tropic UT (6 Aug 17) Looking ESE 37.6226, … [Read more...]

Thundering Gallup

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One electrically bereft storm passed east-northeastward across the desert landscape north of Gallup, offering a tasty-looking pastel sunset.  The next storm in the line produced a lot of lightning, mostly buried deeply in heavy rain, as with the faint strokes in the middle background.  How glorious it was, then, to catch two more flashes splitting the sky almost simultaneously along the core's … [Read more...]