SkyPix

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

Foggy Reflections at Cape Alava

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A colored corona, lost for both eyeball and camera in the glare of a fog-diffused sun, appeared as a reflection on calm Pacific waters at low tide.  This was over two years after, 20 degrees F colder, and 2855 miles farther northwest in the opposite corner of the country, compared to my previous photograph of coastal coronal reflections with islands--but no less peaceful and fulfilling.  I had … [Read more...]

Altocumulus Spray

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A glorious field of golden altocumulus clouds seems to radiate from the area of the horizon hosting the setting sun.  One among many amazing concepts about the sky and clouds is how very similar they can be from one place and situation to another (check out equallly dazzling examples from Minnesota, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and Bavaria in Germany), while never precisely … [Read more...]

Electric Scrub

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Tucked into a marvelously banded notch between a tail-end supercell's main updraft base and the rest of a line of storms, an electrically active area sparked several cloud-to-air discharges.  I managed to capture this odd one that resembled a scrub brush—but one you wouldn't want to touch! Yet another unique Great Plains skyscape, among countless more... 6 ESE Anton CO (23 Jun 13) Looking … [Read more...]

Sunset at Carhenge

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An earlier supercell storm, which had formed a fantastically shaped wall cloud, soon heaved forth a pool of cold air.   That may have been the cooldown for a storm chase, but it was just the warmup for the evening's photography.   Above the old storm's puddle of outflow, and above the whimsical western Nebraska monument known as Carhenge, these warmly toned chunks of scud rose at sunset.   Part … [Read more...]

The Ray of Hope

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A big, bright crepuscular ray with fainter, adjoining, smaller ones, formed between towering cumulus along the dryline in northeastern Kansas.  Major supercells 450 miles to the north, in the eastern Dakotas, produced violent "wedge" tornadoes this day; but they were far out of reach for me.  Still, the scene and this image that preserves it have served as a spiritually inspiring metaphor for me … [Read more...]

Red Glow under the Dark Deck

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Sunset looked like it would be basically a non-event, until a sliver of clearing pried opened along the western horizon just in time.  This deep zoom cuts directly across the miles at light's speed, plunging straight into the distant, deep reds lining an altostratus deck's fringe, pulling out and hauling back a tone reddened even more by passage to the lens.  Peak color lasted less than … [Read more...]