SkyPix

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

Night Freeze

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Quiet but for the sporadic crackle of icy tree limbs in a muted breeze, the OU campus bore a distinctively transient manner of nocturnal illumination, sparkling from thousands of points of reflection above ground.  Ice from a freezing-rain event coated objects above the surface, down to grass blades; but streets stayed too warm for the liquid to freeze. Norman OK (22 Dec 13) Looking W 35.1842, … [Read more...]

Frozen Wonder

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Strange shapes sparkle on a sunny winter's day:  four regularly spaced drip points down the stick from the main path for water running off a tree during an ice storm.  The direction of the main icicle slowly changed as the limb got heaver and heavier, leaning down with progressive coats of ice, rendering a sickle-shaped effect. Norman OK (24 Dec 13) Looking N … [Read more...]

Black Sand and Surf of Dyrholaey

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Sharp contrast marks the surf line of the sub-Arctic North Atlantic against the black volcanic sands of southern Iceland's beaches.  A wide view of the Dyrholaey coast shows the context of this amazing, starkly beautiful beach as a product of volcanic debris deposited by huge, eruption-triggered glacial floods. 3 WSW Vik, Iceland (16 Aug 14) Looking WNW 63.4032, -19.1318 … [Read more...]

Second Alma Nocturnal

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This amazing night's second gorgeous storm rolled past us to the NW and N at about 1 a.m., on a very similar track to the first one.  What are the odds of two stunning, electrically profuse supercells moving past one place within a couple hours bracketing midnight?  Having observed and predicted such storms for about a quarter-century at the time, I neither had seen nor heard of anything quite … [Read more...]

One Winter’s Twilight

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As darkness began to fall across the silent, still, frigid Oklahoma landscape, I started to turn in for the evening, finished with a long and rich day of shooting winter-storm scenes, including icy grass blades at this location.   Then this offbeat marvel presented itself beneath the top rail of a farm gate.   Shivering and miserable, I didn't fully appreciate the eerie scene until thawing and … [Read more...]