Newest Posts: SkyPix by Roger Edwards

Shadows of Stratocumuli

2016-02-02 By Roger Edwards

After descending through a deck of stratocumulus clouds that had a rather uniform and nondescript appearance topside, this marvelous abstract artwork of shadow and light wriggled across the Corn Belt landscape of farms, mostly harvested fields and township-range road grids. over northern IL (11 Oct 13) Looking NW … [Read more...]

Stroke of Brilliance

2016-02-02 By Roger Edwards

A tremendous two-channeled strike brightly illuminated land, sky and water near the north end of Lake Murray. While a dazzling and spectacular display for the lightning photographer, this is not what any given fisherman wishes to see while cruising his bass boat across the water. Fortunately, a different severe storm already had come and gone very recently, clearing all nautical traffic off the … [Read more...]

Bad Storm Coming

2016-02-02 By Roger Edwards

After merging with some other convection, the broader, messier but only weakly tornadic version of the El Reno supercell presents an unusually dark, ominous face while looming beyond the National Weather Center. There I took a very brief break from outlook and forecast-support duties to spot the incoming storm, take this photo, and assess its potential to produce a tornado close enough for backup … [Read more...]

Fire then Ice

2016-02-02 By Roger Edwards

How can we hoist an image up to both the Okie Winters and Burnscapes galleries? Like this! Unceremoniously toasted by the "Noble Fire" in 2012, enough of this fencepost survived to be covered in ice a year and a half later. Noble OK (21 Dec 13) Looking SW 35.149 -97.3706 … [Read more...]

Mooney Sunrise

2016-01-31 By Roger Edwards

Taking in a glorious sunrise from one side of the sky to the other, I realized that soon a rather unconventional composition soon would avail itself—dawn's half moon bathed in soft, feathery, coral-pink translucence of sunrise cirrus. Time for the zoom lens, quickly! Norman OK (31 Jan 16) Looking SW … [Read more...]

Sunrise Swath Overhead

2016-01-31 By Roger Edwards

The last sunrise of January 2016 was a treat, both from the opposite side of the sky and from this one. Rotating forward from a set of overnight shifts, I was unusually awake and available to view, appreciate and photograph this masterpiece of the sky's ethereal fluid canvas. The richly textured belt of cirrus soon translated in front of the half moon, yielding a marvelous zoomed perspective … [Read more...]