SkyPix

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

The Golden Hour

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Enjoying the coastal Everglades reflections of the warmly lit "golden hour"—that time of gradually reddening light soon before sunset—a fine notion struck:  I could use a deep zoom lens to capture a naturally sepia-toned portion of water and sky, with silhouetted landscape and a ready-made cloud and tree composition, right then and from the spot I stood.  So it was--one of my favorite Florida … [Read more...]

Marfa Light

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After forming in Old Mexico, this supercell crossed the Rio Grande, became elevated atop outflow that had spilled over the Davis Mountains from storms around Marathon, and yet forged onward in a merry parade of light and striking cloud forms.   Here the storm crosses the mountains NE of Marfa, casting a beautiful back-glow across a landscape stroked by a ribbon of ground fog, and brightening our … [Read more...]

Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

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That quote, from David Reynolds of the British severe-storms group TORRO, best describes this photo, which has become one of the most popular in my portfolio for its inspirational elegance in simplicity.  The hole opened between showers in an otherwise solid deck of nimbostratus, casting a subtle brightening across the cityscape.  Had I trudged from office building to car on this dark, wet … [Read more...]

Davis Mountains Stormscape

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A West Texas desert storm rolled over Marfa then off into the Davis Mountains, leaving behind an eerily wondrous scene of cool outflow scud on the peaks, a rainbow, and a faint hint of the double bow (at left)—all beyond an oddly greened and wettened landscape.  The weather pattern had brought unusually heavy rains to much of the southern Great Plains in May 2015, and even the adjoining … [Read more...]

North Platte Valley Funnel

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Swirling along a cyclonic-shear zone east of the main mesocyclone, a funnel cloud swirls for a couple minutes over the North Platte River Valley and Nebraska Panhandle prairies.   No dust or debris appeared with this funnel, one of several we saw on this remarkable storm-intercept day.   A separate storm over an hour later produced another funnel cloud, visible to the WSW from very near this … [Read more...]

Parting Kiss from Patricia

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Several of the most brilliantly chromatic sunset displays I've seen have been on the west side of high-cloud shields produced by tropical cyclones; this incredibly textured stunner ranks right up there.  A deeply granular cloud shield, spawned over Mexico by what was left of Hurricane Patricia, blew northeastward through our wide and wondrous sky.  Red rays of day's end shone through a thin slit … [Read more...]