SkyPix

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

Skjalfandafljot River: Rock Cutting

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Downstream from the famous cascade Godafoss, eyes often miss the stark beauty of the Skjalfandafljot River, its beautiful, glacial blue waters slowly carving a canyon through hard basalt deposits common to the entirely igneous geology of the island.  As long as this channel doesn't get filled by more lava—an uncertainty for certain—the river eventually will cut a gorge several hundred feet deep, … [Read more...]

Erick’s Electrics

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After a flaming sunset began the real "chase day," we followed a cluster of storms as it loped through the eastern Texas Panhandle, intermittently shooting forth sizzling jabs of lightning.  Its final electrical encore blazed through the skies over Erick, a dot on the western Oklahoma map also located just to the right of this photo.  Duly satisfied with what we had salvaged from what had been a … [Read more...]

Dusty Texas Sundown

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Another storm intercept day ended with a vivid Great Plains sunset, this time through both colorful high clouds and a pall of fine dust in the western sky. Although the storms developing behind our backs did little of note before darkness set in, and were not even particularly photogenic prior to this, a brilliantly blazing Panhandle sundown saved the day.  Indeed, our main interest before … [Read more...]

Relic of the Great Plains

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A teetering, towering testament to a bygone era, within about eight years this grain structure mo longer punctuated the High Plains skyline.  I don't know whether its downfall was a downburst, tornado, blizzard, or simply the pressure of one final gust against the wrong wall.  If it had a voice, I wonder what stories the building could have told me of the Panhandle storms it weathered.   Now it … [Read more...]

Recovery Log

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A more charred log rests neatly and in perpendicular atop a naturally split one—both felled during one of the many substantial fires that have toasted large parts of the Yellowstone National park landscape over the previous couple decades.  The cold climate of this mountainside, at altitudes above 7,000 feet, has helped to preserve the remains of the fallen conifers against the rot that would be … [Read more...]

Pinatubo Dust Glow over South Florida

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Early in the morning twilight, the eastern sky glowed with a peculiar copper tint, arching upward and outward from the future sunrise point in progressively darker hues, like an optical band shell.  Light from the predawn sun was refracting through a stratospheric ash layer courtesy of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption 17 months before, in the faraway Philippines.  The volcano had lofted enormous volumes … [Read more...]