SkyPix

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

Stream Cutting Snowy Scrublands

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The Canadian River, downstream from Ute Reservoir, has dissected the Great Plains scrublands over many millennia and carried particles of what once was caprock-clad Ogallala formation to the Louisiana coast.  This unusual aerial perspective catches a fine geomorphology laboratory frozen, both in time and in a blanket of fresh snow that the otherwise parched landscape sorely needed. over San Jon … [Read more...]

Spencer SD Tornado

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The big tornado at bottom center of this wide-angle, 35-mm slide had passed over the photo location about 10 minutes earlier—a glacial-era kettle lake, whipped to whitecaps by the trailing rear-flank downdraft (RFD) and strewn with small debris.  The rain-diffused rays of the setting Dakota sun cast aglow the scud tags in the high foreground, as they raced southward (left-to-right) around the west … [Read more...]

Snow Shafts in City Lights

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Just three months before, I crouched under sea grape trees in the Florida Keys for a long exposure of the distant glow of Greater Miami.  Now, 1,751 miles farther northwest, one mile higher and around 50 degrees (F) colder, a much less-distant urban glow lit up a series of small snow showers and their attendant, collective cloud field so brilliantly that only a few seconds' exposure was needed to … [Read more...]

Bridge to an Auburn Sky

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Reddish hues on the horizon just poleward of sunset silhouetted the river bridge at Savannah, their reflections blending with the bluer color of the unseen sky above to make the intermediate tone reflected off the water.  My timely position on the stern of a downriver cruise boat, a zoom lens, and steadiness bracketing (rapid-firing a series of shots from a moving vessel with the idea that at … [Read more...]

Sunset over Savannah

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From the deck of a riverboat, a sunset cruise offered a view as fine as advertised, the wintertime sun going down between high-rise buildings of downtown and midtown Savannah.  The blocky edifice just to the right of the sun is the Hilton hotel in which I stayed for a severe-storms conference; and the twin-steepled structure at left is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, just a couple blocks … [Read more...]

Distant Urban Sky Glow

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The glow of the Miami metro area, over 50 miles away across eastern Florida Bay, penetrates a swath of night sky in the middle Keys, and reflects off the shallow and tranquil waters.  Some refer to man-made sky glow as a form of light pollution.  Millions of light sources all across the big population center produce this effect in aggregate, which in turn scatters through the atmosphere … [Read more...]