SkyPix

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

Double-Decker Shelf with Pileus

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Wyoming weather can change ever so fast.  Less than an hour before, only a few high based, fuzzy and amorphous looking showers, with terrible definition, littered the sky under a canopy of high clouds produced by separate storms in the Bighorn Mountains.  After heading east from Buffalo to Gillette, we turned around to be greeted by a wild and wicked western sky painted slate, cyan and turquoise … [Read more...]

Sundown on Two Great Lakes

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Earth rotates our nearest star below the horizon again, this time across the waters of two Great Lakes.  I shot this among a sequence of photos looking beyond and beneath the Mackinac Bridge (unseen, above), thereby shooting across the combined body of Lakes Huron (near) and Michigan (far).  Already distorted by differential refracting of the light through a long fetch of atmosphere, … [Read more...]

Inundation Conquest

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The abandonment of this farmstead long predated its inundation by a rising glacial-relic lake.  The flood simply makes the place even more of a "fixer-upper"!  Although water tables have been rising naturally for several years in much of eastern North Dakota and northeastern South Dakota, heavy spring rains and snowmelt in 2011 boosted that process enormously.  To the southwest, Roscoe's sewage … [Read more...]

Shaw Lake Reflections

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Golden aspens of a Colorado high-country autumn, and the cumulus-decorated blue sky above, fluidly alternated their reflections off the waters of Shaw Lake in the San Juan Mountains.  This surreal, abstract scene was astoundingly straightforward to shoot too:  enlarge ISO to enable fast shutter speed and high f-stop, point the camera at the rippled water, zoom in to the desired section, focus on … [Read more...]

Interstate in Danger

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We already had seen several tornadoes with a separate, bizarre, midday to early-afternoon supercell near the center of a deep-layer cyclone, well west-southwest of here.  After that storm died, I knew that some young convective towers, visible on the dryline far to our east, could grow into supercells.  We also had an unusual but reasonable chance to intercept the "second-phase" event via I-80—a … [Read more...]

First Alma Nocturnal

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A wide-angle view of the southern Nebraska night reveals a strangely sculpted supercell in dramatic shape, its ambient anvil region festooned with an encircling moat of radial high-cloud textures.  This was the first of two magnificently constructed nighttime supercells to roll eastward just to our N on this uniquely special occasion for nocturnal storm observing.  Its otherworldly, breaking-wave … [Read more...]