SkyPix

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

Brule Blow

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A bountiful storm-intercept day concluded with an outflow-surfing, heavy-precipitation storm driving a multi-tiered shelf cloud before it, as if snowplowing the moist and unstable air it consumed.  Shortly after sunset, the marvelous pastels of twilight emerged above and along the formation.  This manner of subtle yet somewhat surreal front-lighting is why early twilight is one of my favorite … [Read more...]

Big Bend Discharge

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  Late May usually is a hot time down in Big Bend country, but an active southern-stream pattern that flooded much of the southern Plains kept the southwest Texas deserts well-soaked also.   The back side of one of the responsible storm clusters sliced the sky with this lightning bolt, after its other end ran us off the Rio Grande. 26 ESE Terlingua TX (21 May 15) Looking S 29.2651, … [Read more...]

Twisted Perspective

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Quite simply, this was one of the most stunning supercells I've ever witnessed.  That's saying something, out of many hundreds overall and at least a couple dozen that offered mesmerizing, jaw-dropping structure.  Given that this was a wide-angle view, a substantial fraction of the sky appeared to be spiraling upward into the lofty netherworlds.   A jury selected this image for exhibit at the 2015 … [Read more...]

Misty Astoria

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Seldom does one get to look down from ground level toward cloud base, but that was the case on this damp Pacific Northwest evening.  Drizzle fell on the residential hillside overlooking downtown Astoria, the Columbia River estuary and the U.S. 101 bridge, as the cloud base tilted downward from my location across the river.  This was a most relaxing, soothing scene, one worthy not only of … [Read more...]

Wild Florida

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The broad, moist plain known as the Everglades supports a mixture of tropical and midlatitude wildlife unmatched elsewhere in the world.  That includes this egret and alligator, eyes fixated on each other as a meal and a menace, respectively.  This uneasy balance between predator and prey makes a good metaphor for that between vitality and utility across all the glades.  It depends on the slow … [Read more...]

Foggy Backwater

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Back behind the beaches of the Strait of Juan de Fuca lay a calm backwater, cool and still in the fog of early morning.  Old mooring timbers, trees and reflections of them all diffused into a ghostly scene reminiscent more of a painting than either a photograph or eyewitness experience.  Only the distant sound of gentle surf entered this otherwise silent world, an unseen whisper from somewhere to … [Read more...]