SkyPix

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

Late Light at Vesturhorn

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One road to a land of dreamscapes began where the Vesturhorn range meets tidal wetlands, leading through a thin coastal fog and around a bend to the deepening golden light of the sunset hour.   This was a moment as much as a place, and only can be revisited in loose approximation.  In that moment, nothing else mattered besides its ephemeral beauty and overt, extrinsic transcendence.  The glorious … [Read more...]

Rock Rain

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Having been rounded smooth by wave action then hurled high on an Olympic National Park beach during Washington's winter storms, these pebbles lie passively, occasionally collecting spots from raindrops, as they await either the collector's pocket or more sorting within the next cool season's intrusions of pounding surf. 2 NW Queets WA (13 Jul 6) Looking SE 47.5655, -124.362 … [Read more...]

Drippage

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Meltwater, dripping profusely from the edge of a Jokulsarlon iceberg, metaphorically represents all kinds of concepts to the thinker, from the scientifically controversial to the artistically abstract.  One's mind can run amok in the possibilities, and mine nearly did.   Instead, such a runaway train of thought braked upon meeting the simple beauty of the moment, a compulsion to shut down the … [Read more...]

Derailed

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We don't often see the undercarriage of rail-freight cars, but a complex of severe thunderstorms the prior night shoved these over and permitted just such a view.  The crosswinds here were unknown in strength but likely severe; 82-mph gusts occurred a few miles south of nearby York.  The storms responsible for this mess began the prior afternoon over eastern Colorado and hurled a broad swath of … [Read more...]

Edge of Dettifoss

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Raw, intense, undammed, untamed, natural as can be:  the largest river that drains the largest glacier in Iceland plunges 144 feet over a basalt ledge in a roaring torrent powerful enough to feel underfoot as low-frequency vibrations a hundred yards distant.  Nary a rope or guardrail is to be found; step a step too far and you die, your fault, period.  The wholly uninhibited character of the place … [Read more...]

Baily’s Beads

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On the other side of an annular eclipse from the first crescent sun, the visual edges of the lunar and solar discs became juxtaposed, rendering a beaded edge for just a few seconds.  This phenomenon, which also shows up during total solar eclipses, is known as Baily's beads after its 1836 documentation by Francis Baily.  The rough terrain of the moon differentially blocks sunlight, breaking up the … [Read more...]