SkyPix

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

7-11 Lightning: Strike One

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An otherwise innocuous multicell cumulonimbus, drifting through the late twilight sky south of town, began flinging huge and brilliant bolts of lightning between its upper reaches and ground, sometimes extending several horizontal miles away from their source.  This was the first of perhaps a dozen I saw, and half as many that I was able to photograph.  Each one was spectacular, one after another, … [Read more...]

Rainbow from Above

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Ascending on an Atlanta-bound curve northwestward from Fort Lauderdale, this surprising scene appeared for about three seconds--fortunately, just enough time to aim and fire with an already-focused and gripped camera.   We don't often experience the novelty of peering downward at a rain shower with just the right sunlight and angle of view to catch a below-horizon segment of a rainbow! over … [Read more...]

Electric Scythe in the Sky

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Fingers of deadly amperage extend most of the way groundward from their source high in the middle to upper levels of an oncoming thunderstorm.   Most such "crawlers" extend horizontally for many miles, but somehow this path of least resistance led almost to the surface. 3 SSW Altus, OK (26 April 14) Looking NW 34.5953, -99.3516 … [Read more...]

Wave Reflections at Sunset

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A wonderful sunset sky of western orange and overhead indigo reflected off the lake's surface as abstract art in motion. This was a scene when I spent as much time looking down as up, despite my innate urge to gaze skyward. Much of the wonderment there wasn't only in the colors or the light effects, but also, in the nearly hypnotic blinking of cool and warm glows, at random, across the view. If I … [Read more...]

Blowing off Steam

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Sulfurous vapors hiss forth from cobbled vents and waft ceaselessly across the denuded countryside of Hverir, a geothermal area associated with past fissure eruptions in Iceland's Krafla volcanic system. Where relatively lacking of people, and when looking certain directions, these lands offer a primordial time travel into the blistering furnaces of the Earth surface's formation. 3 E … [Read more...]

Ice Tree Coming after You

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Rising from the tangled mess of an ice storm, this creepy tree assumes a menacing pose, as if a predatory monster looming overhead, ready to snatch us up and commit unspoken and unspeakable evil.  Fortunately for nightmare-prone children the world over, this tree remained exactly as it looked, frozen in place, with the glint of sunlight refracting through the icy crust encasing every twig, … [Read more...]