[Click Image to Enlarge] Panoramas capture double rainbows at their fullest and grandest, at no time more so than just before sunset, when the bows are as near to a semicircle at ground level as possible. This near the end of the solar day, the entire rainbow reddens and yellows in the warm light, along with the rest of the sky and landscape. That renders the purple and blue inner parts (inner … [Read more...]
Framed Iridescence
Much too early in the day for sunset light, these colors peeking through a cloud gap suggested just one thing: iridescence (which can manifest as many colors). Somehow, direct sunlight caught small pieces of midlevel clouds at higher elevations than the larger fractocumulus, towering cumulus, and nimbostratus. The sea of intervening clouds parted long enough, just a minute, to create a window … [Read more...]
Close Boom
Flash to thunder, less than a second elapsed. That percussion was intense, too -- very loud, stereoscopically door-slamming type of boom, felt as much as heard. It was past time to go back inside. With the benefit of a later close-up examination of this image, the contact area could be located behind both the red-roofed building and the first tree at its rear, but ahead of the next trees to the … [Read more...]
Quinter Blow
Quinter and its vicinity are best known among storm chasers for a series of tornadoes almost 18 years earlier, on a day I couldn't head out due to having an evening shift. So with me, a long history of intercepting destructive bows and outflow-dominant supercells in northwestern Kansas has earned it a reputation for ridiculously severe thunderstorm winds -- few manifesting more picturesque than … [Read more...]
Burn Scar, Black Canyon
Exactly one year before, the photo here would have been much different, and not legally possible. The notorious South Rim Fire was toasting vegetation along the south rim of the Black Canyon, causing the park to be evacuated and closed. On the 10th, a dry thunderstorm's CG lightning activity ignited that and at least ten other fires. Though no people were killed, nonhuman casualties included … [Read more...]
Cold Summer Sundown
How do we get a cold sunset in an otherwise warm and droughty summer? Go up to 12,000 feet in altitude! That's what we did on this memorable day, just a few weeks after the solstice, when sunset still was late and setting behind a northern knob of the distant Gore Range (made to look close by a deep zoom). Just the tiniest pinpoint of direct sunshine beamed into the lens through a notch in the … [Read more...]
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