SkyPix

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

Multivortex in the Bear’s Cage

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While driving S to get ahead of a virulently rotating, rain-wrapped mesocyclone, the curtains parted just enough to reveal a stout cone tornado with multiple vortices buzzing around its base. Seldom do scenes of rain-wrapped tornadoes offer so much color: a pronounced turquoise hue permeating the deep load of precipitation aloft, the green grass in the distance, and the red earth and stubble of … [Read more...]

Gateway Arch in the Mist

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Still a spectacular monument and impressive feat of construction after over 40 years atop the St. Louis skyline, the Gateway Arch is one of the most photographed structures in the world. Nonetheless, never have I seen it depicted from this vantage, in the rain and mist, at night. So when I noticed it this way during a walk downtown, there was no option but to grab my gear and set up for a shoot. … [Read more...]

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...]