SkyPix

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

Indirect Sunrise Color

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This would become a spectacular sunrise over Mount Desert Island, but was well on its way even here.  The sun still was below the horizon, even from the perspective of the altocumulus and altostratus cloud deck's underside!  So how did it redirect such a rusty, chocolate-red tint?  This was all indirect light, reflected from distant, unseen, directly lit clouds over the horizon and far out over … [Read more...]

Maine Coast Moonrise

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Rising across a colorful, textured twilight sky, the waxing moon refracted a partial lunar corona through a passing, rippled cirrostratus undulatus cloud, all while reflecting enchantingly off the Atlantic Ocean surface.  Waves crashed across the hard igneous and metamorphic boulders, adding audio to the dazzling visuals, and feathered fringes to this short time exposure.  How fortunate and … [Read more...]

Stormy Peach and Turquoise

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With this significantly severe supercell's back side still blasting Belle Fourche, the front end churned east-southeast quickly.  Its mesocyclone region, at center-right, was a roiling cauldron of rain, hail, wind, and perhaps more, inside broad and obvious rotation.  Condensation near ground level can be seen beyond the low ridge in the distance, and yes, some of it appeared to be turning.  … [Read more...]

Undular Mountain View

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Ridges and summits of the southern White Mountains, as seen from the 6,288-foot summit, rippled off into the distance, where (unlike the clear blue you don't see overhead) thick cirrus occupied that sky sector near the horizon.  Although it was a calm, clear day atop Mt. Washington, a deep zoom through the thickest part of the troposphere maximized the sight path through particulates in the … [Read more...]

Shadow Patterns, Mt. Orne Covered Bridge

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As I walked through Mt. Orne Covered Bridge, a sudden sense struck:  I've not seen something quite like this pattern before.  Sunlight filtered through wall gaps at just the right time of day, to get light and shadows at perpendicular angles to the floorboards.  Astride the Connecticut River and the New Hampshire/Vermont border, this is one of a small but growing collection of images I've been … [Read more...]

Central Kansas Electric Power

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Nothing to do with any utility, these still were powerful blasts of electricity in central Kansas—hence the title.  The front flank of an elongated, line-embedded supercell erupted with several of these brilliant, forked discharges in the same general area, before getting unsafely close.  If this sparky storm's lightning amperage were able to be harnessed and stored, it could have powered the … [Read more...]