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
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
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...]
On Pleasant Pond
Autumnal foliage reflects in ripples off quite appropriately named Pleasant Pond, in inland southern Maine. One of my favorite natural visual effects is the near-fractal reflection of vegetation off nearby water, even more so when it involves the changing trees of fall. 1 NW West Sumner ME (1 Oct 22) Looking SE 44.3724, -70.4729 … [Read more...]
Crashing Waves at Bass Harbor Head
Marking the entrance to the fishing port of Bass Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, the Bass Harbor Head Light has been functional since 1858. Technology has changed greatly, but the new LED lights flash the same brilliant red pattern through the same fourth-order Fresnel Lens installed in 1902, 120 years before this photograph, when the light came from red-glass-covered oil lamp. This facility … [Read more...]
Super (Cell) Crepusculars
Sunsets on the Plains best amaze me with a towering supercell spinning through the warming light, casting crepusculars and their intervening shadows. A "ring of Saturn" anvil rim only made the scene more stunning. Then, just a few minutes later, a vertical view at sunset offered a perspective that was similar, but also dramatically different. The storm along the Oklahoma/Kansas line would move … [Read more...]
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