SkyPix

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

Third Thunderous Thrust at the Truck Stop

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Traffic on I-35 raced this way and that under the bridge at lower right, heading to and from a high-based thunderstorm that spit out several delightfully loud and photogenic CGs, also including these.   It was a nice way to finish a long day's chase, after driving three hours north to see a small tornado in southern Kansas, and then observing at close range a separate, arguably tornadic supercell … [Read more...]

Spear the Moon

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An already promising, early-stage sunset sky of golden cirrus fibratus (above shaded altostratus) became weird when a fresh contrail appeared to spear the waxing crescent moon!  The plane is a faint dot at the left tip of the "spear".  Of course, this was a fantastic, low-probability, coincidental superposition, thanks to a Boston-to-Paris flight I noticed on a tracking app.  A lot of aviation … [Read more...]

Storm Route: Edwards

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Prior convection to the south, near the Kansas/Oklahoma line, looked promising briefly, but too many cells erupted too close to each other, and things got messy in a hurry.  With a little daylight left, a newer storm erupting just a couple counties to the northwest near the dryline, and no blocking clouds apparent in visuals or satellite imagery in the distant west-northwest, I gambled that an … [Read more...]

Surf Blasting Boulder

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Water versus land:  the continual erosive forces of this interaction mold shorelines across the Earth.  Hard as the igneous and metamorphic rock can be there, coastal Maine is no exception.  The boulder, of course, blows the wave up into millions of drops, as it will the next one of similar magnitude.  Yet the surf in relentless progression, wave by wave, grain by grain, will wear this rock to a … [Read more...]

Direct Sunrise Color

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This spectacularly colored, clean-sky sunrise scene really began with a lot of indirect coloration on the same swath of altocumulus and altostratus, just a few minutes earlier.  As the sun rose above the Atlantic Ocean horizon, from the cloud-level perspective (not yet, here), the direct rays painted red-orange tones of such brilliance that I was tempted to turn down the saturation knob from the … [Read more...]

Crystal Cascades’ Lower Falls

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Here, in autumnal resplendence, washes the lowest in a series of waterfalls along the Ellis River, collectively known as Crystal Cascades.  This stream drains the eastern side of Mount Washington, home of the highest elevation in the northeastern U.S.  Despite the adjoining trail's popularity, the waterfalls were loud enough to drown out most nearby human chatter, making the time spent in the … [Read more...]