SkyPix

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

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...]

On Pleasant Pond

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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

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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

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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...]

Atlantic Moon, Acadia

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A fitting conclusion to our last night in Acadia National Park, this marvelous moonlight scene, with ocean reflection, bid a fond farewell.  Whether here, at the Great Lakes, or night-fishing on Gulf Coast piers and Keys bridges (sorry, no photos!), some great memories arise from expansive moonlit waters. 5 SSE Bar Harbor ME (6 Oct 22) Looking ESE 44.3203, -68.1893 … [Read more...]

Second Santa Fe Sunset: Zoom

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[Part 2 of 2]  Zooming far into sectors of a sunset sky offers unique compositions that can vary vastly from the wide-angle or standard (about 50 mm) focal-length perspectives.  This brings out detailed texturing of an altostratus deck's underbelly, backdropping a segment of a sun pillar.  From just a couple minutes before, a wide-angle sky view to the west and southwest is seen in Part 1.  Every … [Read more...]