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Overhead Expulsion

2020-09-06 By Roger Edwards

Overhead Expulsion

As the last sunlight reddened and brilliantly illuminated its midsection, the richly colored and textured, upper-level cloud protuberance continued to thrust westward and directly overhead from a cluster of convection.  Gaps allowed blue-sky light to pass through, rendering a marvelously three-dimensional view for a two-dimensional photograph.  In its form, this narrowly focused, backshear expulsion of anvil-level cloud material reminded me of an intermittent steam geyser’s belching, or an expansive, exploded stellar nebula.

2 NW Ord NE (3 Jun 20) Looking overhead
41.6307, -98.954

Filed Under: Sunsets and Sunrises Tagged With: backshear, clouds, convection, Great Plains, mammatus, Nebraska, Ord, storms, sunsets, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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