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Route 66 Arcus

2021-07-26 By Roger Edwards

Route 66 Arcus

Here’s a rare opportunity: standing astride a state border while shooting a scenic cloud formation, with an iconic symbol in the foreground.  Behind me, in New Mexico, the road soon went to unimproved gravel and gully-washed dirt, miserably deteriorated from its heyday, and in disappointingly poor condition for such a historically important strand of Americana.  Fortunately, the best part of the shelf cloud was emerging from the High Plains Caprock to the southeast and south, across the Texas stretch of Route 66.

Glenrio TX/NM (30 Jun 21) Looking ENE
35.1787, -103.0424

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow Tagged With: arcus, clouds, convection, Glenrio, Great Plains, highways, landscapes, New Mexico, offbeat, shelf cloud, state lines, storms, Texas, Texas Panhandle, thunderstorms, 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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