Deep-zooming into a series of thick cirrus bands at sunset yielded a marvelous melange of orange tones, with the nearer sky more muted and bluer in shadows. Though the field of view was limited, it was far from limiting; in fact, elements of the sky normally overlooked at wide angle or even a “normal” 50-mm focal perspective become a greater parts of the picture, and allow deeper examination an appreciation of their finer details. Among those details were the small, baggy formations dangling from the middle bands—miniaturized mammatus that raced along with their parent cloud formation in the jet stream of fast flow aloft.
Norman OK (10 Mar 16) Looking WSW
35.1814, -97.44Western Banded Brilliance
Deep-zooming into a series of thick cirrus bands at sunset yielded a marvelous melange of orange tones, with the nearer sky more muted and bluer in shadows. Though the field of view was limited, it was far from limiting; in fact, elements of the sky normally overlooked at wide angle or even a “normal” 50-mm focal perspective become a greater parts of the picture, and allow deeper examination an appreciation of their finer details. Among those details were the small, baggy formations dangling from the middle bands—miniaturized mammatus that raced along with their parent cloud formation in the jet stream of fast flow aloft.
Norman OK (10 Mar 16) Looking WSW
35.1814, -97.44