Attention All Cloudspotters
You can’t look around when you’re looking up, so we’ve had a look around for you.
If you have cloud news that you think we should include here, please email it to us at: news@cloudappreciationsociety.org.
Cloud Appreciation Society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, is very excited to be giving an illustrated clouds talk at the first ever Words in The Park festival that is taking place over the weekend of 19-20 May in London’s beautiful Holland Park. …read more…
We are fast approaching a new milestone in the development of the society: 30,000 members. But we have also just past another. The number of people who “like” the Cloud Appreciation Society Facebook Page has just exceeded 10,000. It is …read more…
On Saturday 5 May, we were invited onto BBC Breakfast to chat about the Society’s new book, ‘Clouds That Look Like Things’. The BBC invited viewers to send in thier own photographs of clouds in the shape of things. Amongst …read more…
It is the start of a new month, and the end of another day: Go to Cloud of The Month for May…
Artists Rob and Nick Carter recently contacted us about their latest body of work. It plays on the transient nature of light and form and, they say, also creates a dialogue about the ephermeral aspect of art. The Carters have …read more…
For those who have come to our site as a result of hearing about our new Clouds That Look Like Things book, here is where we post these images along with all the other cloud lookalikes that we receive: clouds …read more…
It’s a beautiful example of ‘cloud iridescence’ and you can see it here: April’s Cloud of the Month…
This was spotted on the National Geographic Daily News website with a story entitled “NASA Rockets Make Weird Clouds Near Edge of Space”. The effect is caused as chemicals react with water and oxygen in the atmosphere to create the …read more…
Amanda Murphy discovered this LP whilst at work. It is by British songwriter Graham de Wilde and is aptly named ‘Clouds’ We haven’t heard it and it’s currently out of print but maybe one to look out for. If you …read more…
Storm Dunlop, the distinguished author and weather photographer – and Cloud Appreciation Society Member No. 0030 – mentioned us in a short piece for Oxford Univeristy Press about the public’s difficulty in remembering the names of clouds. The piece was …read more…
Cloud Appreciation Society member, Peter Kaiser from Vienna sent us this link to stunning indoor clouds that were created by artist Berndnaut Smilde. He uses smoke machines combined with lighting and interior atmospheric conditions along with meticulous experimentation to create …read more…
Musician Brian Spence released his new album On the Mend on January 3rd 2012. We think that the cover photograpy is spectacular. It is an image of crepuscular rays and was taken by Angela Craggs.
We have teamed up with our friends at WeatherVideoHD.tv to bring you a beautiful new DVD of stunning time-lapse cloud sequences, which is called ‘A Fantasia for Clouds’. Not only are the clouds relaxing and mesmerising to watch, the time-lapse …read more…
Tomorrow (on Wendesday 7 March) society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, will be giving an illustrated talk about clouds at a literary festival in the Lake District, in the north of England. Part of the Words By The Water festival that is …read more…
A stunning fog formation on the coast of Florida, US, is our Cloud of the Month for March. This dramatic wave effect made media headlines around the world. Well done to photographer, J.R. Hott, for capturing such a rare and …read more…
Diana Willcox, Secretary of the Macclesfield Astronimical Society has asked us to let you know about an upcoming talk on Red Sprites. It will take place on Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 at 20.00 at Hulley’s, Astrozeneca in Macclesfield. The speaker, …read more…
Tom Benjamin currently has a solo exhibition running at the St Anne’s Gallery in Lewes called “In the Service of Clouds”. Alex Leith of Viva Lewes Magazine says “He’s a great painter, in the impressionist mode, who does all his …read more…
firstsite is a contemporary art gallery in Colchester. Jes Fernie, Associate Curator of the gallery recently contacted us about their current exhibition, Equivalents. The exhibition, selected by the artist Steven Claydon, contains a series of cloud studies painted by Constable …read more…
We received an email recently from Emily Morus-Jones with a photograph of a cloud in the shape of a heart. Quite a few heart-shaped clouds have been sent in to the society photo gallery over the years, but this one …read more…
Cloud Appreciation Society member, H Brown, recently sent us the link to the Met Office publication “Cloud Types for Observers”. This is an extremely good classification source and will be interesting for all cloud enthusiasts. It can be found on …read more…
Our mugs are just back from the printers and they are great. Now you know what to drink your tea from when you are out cloudspotting in the garden. Go to the Cloud Shop to see our Cloud Appreciation Society …read more…
We know how all you cloudspotters out there are reluctant to do the washing up because you don’t have tea towels to be proud of. We know what problems this can cause with your friends and partners. Well now that …read more…
We’ve got a few left of society’s Cloud Calendar, 2012. So, in the long tradition of February calendar discounts, we now have them on sale at half price: just £4.99 each (+ postage/shipping). Each month of the Cloud Calendar features …read more…
Mike Sharp’s image of lightning over Penang, Malaysia is a beauty, and so receives the highest honour of cloud photographs sent in to us during the past month: it becomes February’s Cloud of The Month.
Landscape Treks are a small company who guide people to wild locations in the UK’s mountains to experience superb scenery, capture stunning images and above all, enjoy being in the great outdoors. If you would like to join one of …read more…
Barbara Felicetti of Ardmore, PA recently drew our attention to this article on the New Scientist website by their CultureLab editor, Kate Austen who was lucky enough to visit the experimental sci-art gallery “Le Laboratoire” in Paris to view these …read more…
Cloud enthusiast HelmutVölter recently contacted us about an exhibition he curated for The Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland entitled “Cloud Studies – The Sicentific View of the Sky”. The exhibition is currently running until 12th February 2012. The exhibition contains a …read more…
…and it’s a beauty. Not only does Ryan Verwest’s photograph show one of our favourite cloud types, the lenticularis cloud, it also shows the beautiful rainbow colours that can result from the sunlight passing through a cloud’s edges. Not all …read more…
Frequent visitors to the society Cloud Gallery will be familiar with the beautiful and dramatic ‘Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds’, which look like a series of breaking waves and often appear in a line of beautiful vortices. Normally, these formations are spotted amongst …read more…
We would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to all our members – both old and new. And to get you in the mood, we’ve picked out a few festive clouds that look things from the society photography gallery:
After a long absence from the website, we have now reinstated our Cloud of the Month. This is where, each month, we simply choose our favourite cloud photograph from the society’s amazing photo gallery. The Cloud of the Month for …read more…
Esther Swift, leader of the Clouds Harp Quartet recently contacted us as she has written and recorded a five movement piece entitled ‘Clouds’for the harp quartet. They recently completed their first UK tour to promote this, their debut CD, and …read more…
Mary Cooper, Member Number 23844, has been in touch to tell us that an art exhibition currently showing at the Tate Britain in London, UK, might be of interest to cloudspotters. Mary told us that “there is a whole room …read more…
Several members have alerted us to a growing number of amateur videos recording strange shifting light effects appearing above Cumulonimbus storm clouds. These dancing patches of brightness appear to be caused by the cloud’s charged water particles moving around in …read more…
In our first book, The Cloudspotter’s Guide, we confidently claimed that the first painter to depict a cloud that looked like something was the 15th Century Italian painter Andrea Mantegna. The Cumulus cloud he painted in the background of his …read more…
We have been working away behind the scenes to set up a new shop system. It now fits in with the look of the rest of the site and, more importantly, is should be easier to use. There is one …read more…
Fellow cloud lover, Kath Hortic has sent us the link to a recently published article on OS Maps Magazine website. It’s a very informative and interesting piece which includes a video showing different cloud types. You can read it here.
Tom Blazier, Member No. 17,468, got in touch to tell us about the Cloud Appreciation Day that he helped organise on 6 August 2011 for his landscape painting society, the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. New Mexico is known …read more…
Earlier this summer, Sally McKenna (Cloud Appreciation Society Member No. 20,711) organised ‘The First Irish Cloud Festival’ in the West Cork region of Ireland. The idea was conceived in conjunction with Hans Wieland (Member No. 27,412) to bring together Irish …read more…
If you’ve taken a look at the society’s cloud photo gallery recently, you might have noticed that it has changed. We’ve been working feverishly in the background to update the gallery system and introduce some improvements that we hope you …read more…
