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We were sent a book called 'Wind Blown Clouds' compiles by Alec Findlay. With it, he sent the following message: 'Since 1999 I have run an artist participation project titled Wind Blown Clouds, collecting slide photos from around the globe.I am about to publish a 228
Continue ReadingEver looked out the window and wished you knew the name of the clouds looking back at you? Of course you have. Well, help is at hand – in the form of The Skywatcher's Cloud Chart. With photographs and captions by John A Day, author of The
Continue ReadingInspired by Marc Kremers’ sky diary (see below), Valeska Oostrum has started her own, showing the skies above her home village of De Lier in The Netherlands (it is between Rotterdam and The Hague). You can visit Valeska’s sky diary here.
Continue ReadingMarc Kremers, from London, kept a ‘sky diary’ last year. He used his camera phone to take a snap of the sky above him about four times a day over a period of several months. He wanted to see just how grey the skies over
Continue ReadingNo one could agree where they had formed and everyone claimed to have been the photographer. We decided to investigate
Continue ReadingThe question of what music to listen to while gazing at the clouds has finally been solved. Nicolas Reeves, a professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, has invented The Cloud Harp – an instrument that creates music from the shape of the
Continue ReadingWe were very excited to be contacted by the one and only John Day of Oregon, USA. He is commonly known as the Cloudman, as he has devoted his latter years to photographing, enthusing about and explaining the clouds. His website is full of fantastic
Continue ReadingSoon-to-be-member, John Diefenbach, is based in Japan and has filmed the world's last mainline steam trains, which operate in Inner Mongolia. Filming in mid-winter, with temperatures down to -30C, the steam effects, in some cases, are spectacular. We told him that we are cloudspotters, not
Continue ReadingWe were contacted recently by the venerable Jack Borden, Boston TV news reporter turned sky enthusiast. At the age of 45 he woke up from a nap in a nature preserve to see a sky he had never experience in all his previous life. "In
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