These rings of delicate pastel colours around the Sun can be caused by the tiny particles of a cloud…
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March 24, 2021
March 23, 2021
Joseph Sweeney, member 54,778, an artist from Pennsylvania was inspired by a landscape in Delaware to paint “Farm on New Road” a 30 x 40″ pastel.
March 19, 2021
Terry Alby, member 40,752, wrote this poem for our Gallery Editor, Ian Loxley. He told us it’s about old photographers who love all the beauty that abounds and has the alternative titles of “Old Photographer’s Don’t Die Young!” or “Don’t Blame the Lens”
March 16, 2021
Joe Jennings, of Skydive.tv shows us how to take cloudspotting to the next level…
March 12, 2021
Artist, Paul Bennett (Member 47271), was recently able to exhibit his paintings at Gallery Lane Cove in Sydney. It was a successful show and his catalogue is now available to view online.
March 9, 2021
Lorra Rudman sent us several of her poems but this one, entitled “Underdog”, is her favourite and was written in 1984.
Underdog
Cloudy is the underdog
Who dresses all in grey
But has she not the right to joy
As any Sunny day?
She reaches out her rolling strength
To charge me full and strong
To lift me high on passion arms
To nurture me along.
The rays of Sun are always warm
He’s simple to define
But Cloudy’s the romantic one
Whose dark deserves to shine.
© Lorra Rudman 1984
March 5, 2021
Daniel Thomas, Society member 55,137, sent us this video shot last summer just before a storm.
March 2, 2021
Debra Dolinski, member 6,561, is a talented sky watercolour artist and has been a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society for many years.
February 26, 2021
It’s all happening in this cloudscape spotted by Jan Curtis over Wyoming, US. This is a big sky with a big name that reveals the invisible airflows high above…
February 26, 2021
Daryl Johnson, member 45193, is an artist based in New Orleans. This painting is called “Clouds Wrapping” 24 x 48″ oils on canvas and was inspired by how clouds can be so dynamic and seem to cause the earth to breath.
February 23, 2021
Mark Robert Ugland sent us this poem. He told us “one of the best parts of life is looking up!”
February 19, 2021
Ellen Ryan of Philadelphia, PA, heard about the Cloud Appreciation Society on the NY Times’ The Daily Podcast recently. The piece reminded her of this composition that she hadn’t thought about in decades.
February 17, 2021
When The Daily podcast from the NYT featured the Cloud Appreciation Society recently, they told the story of how we helped identify a new classification of cloud…
February 16, 2021
Tom Maloney lives in an area of Colorado known as the Wet Mountain Valley. From his front deck, he can see a sweeping panorama of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. And of course, the sky above it. He recorded this time lapse video in May last year.
February 12, 2021
Rick Shaefer, member 54,615, is an artist who describes himself as “primarily a bread-and-butter Cumulus man. But do spread the tent sometimes”.
February 9, 2021
The Sam Handwich Band heard about us on the New York Times “The Daily” podcast. They told us they were amazed that something like our Society exists and wanted to share their music video with us, because it’s full of wonderful cloud images!
February 5, 2021
Paul Reddick, member 52,023, sent this lyric that he wrote for a friend who composes for, and runs an amateur women’s choir in Toronto.
February 2, 2021
Gregory Venarsky, member 48,157, sent us this relaxing timelapse of Spring clouds over his old him, Kennewick, Washington, USA.
January 29, 2021
Sybille Jones recently sent her digital viewpoint of clouds, which she created using Sketchbook.
January 26, 2021
May Blythe of London, UK, wrote this poem on a very windy day in Lyme Regis, looking out over the sea in-between Golden Cap and the Cobb.
January 22, 2021
Cloud of the Month for January shows the twisting heart of a mighty storm system…
January 21, 2021
Often thought of as the enemies of aurora watchers, clouds can in fact add beauty to a sky of Northern Lights as this video by Olivier Staiger shows…
January 20, 2021
Regina Calton Burchett, member 51261, recently finished this painting of clouds above the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina
January 19, 2021
Caroline Sullivan sent us this poem written whilst she was a member of a poetry group as she felt people failed to notice our beautiful skies.
January 15, 2021
Sabino de Bari is a composer and guitarist who recently released a decacorde (10 strings classical guitar) album, Nubes, which is inspired by clouds.
January 12, 2021
This timelapse video was sent in by Massimiliano Squadroni, and was filmed in the Sibillini Mountains National Park (central Italy) in December 2020
January 8, 2021
A poem about clouds that look like things submitted by Hilary Thurston, member 54048
January 5, 2021
Vanessa Norris was gifted a membership by her sibling. She is based in Boston, MA and makes cloud themed pottery.
December 29, 2020
Marilyn Boyd (Member 45,180) got in touch to tell us about about the latest video from Colorado Springs based storm, sky and nature photographer, Rob Hoff…
December 26, 2020
Thomas Cowles, member 49393, painted this looming cumulonimbus a number of years ago while visiting New Mexico, USA
December 22, 2020
Nomad Ovunc, member 53117, and his wife are touring musicians in the US, and regularly criss-cross the country. Whenever they see a beautiful sky, they stop the car and take a photo.
December 18, 2020
Artist, Jeanette M Maddix, sent us this atmospheric pastel “Stormy Sky Over the Mesa”.
December 15, 2020
Matthew Durrant, member 51,720, filmed this timelapse whilst cloudspotting on Harris in the outer Hebrides.
December 10, 2020
What happens when a cloud blurs a rainbow? Find out in the Cloud of the Month for December…
December 8, 2020
Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his cloud inspired poem, “The Cloud Watcher”
December 4, 2020
Artist, Amy Szwaya, sent us this pastel painting of a September storm in the distance above Wisconsin.
December 1, 2020
Sohil Pothiawala sent us this time-lapse videos of dark clouds over central Singapore filmed at 1700hrs on 2nd November 2020
November 27, 2020
Saulius Vaitiekunas, member 50,307, feels a very important part of this installation is the light and shadows.
November 24, 2020
Isabell T VanMerlin, member 50,870, sent us this painting that her aunt created in the 1960s. Caroline Whiting Fellows was a commercial photographer in New York in the 1930s
November 19, 2020
This timelapse filmed by James Chambers on October 25 2020, shows the development of an arcus cloud over Rosevale, which is south-west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. An arcus, which is also known as a shelf cloud, is like the front base of a Cumulonimbus storm cloud. Read more about our November Cloud of The Month.
