Thanks Hans. It did not occur to me that the could in the first picture be a fallstreak hole, it looked like two separate clouds. About the second picture, I work on the 16th floor of the southernmost office building in Manhattan with occasional access to outside windows. Yes, the view is wide, but being inside creates other problems, like reflections on the window glass. There was a time when I could go on top of the building, 50 stories high. That was a fantastic view. But they closed that security gap.
Here is a shot I took today. I liked the dark grey clouds on the lighter grey background. (In the picture it looks a little blue, but I saw it as grey.) Only later I noticed the halo. It would have been nice to have that patch of light directly on the Statue of Liberty, but it was moving he wrong way. If I only had been there 10 minutes earlier :-)
