Cloudscapes Volume VIII
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November 21, 2023 at 7:26 pm #589474Ruth QuistParticipant
Hope I have started this new volume correctly. Here goes #8, I love this thread myself.
Caterpillar in the Sky
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November 21, 2023 at 8:43 pm #589497Angela SwanParticipant
Love your caterpillar, Ruth. Here is a snail for a bit of company 😊
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November 22, 2023 at 11:54 pm #589593Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Thanks for a fun launch to Volume VIII, Ruth! Like your Caterpillar in the Sky, I can’t wait to see what emerges in this set. Also, congratulations on your shimmering crepuscular rays photo being chosen for Cloud of the Day (Nov 9, 2023) and Misty Morning in Montana on the gallery last month.
And what a fine Snail you snagged there, Angela! It may take a while for it to cross the sky. Not because it’s necessarily a slow slider, but rather because the sky is SO BIG!
It’s a Bird!
It’s a Plane!
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November 24, 2023 at 10:58 am #589778Hans StockerParticipant
Great start of this new volume with your caterpillar, Ruth. Also a very interesting cloud with these spikes. And a great snail by Angela.
To continue Keelin’s sequence:
It’s a Bird!
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December 10, 2023 at 6:21 pm #591297Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, double Pileus, wow. Plus, birds and an airplane.
Catching some Light
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December 15, 2023 at 5:03 pm #591925Ruth QuistParticipant
Jumping Up and Down
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December 23, 2023 at 12:35 am #593070Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Catching some Light is a frosty beauty, Ruth. And it’s back to you, Hans!
It’s a Moon!
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January 5, 2024 at 9:18 pm #594396Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, fine speck of a moon.
Big Boy
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January 8, 2024 at 6:21 pm #594592Ruth QuistParticipant
May Be Velum?
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January 14, 2024 at 7:44 pm #595053Ruth QuistParticipant
Sky Wall Coverings
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January 14, 2024 at 7:46 pm #595054Ruth QuistParticipant
Sky Wall Coverings
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January 14, 2024 at 10:49 pm #595067Ruth QuistParticipant
Sorry about the double photo. Got too excited about hitting the submit button.
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February 16, 2024 at 8:07 pm #597486Ruth QuistParticipant
Jumping For Cloud Joy
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February 17, 2024 at 3:22 am #597512Michael LerchParticipant
Arizona CloudScape
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February 19, 2024 at 1:10 am #597695Patricia L KeelinParticipant
So much happening your skies there and there, Ruth and Michael.
With current storms, we finally have more action here too…
Winking Owl
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February 20, 2024 at 6:08 pm #597878Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, nice Cloudscape.
Keelin, your owl is perfect. One of my favorite birds to photograph, if they can stay still.
Layered Cake
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February 21, 2024 at 5:39 am #597916Michael LerchParticipant
Another Arizona Cloudscape
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February 23, 2024 at 9:47 pm #598133Ruth QuistParticipant
Looking West Last Evening
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February 28, 2024 at 7:17 pm #598587Ruth QuistParticipant
Boy It Is Cold Out There
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March 10, 2024 at 4:07 am #599374Michael LerchParticipant
Ruth that looks like snow..One thing about the Pineapple Monsoon here, is the rain is warm, coming up from the subtropics.
Another Arizona Cloudscape
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March 14, 2024 at 4:40 pm #599633Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, some clouds just look mean.
Dancing on the Mountains
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March 15, 2024 at 12:15 am #599648Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Michael, Another Arizona Cloudscape (2/21) is simply luscious. And Ruth, I love the way you brave the COLD! to share your frosty fields with us. Stunning!
In the Mood for a Smoothie?
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March 23, 2024 at 7:14 pm #600203Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, great looking and likely tasty Smoothie. Nice Gallery photo last Monday. An exciting Cumulonimbus.
Cotton Pads
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April 6, 2024 at 4:53 pm #601110Ruth QuistParticipant
Quiet for Birds
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April 17, 2024 at 5:31 pm #601833Ruth QuistParticipant
A Little Rain Must Fall
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April 19, 2024 at 5:56 pm #602028Ruth QuistParticipant
A Hole in the Sky
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April 26, 2024 at 5:21 pm #602541Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Ruth, I love the feeling of the big downpour in A Little Rain Must Fall.
I suspect there would be some of that wet stuff in this one too. It looks as if someone had taken a pinking sheers to the top edge.
A Little More Rain
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April 26, 2024 at 5:22 pm #602542Patricia L KeelinParticipant
This view is from the window seat en route home from a few weeks in Colorado. While caring for my sister post-surgery, we were both buoyed by the clouds both above our heads and by photos shared on the CAS’s pages, ever inspiring and good reminders to keep looking up. ;)
Above the Rockies
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May 2, 2024 at 4:41 pm #603200Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, nice view from above. That is probably the best thing about flying.
Cloud spotting: The Best Simple Pleasure
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May 4, 2024 at 6:54 pm #603401Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Oh so true, Ruth — cloud spotting is the best. Free and freeing!
Above and Below
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May 16, 2024 at 8:08 pm #604567Paula BaileyParticipant
Vertical cloudscape from me. Yesterday’s and today’s skies have been very busy in the afternoons with all sorts of nonsense going on. This morning we were under the mood of the nimbostratus but this afternoon everything else came out to dance again.
Portsmouth, UK, looking towards The Solent, a body of water between us and the Isle of Wight (beyond which is the English Channel / La Manche). I think that cumulus congestus in the distance is building over the water.
Lots more isolated cirrus behind me, and those cloudlets at the top were smaller than my outstretched pinky so I’m calling cirrocumulus.
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May 17, 2024 at 6:17 am #604620Michael LerchParticipant
Arizona Cloudscape
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May 17, 2024 at 7:53 pm #604679Ruth QuistParticipant
Paula, so nice to see your big cloud grouping.
Michael, a gang of mamma!
Almost Missed These Guys
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May 22, 2024 at 5:10 pm #605172Ruth QuistParticipant
A PLUS Size Cloud
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May 26, 2024 at 6:35 am #605435Michael LerchParticipant
Arizona Cloudscape
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May 26, 2024 at 6:24 pm #605457Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, great Cloudscape.
Rack’m Stack’m
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May 29, 2024 at 1:45 pm #605756Paula BaileyParticipant
I’ve been away for a week at a music festival. We had unsettled weather and therefore some wonderful skies. We arrived under a nimbo stratus and from the following day onwards it was just a few showers of varying duration. It remained quite warm with a few windy spells at ground level, and we heard distant thunder but it didn’t reach us.
I’ve made a whole album for them (over 50 photos) and as a new cloudspotter I was absolutely delighted with the variety. Lots of amazing cumulus congestus and so many varieties of cirrus that I’m going to have to make a spreadsheet so I can work them all out! I was even treated to a very faint sundog and some lower level virga.
I have two more festivals this summer, but I’m not sure they’re going to come close to this one for clouds.
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May 29, 2024 at 1:54 pm #605758Paula BaileyParticipant
The following day there was this. I’ve seen loads of sundogs in my life but never photographed them. This was taken around 6.30pm (I’m in the UK by the way). One little sundog, cirrus having a huge party in the background, and some incredible cumulus congestus that you can just see behind the trees, bottom left. They were incredible but even my full photo of them (in the album) does not do them justice. What I could see with my eyes was stunning, but zooming in on my mobile phone just flattened the scene. It was like a city carved into a mountain.
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June 5, 2024 at 10:03 pm #606426Ruth QuistParticipant
Paula, so nice to see your photos.
Lewis and Clark Territory
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June 6, 2024 at 5:59 am #606448Michael LerchParticipant
Paula ,it is good to see you having so much fun with clouds! Nice shot Ruth!
Arizona Cloudscape
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June 8, 2024 at 11:04 pm #606781Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Michael, love the layered scene you shared on May 26. And Ruth, that is one formidable cloud in PLUS Size! Splendid cirrocumulus you captured, Paula.
Bedabbled
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June 12, 2024 at 8:50 pm #607161Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, maybe even bed head. Very cool photo my friend.
Day Dreaming
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June 21, 2024 at 5:15 am #607899Michael LerchParticipant
Another Arizona Cloudscape
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June 21, 2024 at 10:32 pm #607959Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, nice cloudscape. Like an open window.
Lake Front Property
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June 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm #608455Ruth QuistParticipant
Steps Up To The Sky
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July 10, 2024 at 5:43 pm #609932Ruth QuistParticipant
Down the Runway. 
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July 23, 2024 at 1:17 am #611303Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Thanks, Ruth. You found the perfect spot for Daydreaming — that is if you can close your eyes to the skies even for a moment!
Michael, that is one beckoning view to the blue.
All Out of Medium
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July 30, 2024 at 5:21 pm #612124Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, lovely textures you spotted.
Splash of Pink
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August 13, 2024 at 5:21 pm #613603Ruth QuistParticipant
Fingers in the sky
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August 15, 2024 at 7:34 pm #613845Ruth QuistParticipant
Where Cattle Roam
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August 17, 2024 at 3:20 pm #614016Robert PearsonParticipant
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September 8, 2024 at 6:32 pm #616296Ruth QuistParticipant
Robert, wonderful sky you captured.
Clouds on the move.
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September 10, 2024 at 7:22 am #616426Michael LerchParticipant
Nice Big Sky there Ruth!
Another Arizona Cloudscape
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September 15, 2024 at 6:31 pm #617071Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, you have some ripples.
Taking up space with maybe some asperitas sneaking in the photo.
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October 2, 2024 at 5:16 pm #618790Ruth QuistParticipant
A mixed bag.
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October 5, 2024 at 12:48 pm #619751Robert PearsonParticipant
Raining light
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October 11, 2024 at 5:24 pm #620640Ruth QuistParticipant
Robert, nice delicate rain dropping down.
Hanging out with friends.
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October 25, 2024 at 6:07 pm #622765Ruth QuistParticipant
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Facing East </p>
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October 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm #622766Ruth QuistParticipant
Facing East.
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October 25, 2024 at 6:26 pm #622769Ruth QuistParticipant
New phone for me with photos. Apologies for sending out two copies. Looking like a big learning curve. But I do like this morning photo of the Mission Mountain Range. Stratocumulus has got to be my favorite of the main cloud groups.
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October 30, 2024 at 8:23 pm #623386Gregory VenarskyParticipant
Wavy clouds near to a supercell on Illinois taken this past June.
Stormy Waves
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October 30, 2024 at 9:20 pm #623390Gregory VenarskyParticipant
Still might be one of my favorite photos ever taken. The clouds, the water, and the light make this the luckiest shot I have ever had the pleasure of taking.
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November 1, 2024 at 12:54 am #623553Patricia L KeelinParticipant
WOW ~ Ruth, Michael, Robert, Greg! Such amazing and beautiful images here. So grateful for all the sharing of your skies and eyes.
A Change in the Weather
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November 3, 2024 at 1:42 am #623803Gregory VenarskyParticipant
Lovely sky you’ve got there Keelin. I always love a good change in the weather. These photos were quite the abrupt change in the weather. Once again, I happened to take these while storm chasing. And yes, the sky was that blue from all the hail!
My apologies for posting 3 in the same post, I know that’s not what is usually done, but I just had to share all 3 photos at once.
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November 7, 2024 at 10:59 am #624300Hans StockerParticipant
Great wide views over over the mountains, fields, waters and sky in this thread. Love the blues in your impressive shelf clouds Greg. Here is one with blues of a different nature.
Blue Hour
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November 8, 2024 at 3:50 am #624357Gregory VenarskyParticipant
I personally have always loved the blue hour myself Hans. Both types, that is. Something not so blue here, and not something you see every day, but fascinating, nonetheless. A mini banner cloud of all things, about 20 feet from me.
Streaming
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November 19, 2024 at 8:13 pm #625592Ruth QuistParticipant
Gregory, very exciting clouds you have captured. I am thinking you may have needed rain gear.
Hans and Keelin, always nice to see you on these pages.
Vast Sky
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November 22, 2024 at 10:27 pm #625912Roger StoneParticipant
Cloud enthusiasts might like to view Matt and Amy on Florence, sailing around Britain, and in the latest vlog visiting St Kilda. At about 25:00 to 30:00 there is film of sea-cloud rolling in across the island at sea-level and ground-level in a way I don’t think I’ve ever seen. You Tube link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26irlKify-c .
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