Contrail Thread Volume V
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January 5, 2021 at 9:23 am #463658Hans StockerParticipant
Contrail Thread Volume IV ended with a smoke signal. It must have been the sign to start a new volume. And it seems fun to start with the opposite of a contrail: a distrail. Here are two of them and you can see clearly why a distrail can be called a falllstreak hole too.
Distrails
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January 5, 2021 at 6:57 pm #463846Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Thanks for launch, Hans, and what a fun start to Volume V! I’ve just had a stroll through Vol IV to once again appreciate the wild ride and contrail contributions of our cloud colleagues. Your Smoke Signal was one of the best ever and we’ll be watching for more.
Bridge Over The River Sky
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January 6, 2021 at 1:40 am #463890Michael LerchParticipant
Arizona Contrail# 501
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January 8, 2021 at 8:23 pm #464421Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, thanks for starting off a new volume, especially with Distrails. Reminding me of a bird feather.
Keelin, I could certainly walk over your exciting bridge.
Michael , I can see a profile of a man in 501 with a nice shirt collar.Coming Through, Please Move Over
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January 13, 2021 at 10:12 pm #465165Hans StockerParticipant
Great Bridge Over The River Sky, Keelin. Funny and clever title. Also a great contrail – in more than one way – in Arizona Contrail #501. All Coming Through like Ruth states.
Let’s Go! We Have To Go Straight Into Its Mouth
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January 14, 2021 at 12:41 am #465191Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Michael, I can’t help but see the large head of a sketchy fellow contemplating a tiny drop of moon in #501. A wonderful composition.
Ruth and Hans, it looks like you’ve caught the contrails on some kind of mission. This one below appears to have run into some interference.
Might Be Late Getting There
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January 20, 2021 at 5:26 pm #466161Donatella LombardiniParticipant
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January 22, 2021 at 6:37 pm #466486Hans StockerParticipant
I love ‘Might Be Late Getting There’ Keelin. The interference suggests a quite dramatic fate….
Donatella: since contrails right from the plane’s engine fascinate you, I think you might like this one spotted a few days ago.
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January 22, 2021 at 11:39 pm #466545Ruth QuistParticipant
Just Some Guts
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January 23, 2021 at 8:49 pm #466643Ruth QuistParticipant
More Guts
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January 23, 2021 at 8:51 pm #466644Ruth QuistParticipant
Out Of Guts
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January 24, 2021 at 5:30 pm #466809Gregory VenarskyParticipant
Love the series Ruth! Were those all of the same airplane contrail? And both of the closeups by Hans and Donatella, I find those fascinating but my camera does not have that kind of zoom capability. Love all the shots everyone! How many can you count in these two?(Both are taken side by side so there may be some overlapping)
Streaks Across the Sky
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January 24, 2021 at 9:55 pm #467005Ruth QuistParticipant
Gregory, Wow quite the friendly skies you have captured! I am going to say 9 contrails. I had some fun with my series of shots. The first two where the same contrail and the third was a different day. I find the contrails a unique man made sky decoration for us cloud seeking spotters. Thanks too for liking my midwest sunset. That was taken from my hotel window in Saint Louis a number of years ago. But cloud pictures never age, isn’t that exceptional.
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January 25, 2021 at 4:27 am #467169Gregory VenarskyParticipant
St. Louis is right next to where I live!! That’s so cool Ruth!
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January 29, 2021 at 10:02 pm #468743Hans StockerParticipant
Present And Past In One Being Two
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February 5, 2021 at 2:41 am #470317Ruth QuistParticipant
Pink Works
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February 9, 2021 at 5:04 am #470826Gregory VenarskyParticipant
Another couple of shots with a ton of contrails!
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February 9, 2021 at 9:33 am #470840Hans StockerParticipant
Pointillistic Contrail
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February 9, 2021 at 10:53 pm #470960Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Lots of dramatic postings here from Donatella, Gregory, Hans; and Ruth, your gutsy trilogy was an especially funny series.
Hans, Pointalistic Contrail reminds me of chalk art on sidewalks. Love the sense of rough texture in it. Below is another kind of sketchy line. And further down, a more distant view just a few moments later, showing the end of the line with a trio of nearby companions.
In the Neighborhood
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February 11, 2021 at 9:27 pm #471283Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, Gregory and Keelin, who knew how diverse contrails can be. Love everyone’s trails.Mending Some Socks
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February 11, 2021 at 10:35 pm #471295Hans StockerParticipant
Mending Some Socks needs a delicate needle and it also show some very nice delicate colors Ruth.
The sketch lines that in ‘In The Neighborhood’ shows are marvelous Keelin. Did you realize these are three distrails and one contrail? That makes a contrail count of -2. We did not have that one before, so congrats with that one! Love it.
Multiplying Trails
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February 13, 2021 at 6:22 pm #471521Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Mending socks brings back memories, Ruth! My grandmother tried to teach me how to do it, but I never could get the darn(ing) hang of it. Made more cavums than were there to begin with. Love the wooly look of your photo nonetheless!
What a rich coppery glow you’ve captured in Multiplying Trails, Hans! So beautiful. And thank you for the clarity on count of -2. I had not realized! :) Below is one more from the scene that unfolded.
Walked Right Into It
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February 13, 2021 at 11:13 pm #471566Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans and Keelin, I really enjoy your captures. Trails can look like reptiles at times. Intriguing stuff in our sky. Coming In For A Landing
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February 20, 2021 at 2:41 am #472594Patricia L KeelinParticipant
You’re so right, Ruth. No end to the intrigue when it comes to what’s up there. Below, a waxing crescent might appear to be coming in for a kind landing—or not!
The Moon’s Trampoline
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February 20, 2021 at 8:12 pm #472644Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, what fun for your moon. Could be a tight rope too.Up In Smoke
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February 27, 2021 at 4:10 am #473573Michael LerchParticipant
Albuquerque
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February 27, 2021 at 9:35 pm #473679Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, New Mexico looks busy. Black and White was perfect for the picture.Feels Like Corduroy
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March 4, 2021 at 10:49 pm #474825Hans StockerParticipant
Keelin, I love Walked Right Into It and the Moon’s Trampoline is very funny. Up In Smoke or Down In The Mountains, Ruth? Very nice as is Your Feel Like Corduroy. And Albuqurque is indeed very busy Michael. Great B&W.
Fanning Trail
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March 5, 2021 at 7:49 pm #474930Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, great textures in your trail. Love the angle.Not Sure Where To Land My Plane
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March 13, 2021 at 8:04 pm #476045Ruth QuistParticipant
An Early Start To The Day
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March 20, 2021 at 10:41 pm #476931Michael LerchParticipant
Arizona Contrail#503
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March 26, 2021 at 11:47 am #477698Hans StockerParticipant
Zorro must have been there Michael. A nice bridge between the two trails, as well.
Difference In Scale
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March 31, 2021 at 11:20 pm #478746Ruth QuistParticipant
Michael, that Z tract is a way fun study. Hans, Scale is ELEGANT.
Flying The Friendly Sky ( with a mask )
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April 11, 2021 at 7:54 pm #480433Ruth QuistParticipant
Race You Home
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April 19, 2021 at 8:53 pm #481590Ruth QuistParticipant
Looking For Lake Front Property
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April 28, 2021 at 12:04 pm #482769Hans StockerParticipant
Nice place for a lakefront property Ruth!
Undecisive Pilot?
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April 28, 2021 at 8:53 pm #482827Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, looking like some way cool figure eights.
Me And My Shadow
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April 30, 2021 at 12:55 pm #483389Hans StockerParticipant
Nice shadow Ruth. The perspective is always a bit deceptive knowing that the shadow must be cast on a lower layer of cloud.
Here is one that would have seriously alarmed the Crow (Keelin and Michael will understand). It shows disturbing acitvity of chimtrail. It must be the season.
Alarming
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May 4, 2021 at 10:26 pm #484263Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, a wild ride you captured.
I Am Missing Somethings
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May 10, 2021 at 9:30 pm #485332Hans StockerParticipant
A nice feathery contrail Ruth.
I wonder wether next plane scribblings have been written with a feather.
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May 15, 2021 at 8:08 pm #486013Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, very interesting contrail you found out there. Almost snake like.
Me And A Friend
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May 23, 2021 at 7:28 pm #487006Ruth QuistParticipant
Hiding Out
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May 27, 2021 at 8:41 pm #487738Ruth QuistParticipant
Contrail DNA
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June 2, 2021 at 1:48 am #488634Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Finally catching up with this topic and Wow!, what a collection of trails and clever titles. Favorites: Michael’s Albuquerque and Z (mark of Zorro?); Hans’s Undecisive Pilot and Alarming lemniscates as well as that fabulous crow vortex instability; Ruth’s Race You Home and Me and My Shadow.
Caught this one just before the music changed…
Dancing To The Beat Of A Different Drum
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June 7, 2021 at 8:59 pm #489579Ruth QuistParticipant
Keelin, exciting looking contrail. My guy has decided to
Climb Trees
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June 10, 2021 at 10:21 am #489973Donatella LombardiniParticipant
Although this is not really a contrail, I did not know where to put this so I put it in here because it’s a cloud made by a plane :)
The plane crossed a cloud then seemed to drag the cloud down with it making these nice condensation trails!
Sorry for the poor quality
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June 10, 2021 at 10:21 am #489974Donatella LombardiniParticipant
Although this is not really a contrail, I did not know where to put this so I put it in here because it’s a cloud made by a plane :)
The plane crossed a cloud then seemed to drag the cloud down with it making these nice condensation trails!
Sorry for the poor quality
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June 15, 2021 at 10:22 am #490567Hans StockerParticipant
That is a great capture Donatella. A plane producing Wing tip vortices and wing clouds in which I see also some iridescence. Great quality in my opinion!
Ruth your Contrail DNA is very clever.
And Keelin, your As Soon As The Dust Settles is very funny and a great composition as well.
Just After Launch
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June 24, 2021 at 12:04 am #491703Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, incredible colors in your Launch. That is a thing of beauty.
Chopper Checking Out Contrail
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July 3, 2021 at 5:53 pm #493004Ruth QuistParticipant
Fanning Out
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July 18, 2021 at 12:14 am #494745Ruth QuistParticipant
Oh, shoot. These are swans and not a contrail. I’ll take the birds.
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July 31, 2021 at 7:38 pm #496426Ruth QuistParticipant
Evening Shift
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August 7, 2021 at 5:09 pm #497075Hans StockerParticipant
I love your contrail of swans Ruth! It is an example of things that look like clouds. Ingenious.
Criss Cross
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August 11, 2021 at 4:57 pm #497474Donatella LombardiniParticipant
A contrail rainbow :)
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August 12, 2021 at 6:08 pm #497590Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, Criss Cross is some amazing action in the sky. Donatella, love that colorful streak.
Taking The Red Eye
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August 19, 2021 at 11:25 pm #498694Hans StockerParticipant
Donatella your contrail rainbow is amazing. What do you think: is it iridescence or some other optical phenomenon?
Taking the red eye is very subtle Ruth.
Threesome
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August 24, 2021 at 8:31 pm #499196Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, great looking threesome.
Has Anyone Seen My Teeth
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August 31, 2021 at 1:53 am #499723Ruth QuistParticipant
One Big Noodle
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September 15, 2021 at 2:38 am #501589Ruth QuistParticipant
Must Be Home Before Curfew
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October 13, 2021 at 6:18 pm #505604Peter RoperParticipant
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October 14, 2021 at 11:36 am #505652Hans StockerParticipant
Welcome Peter, nice shot. It seems that Ruth wants to be home before curfew and you just sat in the middle of it. Great sky to play noughts and crosses.
Iridescent Contrail At Sunset
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October 19, 2021 at 11:25 pm #506352Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Lots of exciting images have been shared here since I was last able to contribute to the topic. Love the variations! And funny how some contrails seem to do a clean line dance while others sway and swirl with wild abandon. Gorgeous golden color in your last one, Hans!
I don’t see many trails here lately, but this morning, there was this small segment.
The Bottom Line
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October 23, 2021 at 8:51 pm #506805Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, you keep presenting exceptional imagines. Fills my heart.
Keelin, your bottom line sounds like my check book with some erasing.
Blending In
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November 3, 2021 at 2:11 am #508185Ruth QuistParticipant
Well Hidden
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November 18, 2021 at 6:36 pm #509981Ruth QuistParticipant
Breaking Up
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December 9, 2021 at 7:02 pm #512848Ruth QuistParticipant
It’s A Bird and It’s A Plane ( no superman )
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December 12, 2021 at 5:26 pm #513360Gregory VenarskyParticipant
Just got to catching up with this topic again! Fantastic titles from everyone!
Cutting In
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December 20, 2021 at 1:09 pm #514971Hans StockerParticipant
I love The Bottom Line, Keelin. Great composition. And Breaking up has great parallel shadows cast by the contrail, Ruth. Cutting is is a really peculiar contrail Gregory.
Ahhhh
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December 20, 2021 at 2:59 pm #515005Peter RoperParticipant
I think I could get quite hooked on this thread. Rather addictive! I’ve called mine “Short & sweet”!
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December 20, 2021 at 6:09 pm #515047Peter RoperParticipant
Deep purple
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January 2, 2022 at 8:16 pm #516963Ruth QuistParticipant
A Clear Shot
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January 2, 2022 at 9:39 pm #516974Duncan BulmanParticipant
Don’t you wish sometimes…?
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January 7, 2022 at 5:21 pm #517754Hans StockerParticipant
Welcome Peter, and I look out for more. I had to look good but it is there on Short and sweet and Deep Purple is rocking.
Nice Clear Shot Ruth and Duncan you have some great sunsets with contrail.
I zoom in and found this.
Creepy Contrail
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January 8, 2022 at 12:20 pm #517831Duncan BulmanParticipant
Hans,
A dragon?
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January 9, 2022 at 5:14 pm #517974Hans StockerParticipant
Yes Duncan, a dragon, or an insect, or an elf flying upside down. Isn’t it a funny shape?
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January 7, 2022 at 10:09 pm #517793Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, looking very prehistoric. Way cool. May be a safer way to fly.
Taking an Evening Flight
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January 9, 2022 at 4:35 pm #517964Hans StockerParticipant
It Snapped!
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January 9, 2022 at 5:37 pm #517977Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Ruth, I like the fine parallels in your quiet composition in Taking An Evening Flight. Very nice!
And Hans, you do see the most remarkable contrail displays! Love the whatever Creepy (or not!) creature you posted on the 7th. And here you go again with another amazing and amusing capture. Are you sure it snapped and isn’t actually two split-tongued friends looking for a celestial hookup?
Drawing The Line At Sunset
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January 12, 2022 at 10:35 am #518379Hans StockerParticipant
Yes nice parallel line in your Taking The Evening Flight, Ruth, and also the right one throws its shadows.
Thanks Keelin, and somehow I am not surprised that it must be you to see something very different in Snapped, like two split-tongued friends looking for a celestial hookup. Love it. Once seen ……
And yes I captured a nice series of contrail. Here is another one from that same occasion.
Circles In The Sky
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January 12, 2022 at 11:23 am #518388Duncan BulmanParticipant
Strange things happening in the sky above you. Is something up there sculpting the vapour trails?
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January 12, 2022 at 5:56 pm #518438Hans StockerParticipant
Yes Duncan and here are even more examples. It is called Crow Vortex Instability. The vortices are caused by the wingtips of certain airplanes. When the atmospheric circumstances are favorable the planes make these fleeting short lived patterns of lasso’s and circular patterns. One must have the camera at hand and then you can see them develop from straight contrails via “barbed wire” to these funny circular patterns. They don’t last long.
Barbed Wire
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January 12, 2022 at 8:37 pm #518455Duncan BulmanParticipant
Hans, I must have seen hundreds if not thousands of vapour trails but I’ve never seen anything as special as these.
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January 13, 2022 at 4:21 pm #518594Hans StockerParticipant
Keelin, I love Drawing The Line At Sunset. It has your signature.
Duncan, I am sure you will spot some of these in the future. Wait for a day that is favorable for contrails and some of those are also favorable for CVI (Crow Vortex Instability).Next one is from my archive.
Strange Maneuver
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January 15, 2022 at 9:09 pm #518917Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, your last grouping of contrails are abstract and way fun imagines. Your photos are a piece of art.
Keelin, Drawing A Line is a beauty. I like everything above the contrail.
More Than A 12 Foot Ladder
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January 21, 2022 at 6:53 pm #519807Ruth QuistParticipant
Plane Glare
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January 24, 2022 at 7:42 pm #520177Ruth QuistParticipant
From A Pink Airplane
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January 30, 2022 at 11:58 pm #521239Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Hans, I remain in complete awe of your Crow Vortex images — so amazing! I have yet to see such wonders here, but I’ll keep looking.
And Ruth, yours come in Pink! ;) Love the wide ladder, by the way.
This one was barely there…Pinstripe
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January 31, 2022 at 8:44 am #521271Peter RoperParticipant
A chance meeting,
good evening and good bye.
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February 8, 2022 at 10:17 am #522667Hans StockerParticipant
You captured a nice delicate Pinstripe, Keelin. Definitely there.
Peter, should the two polite greeting planes have seen this latest cloud creature up there?
Deep Sky Creature Looking For Prey
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February 8, 2022 at 12:59 pm #522694Duncan BulmanParticipant
This reminds me of those mysterious creatures patrolling the deep oceans when caught in the lights of the submersible.
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February 8, 2022 at 12:50 pm #522690Peter RoperParticipant
Wow, that looks spectacular. My guess is that you have a much longer telephoto than I.
Overcast here today so flat grey nothingness, or a blank canvas for Keelin to dream away :)
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February 8, 2022 at 2:38 pm #522706Hans StockerParticipant
Yes a tele Peter, but it also has been cropped to zoom further in.
And yes indeed Duncan, this one could have lurked somewhere in the deep see.
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February 10, 2022 at 2:04 am #522911Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Ah, Peter, you are so right about a blank canvas for dreaming and then the surprise of what we might see upon it. While I’ve never conjured anything as extraordinary as what Hans has captured and shared with us on this topic, I’m keeping my eyes on the skies ~~~ while my mind unfurls.
Heading Somewhere?
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February 10, 2022 at 9:51 pm #523021Hans StockerParticipant
Wow, I love that one Keelin and its title as well! My mind unfurls too. It is a great spiraling piece of contrail, on its own and out in the blue…..
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February 19, 2022 at 8:53 pm #524125Ruth QuistParticipant
A Piece Of Salmon
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February 22, 2022 at 1:27 am #524396Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Looks delicious, Ruth ~~ and even more appetizing with that tiny dash of salt! Love the whole serving.
And thank you for kind words, Hans. Here’s another recent surprise…
Contrailbow
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February 25, 2022 at 6:03 pm #524837Hans StockerParticipant
I agree with the words by Keelin, it is a great serving of a Piece Of Salmon, Ruth.
Never seen a contrailbow before Keelin. Ingenious.
A Meeting Of Different Styles
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March 1, 2022 at 9:21 am #525131Hans StockerParticipant
Following The Setting Sun
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March 2, 2022 at 8:34 pm #525289Ruth QuistParticipant
Hans, that orange is really something. Keelin, a wild bow of your contrail. Contrails seems to have their own language.
Cleared For A Landing
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March 14, 2022 at 5:38 pm #526777Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Cleared For A Landing has the bright look of a meteor, Ruth. A straight shot before winds have their capricious way with the trail.
Or the sun colorizes it, as in your Following, Hans. What a hue! Meeting of Styles renewed my long longing to spot a CVI. And at last! Written across the sky above my own backyard… How many years ago did you introduce me to this calligraphic wonder?
Crow In The Tree
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March 16, 2022 at 12:38 am #526931Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Doesn’t seem right to start a new volume for the Contrail topic with this lark, so just tagging it on here. A new type of CVI?
Cloud Velcro Instability
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