What's your perfect cloud status?
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This might upset the apple-cart, but I have to admit it:
I believe there can be too few clouds and indeed, too many!A warm sunny day with scattered Cumulus’ bobbing along slowly. That’s my idea of perfect. Just right for a good photo of something obscure in the cloud formation.
A close second is a bleddy good Cumulonimbus or three. Especially at the end of a warm, muggy day, just as the Sun sets and the storm begins. Marvellous!
Your favourites?
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I won’t make the Faustian deal for “perfection” ,especially with clouds, but my favorite is the once considered, “undulatus asperitus” Not sure where that label stands since being accepted by the WMO. I see it in the desert here maybe once a quarter. The phenomena is a challenge to photograph and has a ” art deco” look and appeal to it; a fascinating presentation of straight horizontal line and curved line designing fantastic spaces and texture. If the lighting is breaking thru the cloud, some amazing patterns are made even more fascinating.
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Hi, Clifftop. By coincidence, I have been thinking since 27 January (my CAS election date) as to what my favourite cloud might be. Cirrus are popular, but like you, perhaps, I settled for Cumulus, especially with a silver lining e.g.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/photo-08059-2/The popular idiom is patently daft since not every cloud has a silver lining. In the CAS gallery, search for ‘silver lining’ and most of the responses come with rays, but I do not insist on rays. In your second para ‘ something obscure in the cloud formation.’ suggests to me ‘clouds that look like things’, very popular within CAS. But abstract shape, shine, shadow, tone and texture (which I often refer to as Armani-like) is equally fascinating e.g. as exemplified by Michael above.
Interesting post, Clifftop; thank you.
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