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The below shot has it all. You can see cloud being pulled up across the lower third of the shot. From lower left mid third ,across to upper right mid third ,is a Venetian blind ripple visual, just not at a good angle to the viewer as the lone lip on the upper right there is. Opposite side of the lip is a cloud roll going on by the winds, thinning out their density so light reveals the undulatus. Its a long shot. lots of telephoto so its not easy determining which up draft in the top third is pulling up the thin clouds in the bottom third.
.Arizona Asperitas #121
oh my goodness Ruth, im a sucker for the fluorescent orange. All the reds there! Nice shot!
Arizona Sunset #1106
Beyond tragic scene in Los Angeles. Makes us all wonder about fire conditions around our own town. Keelin the undulatus shot was made possible with a zoom telephoto lens. A fair amount of , compression of space, takes place with a telephoto lens. The alignment of the undulatus with the background is what made me take the shot. So I got a lot of undulatus and a simpler background with lighting that made it all possible. Below is another shot , zoomed in on an area, that shows diminishing undulatus the closer you get to the bottom right. Hans your pic reminds me of the olde Cadillac tail fins on their 50’s era models!
Arizona B&W#2405
Looks like Asperitas been going to the gym, getting her abs together. Seriously some fantastic big sky you have there Ruth.
The 1st shot below is the classic “Venetian blind” look of an undulating Asperitas with an opportunistic break in the canopy to highlite a portion. I pull back on the 2nd shot to show the ” egg beater” coming at the organized undulatus. 3rd shot shows the wind that creates Asperitas can also rip it all apart.
Arizona Asperitas #119
I see a hummingbird trying to defend its feeder from a woodpecker that has figured out the feeder.. outside my dining room window almost everyday. Now Im seeing them in the sky…and Ruth..ya bent the axle on that one..
..and yet another Arizona cloudscape..
Excellent specimen of Asperitas you captured Ruth. The sunlite breaking thru the weakening canopy on the right there softens it all up and there is no denying the center updraft. Thats some powerful wind that can pull-up a volume of cloud like that .How steep, in feet, are the walls on those pockets in the center and up in the upper left do you think Ruth?..btw..its Great too upside down!..I was thinking about a Vernacular Cloud Name for Asperitas could be ..the Dramamine Cloud..especially..with a new perspective of..on their side..Riteside and upside down are opposites..so On Their Sides..allows the observer to go back and forth with minimum effort…yea I can get dizzy doing that. Maybe just let the computer do the flipping would work..
I like both perspectives with the below. Rite side is easy and fun with the upside down telling a different story altogether. .not even opposite, just a whole different tale. Can there be Asperitas without fractus?
Arizona Asperitas#117
As it so happens Hans, I have photographic evidence of Elvis leaving the building. The Snarl is gone. Turn it upside down and you can see the King Snarl ascending into the Asperitus … But we give them names so that they may live on into whenever. Thanks for the endorsement Hans. So that leaves me with a Lip without a name now that the Snarl has been taken out. This whole Asperitus thing is relatively new and wide open for exploration. Vernacular appellations should be for the claiming as if being the first white man at the North Pole. So my 2nd nomination for Vernacular Cloud Names List..is the self serving, but legit ..The Lerch Lip…as defined by the observer, a wall of ridge cloud highlighted to appear brighter than the background in an Asperitus event… There is an opposite,. a dark undulation in front of a brighter background. There can be both complimenting each other.
The below Asperitas I cannot make sense of rite side up. The upside down view I can at least comprehend. So the first shot is upside down and the second shot is rite side up. Have fun!
Arizona Asperitas#116
Thanks for bringing up the idea Isabelle and Hans your knowledge on the matter is worthy here. What am I talking about? Vernacular names for clouds..a list started by CAS.. Below is my first nomination to the List of Vernacular Cloud Names..yes, The Elvis Lip Cloud..or The King’s Snarl.. Looking at the all shook up upside down shows its just a ridge line of cloud being pulled up to be devoured by hungry winds…Asperitas Worthy of the King..
