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I like the redesign. Afew things I figured out intuitively, like signing out, which brought me to using the same door for in and out. The Gallery portal no longer is of new photo everyday or so, but thats ok now that I know. There will be other challenges for me since I don’t keep up with the digital revolution but, I like the lite grey, lay out, and navigational ease. The new layered membership intrigues me as well. This forum appears to be working well. May this site continue to grow in appreciation and membership!
H, yes I believe the cape is actually the remains of an earlier pileus.True the neophyte might miss whats really goin on there for the easy alliterative, yet the foto begins where blue sky thinking ends. Nothing to fear.
Thank you Hygge, I have a good time , well actually I lose track of time, when I photograph the clouds. I experience a freedom that does me good.
Thanks Gentlemen! Hygge, in my minds eye the high humidity area seemed a blob that strangely appeared to come from the east north east. As I have said, rolled back from the hills since most weather comes up from the south west towards the north east. A band? Seemed to me a gradient, an invisible cell of saturated atmosphere.
A few more pics from the event are below. Velum is captured in the black and white shots. The color shot is the last shot I took during the event. As you can see, the wind ,again, has begun tearing things apart,,but notice,,how the pileus streams over to start forming its own velum cloud!
Haa! Im familiar with that work. Hitting that long sustained note ,fading with the incessant beat and haunting intermingle from Zawinal, Shorter and Chorea..Be dop Be dop BAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa..Bought the album 1970 and can still hear it in my head..and maybe even see it in the clouds.
hygge, I was a bit perplexed by your use of “Versus”as I try not to see one cloud better or worse than another. The physics behind the undulatus phenom is fascinating as any, so,the cloud manifested by the physics remains amazing in any regard. An example of what I’m getting at is below. Some time ago, a year, a low, heavy undulatus phenom passed overhead near work.The 1 st photo shows the “prime” of the phenom,,orderly clean, well structured, perhaps the greek ” Ionic” could be applied.
The 2nd photo, below, was taken at the end of the phenom. The undulations are ragged disorderly and , looking closely, undulations up top and counter of each other are easily evident. The Winds are disrupting the pageant.Wind,creator and destroyer.so, maybe you can see how I first felt the use of ” versus”. With clouds as with nature, its a constant change, at least here in the upper Sonoran desert where a system can blow thru the region in 6 hrs or less. When undulations build up on top of each other and in different alignments, wow, try imagining all the different wind directions going on up there.
> Getting drunk on a whiskey cloud
>Where clouds go, take me along
>Clouds skipped across the pond’s surface
hygge, Im thinking a stratus fractus,,that got a bit pannus paniced. Maybe you can imagine the moment when taking pictures in one direction, then turning around 180 degrees to catch this one trying to sneak up on you. That feeling I have not forgot..Then to watch it scud by , much commotion with no precipitation. HAA!
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.
Yes hygge, the more enigmatic the better IMHO. Stretching the mind is good exercise. And so it is with rain in the desert. Of course it rains here,precip actually making it to ground. The difficulty is in remembering the last. Some years back I think Phoenix broke a record of over 100 days without rain. And, just because some precip made it all the way to ground in say Sun City or Litchfield Park, is no guarantee it rains in Mesa or Guadalupe.
Another shot of cloud under the Stratus. Same day as above, but this one is in color.
Gini and hygge, thanks for your comments, Gini has the gist of it hygge,,tracks leaving an impression on our thoughts,,on our day, etc. Can’t say for sure the above is the result of contrail. Other pictures at same time show a much broad expanse of cloud .The above was very long linear ( Miles),,but not very wide as you indicate .
Marsha,,Yes, strange is intended in a ” surreal” way..beyond the normal,, or “extra reality.”
High compression is achieved with strong telephoto lens.The dark areas are actually blue sky.Exposure is programmed for high contrast ( Orange Filter effect). And of course its in B & W..Put it all together and ” Other reality”..is suggested. Clouds ,imho , are natures easiest and best venues to ” other reality”. Clouds get us out of the box of easy and comfortable thinking ( blue sky thinking). This shot also contrasts the smooth and the jagged as well as the organized and the chaotic. a new, strange reality could be the result of the contrasts. Its not so much ” What” is strange,,,but the way to or the ability, to find the Other reality,,the mental freedom and exercise to go beyond the mundane.
hygge..I’m glad You said it first hygge. I was thinking the same. Fascinating that a lenticular can have so much air turbulence. Maybe its just a stratus with a lot of ice in it?Below, is a shot of same but I left in the neighbors TV antenna for scale. Still, a very strange cloud
.hygge..2 observations : the length and compact nature of the ” flames” or tendrils tells me the wind has not had a a lot of time to effect the appearance. The phenomena is relatively young. Just a few minutes at most. The other thing noticed is the background mists are variable in orientation. Yes, the linear direction of the contrail is not the same as streams of wind. If memory serves me well..(?)..helped by other pics during same shoot, this is of a short trail. And probably true, the edge of the trail or base, is doing the moving thru space, falling. So the trail is 90 degrees orientated to direction of the winds pushing it.
Yet the phenomena floats, suspended in space and time. Perhaps a moment of a conga line, or fans waiting for the ticket booth to open for the new Star Wars movie.
