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Gavin..Here is what I think… I live in the Upper Sonoran desert, Phoenix Arizona, USA. This region gets maybe 7 inches of rain a year. We have around 275 ” sunny ” days a year, and most of them are without clouds at all..Yes. blue sky from horizon to horizon. So..when we do have clouds..IT IS a cause for celebration, fainting and jumping especially when the event includes clouds of fleeting rarity. Just the opportunity for mental exercise offered by the quickly passing condensation, gives reason to get out of bed before sun rise and disregard all else when the slightest hint of an ” event” is suggested by the wind blown. I am allowed to ” flex” my working hours due to folks understanding the importance of clouds to me. Yes..I can leave work to photograph the clouds activity and make up for my time spent later.In that way, the celebration of cloud ..my life is centered around. I find myself in the clouds. And that is not weirdo,,and is of a value well beyond the mundane.
What is weird..is of all the things any one human can experience and do,,that so many never see the celebration that is going on right over their heads…for “free’.By ” free”, i do not mean..with out “financial cost” . I mean..unencumbered,,not restrained, liberated..Clouds offer opportunity to ” free’ ones mind,,ones Imagination. And that is to be celebrated. It IS weird that such a perspective is considered ” weird”.
Hygge, Ahh that is a good question on the ” Armani” shot. I stopped at ” undulatus” because that group of cloud was remembered to be more of ” wisp”, thin tendrils, than substantial lenticular. I imagine I would get the same kind of question if I had called them lenticular.As you may notice, on the left there is already signs of deterioration. So,what you see is as about as substantial as they got. At that,a bit of processing to bring out more grey tones, gives the wisps more body than the eye perceived originally. Perhaps that relates to Bill’s comment about the use of IR film in cloud/landscape photography. The digital cmos ” sees” further into the infra red and ultra violet than the human eye. Canon makes a R version of its 6D camera that is sold for the astronomy buffs .It is designed for capturing the infra red wave lengths lighting up far distant targets. So, there are ways of altering the ” seen” for what ever purpose and outcome. And true, it can make identifying difficult.
I had not noticed tag but I have removed it for this post. So many things to have to pay attention to.
Attached is another example of transitory cloud. I want to call it a cumulus humilis literally exploding into a congestus. I caught this from my backyard, as it happened just south of overhead. Palm tree is for scale. And yes, contrast was heightened.
Bill, Thank you very much! That video is a treat since I have no first hand knowledge of NLCs.. I’ve never seen them. The speed is unexpected as well as the texture you mentioned as being ragged. The almost overhead perspective is unique to me as well. Fantastic view! That there is enough up there at that height to push those tiny particles around amazes me. Thanks Again!
Clouds do not have to look like anything. Capturing their tactile nature can give a feeling or an experience to the observer.
Gini..I’m sure u have old email address since I have not received any from you on current. I sent you pic using a 2011 address I found..yonder. Or, perhaps Ian can find a way to give you my current email addy.
Hey H, good seeing you found a way to here. I’ve learned to click on ” Cloud Forum” where ever it is and however camouflaged.
Perhaps that is also at the foundation of my B&W photography of clouds. I create under the influence of ” Surrealism” as put forth by A. Breton, Magritte, et al. So, there is an emphasis on How one perceives perhaps more important than What one perceives.
I take pictures of clouds. Thats easy enough. With the advent of modern digital photography,,upgraded every 6 months along with everything else digital, every human now has the potential to be an Ansel Adams..or more preferably , themselves. In creation we find ourselves.
I enjoy ” dupelicatus” cloud because of what they offer, especially in B&W,,digital B&W at that. Multilayer clouds offer a reality of..multi realities. Working the gray tones brings out different facets as one digitally processes the photograph. So the photograph becomes more than a graph of a cloud or clouds. The photograph evolves to a subjective experience ,,that changes as one mentally sinks into it. The success of the photo graph, imho, becomes, how well does it get one mentally traveling..out of the comfort of the mundane and into the unknown. B&W,,digital B&W, offers relative inexpensive freedom to stretch ones mind, to deepen the human experience, to find ones ” self”.
Of course B&W is not limited to that. However, it is how I am exercising the craft. So, there is a freedom in my photographic style that may wish to leverage the viewer out of the box of the mundane,,and thus experience some ” freedom” of their own. Not only to say, clouds look like things,,but to say..they give the visual opportunity to experience beyond oneself,is my hope. B&W is an obvious and easy first step away from one reality. Clouds are perfect metaphors imho.
These photos were taken a day of each other. Is there a common ” Armani” thread connecting them?
Thank You All. CAS allows the asperatus event to further its influence. Thank You CAS for being here.
A few more shots of the event. The first one is almost straight overhead, up into a updraft or pocket part of the undulation.
Thank you Ian!
Below is a shot taken almost straight overhead. Its opposite of the thin altcum undulatus in its billow and ooze. Yet, I can still get lost in it when it fills the screen.
