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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..
and then on the other hand..the small black speck on the left there is a jet airliner crossing the west valley from north to south (right to left) ..I left it in to give imagination to the conversation on board that plane at that time..” Ladies and gentlemen a quick look outside if you’re near a window is all we get before buckling up to land, so take a peek at Mother Nature’s Asperitas clouds, a rare one at sundown at that. Any questions just look at’em upside down!”
Arizona Asperitas#114
Very Nice Work there Keelin!. You saved the best one for last, imho. The tension is so cool.. We don’t see such well behaved cloud in the Valley. Below is what we get when we do get weather.
Arizona Color#177
Hans, Yeaa!, When I look at your shot rite side up, it took me 2 or 3 passes before my mind finally saw the Asperitas, but just one look at it upside down I see the Asperitas. Looks like you had winds that had their hands full moving around that thick of a canopy. The walls appear to be already losing their cohesiveness and fractus is developing everywhere the battle ensues between cloud and wind. I venture the clouds survived battered and weary as the wind chased the sun over the horizon.
Another question is, is always looking at Asperitas upside down always required.. no..but you have to got thru the action of looking at it upside down to know rite side up is preferred.. a bit of a paradox I suppose. The upside down look is educational, it informs and answers questions. It gives a tangibility to the clouds, valleys ridges, rolls easily identified, a sculpture made of cloud . The rite side view is challenged and not always the winner of the preferred. Below is such a case. The rite side up, view maintains a poetry that the upside down view explains away into indifference. The Asperitas Arc does everything for the rite side up view and does little for the upside down view.
Arizona Asperitas#113
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..Btw , I never did spill the beans on most of the shots #89 and up. with the exceptions of 90, 101, and 108, the rest were taken on the same day. For a 2 hour and 45 minute period in the late afternoon I took a little over 200 photos ,95% were shots of Asperitas, all from the backyard. So yea, electric and telephone/TV cables may have been erased and replaced by a function in Lightroom…and maybe not , just a judicious use of crop saves a lot of time not having to do remove and replace. As a photographer I learn how much I can get away with relying on lens and cmos to bail me out. I respect the clouds too much to allow a crummy power line to a street lamp photobomb the shot.. The weather that afternoon was all southwest to north east so the shots are taken mostly looking west all the way to looking northeast, but almost all to northerly directions..because thats the least cluttered view and..the first hills out of the Valley await the weather there. The late afternoon 2+hrs of Asperitas also provided lighting issues that I chose just to go ahead and record. It got strange. I didn’t see what I captured with my, where’s the britest spot, get focus on it and quick shooting approach when interesting things are going off in various directions. When I ran out of light it seemed the Asperitas show also ended, blew itself out of the state. I easily lost track of time with evidence of taking an average of near 1 pic every minute and thirty seconds. So ,what I thought were the coolest ,you’ve seen, and Im still reviewing shots I may have overlooked in a hurry. Just today another list of shots I want to review in literoom again. But the rest are for the New Year and to that I hope Every One Has A Happy New Year!
Arizona Asperitas #112
