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I’m inspired. Hans, your Proud Cloud is apparitionous! (new word)— Keelin, the Dunes in Moonlight really look like dunes— crazy! Love the silky smoothness of #162, Michael.
I’ll join the party with this one:
Hustle & Bustle
This forum is awesome– I’ve been unknowingly cloud-spotting for all my life, much more seriously on the photography front since 2008. So blessed to have stumbled across the CAS a couple of years back and then to come back for a revisit and find these forums.
I’m eating up the lingo now, seems like I’m learning new stuff every day- and it’s expanded my enjoyment of cloud-spotting so much— you are a fantastic community- so open, so kind and considerate with this wonderful atmosphere of learning together and sharing knowledge— very rare on the Internet!
Cheers— I hope and pray you all are safe, healthy and even… I dare say… happy!
So, Hans— the rich colors in “No Doubt a Sunset” reminded me of a peculiar day some years ago. Our valley was beset on all sides by forest fires; thick smoke filled the air and then lofted over our local reservoir, Fern Ridge. Sunset made lemonade out of smokey lemons… both are true color for the day!
Sunset Made These
Great start to Vol. VIII, Michael– Love the perpendicular angle on this one!
I’ll join you with a colorful little ditty from tonight’s session I’ll just call “Nebula.” With the sun on the horizon behind, a thin spot opened up in the nimbostratus to let enough light through to backlight the fractus in front.
Nebula
Delicious cotton candy sky, there Michael! So Steven… I’m gonna guess Sunset on the left and sunrise on the right. But only because the shot on the right reminds me of so many sunrises looking east from the Baja Peninsula over Sea of Cortez— it’s certain night blue to sky blue gradient and the red highlights that takes me there. Could be wrong though!
Here’s one from tonight as we were deep into sunset in the Willamette Valley. Back-lighting was perfect as the stratus thinned out just enough in this spot to let some light seep through. We’ll call this one, “Nebula”
Nebula
That’s just awesome, Keelin— so chewy! I could dive in and just spend an hour cruising around inside that scrumptious photo!
A few from my walk today:
Nubecita had a grand adventure visiting far off lands, this time it was Oregon, USA, on a particularly stormy day. :-)
Michael— that is an awesome insight! I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I could see how some of our big storm fronts in the early winter months would make it your way after blasting down out of the Aleutians and beginning to push inland south-southeast usually right over the top of the Willamette Valley where I live. We share weather!
Here’s another Willamette Valley sampling from September 2015 (color filters added, structure & contrast enhanced for artistic interpretation and effect.)
Maybe it’s us who are escaping to the clouds in these days, eh Hans? And a Whirled Tour of Peace, perhaps, Keelin? Could use a little bit of that. I’m going utterly stir crazy in our lock down in Oregon, USA! And honestly, we’ve had days running of pure stratus and nimbostratus out there (unbroken gray)— so I’m itching to get some broken up weather and some good cloudspotting going on. Like this… this was a day to remember for me…
Ominisious
Michael— feels like you live in Asperitas, AZ! I love the subtlety in “More Waves”, Hans, and Keelin, the warm color gradient in your waves photo — utterly lovely :-)
Straight up stratus outside for us today, but digging through my archives— here’s a little ditty I was lucky enough to enjoy a couple of years back, created from the top of a parking garage. In post, I deepened saturation, mid and low contrast and structure to let the colors and edges pop. Even so, the photo is almost true to light with the multiple layers front to back— the sun was above the horizon and lit up the near clouds until it hit a wall of the blue/gray in front it could not pierce. Canon 5d MkII, 235mm on EF70-200mm F2.8 (w/2x adapter), F/7.1, 1/200sec.
We printed this one out on Canvas and have it on the wall above our headboard.
This is such a great little community! Until I saw this thread a couple of days ago, I had not been paying attention to Light Effects (except rainbows and the occasional Sun Pillar)— and then when I was out and about on a Skyjourn yesterday, something really cool showed up— my first experience with iridescence— thank you all!
The First Iridescence is Always Free…
Diving right in to join the virtual community swim! Great start to a new thread, Hans and Keelin :-)
Ushering in the Storm
Ok Hans— crazy altocumulus going on there- love the title, It’s Lurking- sure is! I’m jealous Michael of the thunderheads you get in Arizona– they are a rarity up here in the Willamette Valley (Oregon.) – I LOVE stormy weather and can’t get enough. Keelin– so much going on there on so many levels– poor cumulus getting beat up a bit by the wind (I’m sure they don’t mind the ride…)
Not much going on in our sky today— clear blue, so I’ll fall back to September 2015 for some roughed up Aspiritas action looking east over the valley.
Aspirational
Gorgeous colors in your virga sporting stratocumulus, there Keelin! Thanks for getting this forum rolling folks– in troubled times like these, so nice to have a community sanctuary like this one to fall back on.
Thanks for noting the website, Hans— bit dated by now, not really doing much portrait or commercial work any more. Probably getting ready to retire it and switch it all over to just skyjourn.com :-)
Pulling one out of my own archives from June of 2018.
Oh Wondrous Skies, Let Me Count Thy Ways
Stratus and cumulus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus and undulatus all lit up with crepuscular rays.
Wow- those colors, Hans! I love it when we get treated with those purples and pinks and splashes of yellow!
Seems like Cirrus is the flavor of the week- lots of that going on up here in the Northwest too, Keelin— and Michael— nice baby cumulus just hanging out waiting for a little more vapor to swing in! Ha!
So, pulling this one out of my archives just for the fun of it.
You mentioned the Sun Pillar in a previous post, Hans— here’s one from a couple years back but missing the sun.
(btw- when you see a “Daniel Soule” watermark on some of these, that’s my old pen name for my waning pro photography biz…)
Pillar on the Sea
