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This Subtle Beauty is a true impressionistic beauty Keelin thanks to your perspective observations. You certainly have an eye for it. I love these vague upward waving structures behind the contrasting thicket.
Less subtle in its contrast …
Lenticular Sunset #2
Another fine asperitas monsooner Michael. Nice contrast between the blues and the whiter part in the middle. I saw us next to each other on the gallery today. Nice asperitas too that one!
I caught a lot of iridescence lately.
A Dowsing Rod?
Many thanks for your thoughts about it, Eric, Michael and George,….. it keeps puzzling although.
The milky parts don’t look like virga to me, more like a layer of undefined stratus (alto I suppose), since they don’t fall like streaks. And George you are right. I didn’t do the finger width test. I regret that afterwards, but the analytical part of me didn’t get a chance to intervene when I got the idea I had no time to loose to capture it well. Certainly at the moment the iridescence showed up. No thinking any more. I looked up the focus of each picture to give an idea of distance, but that turns out to be difficult without context. I now think the show was on alto height.
Michael, I think you hit it to state that “at some point you have to settle for in transition”. It certainly was in transition and it lasted about 20 minutes and agree with your analysis. What keeps puzzling me (pfff, unfortunately never ending this need to know more) is that some transitions can be recognized, but this one I don’t remember to have observed earlier. The mamma like structure also intrigued me.
I searched for lookalikes in the ICA but did not succeed (yet?). Just to keep it going here is another example of what I liked so much in the view.
Any new thoughts?
Ha, congrats George with your first Crow. I am sure more will follow.
Indeed you see a contrail twisted into a spiral on my last Contrail Madness. I saw today Ian posted my overview of the situation on the gallery. Take a look and you will see the spiral in its surroundings. You can see that the bright spot is no dog but just a relatively more bright spot in the picture where two spirals cross. Taken with the tele (400 mm) showing no context may give a different impression.
The whole scenery was quite surreal: the twisted trail in the sunset, the shadows and even a rather blue trail in this red colored scenery. The picture on the gallery has no changes, but when I do some photo shopping (as I did on the first Contrail Madness), the results are surprising. The enhanced ones are the ones I can share here. I posted one on the B&W thread. More later.
Next one is different.
Simple
At 14:31 this wide view – taken with 19 mm at 14:31 – shows with again altocumulus (or cirrocumulus?).
Any help to classify these clouds is much appreciated.
Somewhat later the sky shows this mixture of what seems to me altocumulus (or cirrocumulus?).
Taken with 33 mm at 14:24.
A bit later (with some lensflare) at 14:15, taken with 35 mm:
The question is how to classify these clouds. They seem to me rather atypical. Are they altocumulus or cirrocumulus and what variety?
Then I saw develop this milky parts overhead with in it quite distinct round mamma-like cloudlets. It was positioned at some 30 to 40 degrees up and around sun level.
Overhead at 14:11 taken with 44 mm.
Indeed, Whitewater Wipeout doesn’t leave any time to think Keelin. Wild! Love the way you give it a turn with your words. Words and pictures as well. A wonderful combination.
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