[Hans Stocker]

Sunset Sundog is beautiful Keelin. I like the smooth transition of colors on the diagonal.

This one is also spotted at sunset (two days ago). In The Colour thread I saw you like it seasoned.

[Hans Stocker]

Ah, some seasoning tastes well Keelin, but you shouldn’t burn the eggs Michael.

here is some Mihoen with it.

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Washed Away

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That is a beauty Keelin. A Chance Meeting for sure and I think this might be a CZA because of the regular pattern of colors and the order in which they appear.

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Hygge, it turns out not to bee easy to find pictures on the web with higher numbers of contrails on it. Nice link to the the page of the WMO anyway.

Sunset Contrail

[Hans Stocker]

Great composition Michael to start the Chinese New Year with!

Sweeping

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That’s very surprising and nice play with colors on Sunset #53, Michael.

Some Days Ago

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I love all the latest posts to begin with It All Adds Up by Keelin and to end with the Arizona cloudscapes by Michael especially the last one with the velum.

Ripplescape

[Hans Stocker]

A magical Journey Michael. Great abstract with strange forms. True art!

Here is one to celebrate the Chinese new year.

Dragon Dance

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Shredded and Clawed Clouds are both undulatus but also very different in texture. Love them.

Overhang

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Thank you Keelin, The couple had to wait for this date on the bench before they could do their tango in the gallery.

And a very elegant tango you captured!

Here is something I spotted yesterday.

Birds Flying High

 

[Hans Stocker]

Quite applicable alias you use for this topic Hilltopspotter.

I am not sure where the sun and the mountain are on your picture. Two situations are possible.When the sun and mountain are behind you / the observer you can find via the next link what you can expect to see together with an explanation: Atoptics, mountain shadows.

For the second case – when the sun is in front and we look at the sunset with a mountain behind the horizon like George shows in his drawing – I can’t find a clue on the internet or in my book about optical pheneomena, but I would expect the shadow of the mountain to diverge from the solar point, the same way crepescular rays diverge. I recently posted a picture with diverging shadows (in this case shadows from other clouds I suppose): Shadows Fall.

This way it would be plausible to see the shadow seemingly upside down, but that is an optical illusion the same way crepescular rays seem to diverge and anticrepescular rays seem to converge.

I am not sure, but I hope this makes sense and helps. Let us know whatever you figure out more.

[Hans Stocker]

Fantastic colors George. Nothing wrong with the focus.

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Ha , less is more Keelin.

More Or Less

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Nice texture and layers Michael.

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