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Amazing and beautiful, Keelin, the positive and negative as well. But which one is which? I suppose Dimensions is the positive but I can’t be sure. Both versions keep puzzling me about what I see: a waterfall, a picture from high above, a frozen lake?…. Love it.
Splash!
Keelin and George, you both caught mother nature in the act with the 22 degrees halo and sundog.
I will remember this figure of speech you introduced, Keelin. And George, you gave a good advise to look up when the sun is sufficiently low (below 32 degrees above the horizon) to search for a CZA. Even when there is no 22 degrees halo and cirrostratus and / or cirrus is overhead a CZA might appear when the sun is low enough. I experienced that a CZA is not that rare when you look up frequently enough in the right conditions. Mother nature hides a CZA round the zenith and normally we don’t wonder that high, but doing so will let you catch mother nature red-handed, or even better: rainbow-handed.
Thanks Michael. You once wrote you are looking for layers. I try too, but good examples are not easy to spot. That makes it feel good to catch one. Bas Relief is also one. Surreal indeed.
Certainly surreal knowing that the texture of Keelin revealed the anteater that might have caused the scratches in the sky seaching for ants. Great texture too, Keelin!
Distant Bird Lost In A Silky Texture
You are right Keelin, here we can push it as far as we like. Do I see a part of the 22 degrees halo? I wondered where the sun must be relative to the sundog.
Nevertheless here is one I did not push at all. I used it already in the Black and White thread and gave it extra contrast which worked for the B&W version, but this is the original, just made almost kitsch by nature herself.
The latest textures by you two are inspiring. Hope to see more of those.
Yesterday I spotted these
Scratches
This looks like a satellite view of a delta with meandering waters and some clouds hanging over it, Keelin. Amazing.
Under the surface I go ….
Diving For Davy
I do enjoy this George. Interesting article you found on the subject of lobes or mamma. Conclusion: lobes. Do you remember the Cloud of the Month for November 2016? The accompanying explanation is all about the lobes (although downwards).
For the upward lobes I am not yet convinced whether it might be a matter of perspective. Up or down is sometimes hard to distinguish from where we are watching. On the other hand upward convection and flows must be possible somehow imho.
There is a lot of contrail over here and I will look for upward lobes from now on.
Never saw one myself, Michael. I still wait for a good opportunity. The Carambaians were crazy with luck for having the right conditions to observe it more often according to the explanation wikipedia gives. In a flat country you must be on the border of a fogbank with a sun behind you to observe it. Mostly the fog is surrounding us over here. So no cloudbow. One has to take a plane or climb a mountain (not here) to have the opportunity to see one. On the atoptics site you can read that the phenomenon might be less rare then it seems to be, for it can be easily overlooked.
I once spotted something alike, but it turned out to be a 46 degrees halo or more likely a supralateral arc (the two are very difficult to distinguish from each other according to atoptics). That phenomenon is also very rare, but I count until now two observations of this halo (in four years) and no cloudbow.
Mistaken for a cloudbow some years ago: a supralateral arc (most likely). You can see top left the CZA tangent to the larger bow. Although no cloudbow, it was spectacular to see something like this slowly appear and then vanish again. The picture doesn’t even come close to reality.
All true, Michael and no problem at all. I wrote once before that capturing iridescence mostly is a bit disappointing relative to what you saw in reality. Our eyes and brain do certain things with relative brightness that is hard to reproduce.
Great parhelic circle you spotted! I had the opportunity myself some times this year already, but never saw it growing. Looking up pays off with these optical rarities, you once stated yourself.
Always Keep An Eye Open
“Cloud Still Life” might be indeed an appropriate category, Michael. All sorts of components and a great texture too.
Keelin, I can’t see you after this peek- a-boo with the Captain?
Snowy Texture
We got good company for sure, Michael. That makes it special. I remember that it was difficult to choose from a lot of shots I had taken on that occasion. Later I discovered Ian did not like any enhancement getting it on the gallery. Always a difficult matter in the case of iridescence. It is easy to exaggerate. The one on the calendar has no enhancement though, but when I give it some extra contrast, the result is even more striking. I will post an example of another one on the Not B&W thread one of these days.
You make us curious about the ones you are holding off for 2019.
The Captain went looking inquisitively, Keelin and then another character appeared.
Davy Jones
So did this one found me…..
Captain Hook
Hey Mike, I discovered yesterday we turn out to be both on the CAS calendar for 2018. June and July. Congrats! Feels good.
Michael suggested some posts ago in this thread to start a thread for sunsets and sunrises. Then maybe others will jump in with colorful sunsets and sunrises to be proud of.
I still like the suggestion of Michael but now I thought the thread is already there with the title Not B&W. The title gives no limitation to sunsets or sunrises, so let’s continue and jump in with sundogs, iridescence, sunsets or ‘just’ a blue and white composition to share here that finds no way to the gallery.
Luminescent Jellyfish
