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Still a very nice initiative Hygge. It will be read by everyone who passes by. Who know how many it may have inspired to become a member?
Quite some great Color ones above by you all four, Michael, Duncan, Keelin and Ruth.
Someone Pushed his Fingers In The Clay
Love your sunset with the crepuscular rays followed by the red sunset, Duncan.
Hope you have had the much needed rain Keelin. I can see it was on its way. As well in Gray Works Ruth.
Crestscape
Keelin, your Halloween captures are fantastic. I love ‘Horned Devil Head With An Unhappy Expression’, ‘On A Mission To Find Dorothy’ (beware Dorothy!) and’Surrealistic Pillow’ (might that one be taken from a Jefferson Airplane?). Love them all three. And your ‘A Cloud As Lovely As A Tree’ is poetry itself that you don’t even have two writ yourself. In my opinion there is no need to resist the bards to inspire you. On the contrary.
Also Duncan got inspired to quote W.H. Davies. Very nice. Maybe we don’t have time to stand and stare but I promise I will do over and over again.
Ruth, a heart or a skull? That’s one for Halloween for sure. I agree with you on the running chicken by Michael.
A Dormouse Playing With A Rainbow
Thanks for asking Jiji, and no problem to share this elsewhere. No need to mention me. Have fun with it.
This is an interesting one Jiji and a great image. It is a tempting one for sure and thanks for sharing it here.
There can’t be any glory for that phenomenon the sun must be behind the observer, while the sun seems to be in front behind the mountain.
In my opinion it isn’t a fallstreak either but I can understand why you think it is. A fallstreak hole usually appears in a layer of altocumulus which has the conditions for the undercooled droplets to freeze out resulting in fallstreaks. The band of cloud I see here is no altocumulus and I think it is low hanging stratus which is very probable in the chilly air around the mountain. This a good place for developing low stratus.
Now what do we see? The sun comes form behind the mountain and on top of the mountain are tall trees that will throw their shadows upon any clouds surrounding the mountain. The observer (you?) are in the shadow of the mountain. I think that the streaks you see are the result of the shadows cast upon a layer of cloud below the top of the mountain. The shadows are deceptive because they seem to be above the mountain. Here I found a clear explanation of what I think it is.
Shadows can appear above the mountain
With this explanation I suppose there is a layer of invisible cloud on which the shadows are cast
Any other opinions?
Your ir-images are alienating and appealing as well Richard. Great storm cloud.
Here they come, Ruth. A great view it is.
Duncan, that’s a great sky to fly. Must be breath taking.
Thank you Keelin for kind words. The birds in Before The Rain must have seen it coming. There is a lot happening in that sky. And do you allow me to borrow your title for my next one?
Love your #807 Michael. Very subtle.
Not surprising but Subtle Works is subtle as well Ruth.
Just As It WasLove your #807 Michael. Very subtle.
Not surprising but Subtle Works is subtle as well Ruth.
Just As It WasGreat iridescence and you captured it well in my opinion, Ramona.
The lenticular shape is there indeed. It might be a borderline case but I’d give it the benefit of the doubt and say yes to lenticularis. One of the nice things about clouds is that they not always behave and look like we think they have to. You just have to check all the examples of iridescent lenticularis on the gallery and find some that are not as lenticular as you expected.
Hello Ramona, I think you are right that these are sun pillars. Upper and lower as well. You saw them with the naked eye and you have them on several images. You can be sure in my opinion. Very nice.
The red dot right above the sun is a bit of a puzzle. It is surely there so what can it be? Sun flare? It does not look like sun flare to me with this shape. Maybe this is a part of the corona caused by aerosols at that particular place above the sun. It might not be on each image because the areosols were on the move. Any other opinions?
The title Tossed By The Tides Of Misfortune and what it’s about seem to be very fitting for the turmoil you captured in the sky Keelin. And the atypical lenticular form Michael captured in #115 seems to be tossed too.
Is This Like Looking Through Ones Eyelashes?
