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Hello Don, it is Cirrus for sure you spotted and a bit of Altocumulus on the lower half of the picture. Indeed no fibratus nor radiatus. “Just” Cirrus. It must be a coincidence but I check The Cloudspotter’s Guide (by Gavin Pretor-Pinney himself) on a rather regular basis and a few days ago I read this text underneath a picture of cirrus: ‘” Cloud genera don’t have to be defined as one of the species. These are just Cirrus.” On p. 175 when you want to look it up. Quite applicable here I think. When you don’t have the Guide yet it is certainly recommended for its omnipresent humor and great information on clouds. My copy is well-thumbed yet I can say.
Thanks Michael. It is always a joy when something “different” in the sky is happening. It makes my day.
From last year:
Eyebrow Raising Asperitas
The colors and brilliance are sometimes so difficult to catch well of iridescnece but your former three are perfect captures and compositions of iridescence Keelin.
I have to dig in an older series….
The Tail Of A Dog
No eyebrows Don, but instead some delicate colors, especially the yellows on the first one. And an equally stunning Blaze of Color, Ruth.
Here is a French version.
Éclat des Couleurs
Wow, great Ocean Emotion Keelin. The emotion seems to be tempered already in #176 by Micheal where the waves are smaller although they seem to have lost their sense of direction. Two wonderful B&W’s.
Continuing The Wave
Great discombobulation above Daniel (I love the word!) and great chasing clouds as well Don.
Entering The Atmosphere
I love ‘Another Wabbit’ Keelin (nice to prevent him to hop over to the ‘looks like’ thread) and the abstract as well. Arizona B&W#175 is a smooth interruption of the tea party. Someone left this….
Mad Hat
I love all the recent question marks in the sky. Ruth started the series followed by Don and Keelin. I won’t question this. It just leaves me puzzled what the question is.
The last thoughts from Don (with great spiral DNA!) made me check Wikipedia about pareidolia and to my surprise there is quite a difference in the explanation of the subject between the English version and the Dutch version. In the Dutch version I found next explanation which I had to translate because I could not find it in the Enhglish version. Correct me when I am wrong.
“The reason for the existence of the phenomenon of pareidolia is that the brains need to make connections between different elements despite they might not really be there. Especially connections that can alert situations of danger, like the silhouette of a predator. The cost of seeing too much danger (fault-positive) is relatively low in regard to not seeing danger at all. So pareidolia is the result of fault-positives of the human recognizing of patterns. Pareidolia is a an everyday phenomenon and is not to be confused with hallucinations.”
I am still puzzled. I don’t see any danger in question marks. Nor do I see any danger in next one.
Prancing Pony
I love the view of that bit of iridescence Keelin. The scenery seems to be a view over the edge of the atmosphere.
A Nebula Beyond?
Nice composition in Arizona Asperitas#760 Michael. Next one was taken in a hurry a few days ago. I did not have time to change lenses not expecting this when I stepped outside. Nevertheless I did have my camera with me so used the wide angle that was mounted.
Quite a busy sky already Steven. Over here there are much less contrails than before the corona crisis.
Dashed Line
What a great variety of sunsets from everywhere. Welcome in this thread Meryl. Your vertical pano works more than well. Love it. Booties, a Fluffy comforter, a Flambe to enjoy all ending in a well tuned quartet of very different looking sunsets. Are they all taken in one evening Daniel? That must have been a great ending of the day.
Layered
