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Hans – Thanks for your kind comments. It was nice to see you in other than your avatar, too.
Regarding the inversion – Yes that was fun. After inverting it, I changed the white balance point, and added a bit of contrast. A little fun with Photoshop.
Regarding the eyebrows – Your France 2014 photo, and the second Cloudspotter app : I absolutely agree. In the blue, moderator app photo I also see eyebrows where the darkness comes together. It looks a bit like a dark, dense liquid being slowly poured into a less dense, lighter coloured one (yeah – I know that’s a description that can be used to describe clouds). More than that, this one reminds me of the (pulling from my vague memory again) of the fractal looking cloud that sometimes (?) comes through mountain passes. Doesn’t take away from the sheer beauty of the photo; I hope it soon joins the Cloud-A-Day gallery.
I’ll have to keep a look-out for them, try to send some in. Due to the wild rainstorms we get here in Dallas, we regularly get skies very much like the Cloudspotter app photo.
Regarding WMO – I saw an article somewhere (there goes my memory again) about the new, stronger influence of the so-called citizen-scientist. I hope Gavin wins out again!
Daniel, loved your Whispers, so light and feathery. Here I found a larger butterfly teaching a youngster how to fly.
Keelin – Somewhere you mentioned inverting photos (I think you said Michael inspired you). Also inspired by Rebecca Marr, I tried my hand hand at this.
Hans, Michael – I heard mention of (if I caught it correctly) ‘eyebrow clouds’ . I couldn’t find any reference to it, though. Can either of you you help?
Like Jocelyn Northey, I have a bit of trouble translating from ICA or Cloudspotter.
But I think I’m learning.
I believe this is Cumulus Mediocritis.
holy moley, Michael. I never even knew such names existed. I had to look it up. (BTW I found a decent website : www. namesofcloud.com ).
I was taught that : You look pretty much straight up, straighten your arm & hold out you fingers like you’re pointing at the clouds. If the puffs are about 1 finger wide then they’re stratocumulus. If the puffs are bigger – two or three fingers wide – then they’re altocumulus.
Hans, Keelin, Michael, Daniel – and anybody else I missed. You all inspire me so much.
Here is a cloud that just showed up one day in Dallas, out of the clear blue sky(probably I committed a sin by not noticing it a bit earlier).
Hans, Michael – What is the difference in wind shear, or direction, or speed (or whatever) that might cause undulatus in one instance and altocumulus in another instance? Or perhaps the predecessor(?) cloud is different in thickness or in some other characteristic. I hope the question is clear.
The coloring didn’t throw me off, but the solid cloud in the picture did. I usually think of altocumulus as :
On a somewhat less abstract basis :
‘Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
That break upon the seashore of the mind’
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from “The Spanish Student” (1843)
Steve – Hope this e-book helps.
There are several similar topic streams in the Forum, generally centered around a given, specific cloud photo (much as yours is). Might be worthwhile looking through the streams here.
Also –
There are several Local Community groups of cloudspotters. I don’t know where you live, but there might be one clos to you. If so, these cloudy thinkers would certainly be of help.
-Don
