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I was SO excited to see my second-ever Circumzenithal Arc yesterday. And the sky was already gorgeous.
Hans, what am I looking at here? What is creating those beautiful waves? I imagine it to be turbulence from the airplane, but I think it’s just a natural phenomenon?
Seward Park – Seattle, WA
Most of the clouds today started as contrails. So much better than the months of nimbostratus we typically get during the winter.
Happy 2018!
I wish each post had a like button, such a great thread and these photos are stunning. Alec, thanks for the great articles and scientific details about halo phenomenon, so fascinating. I love learning from this community.
Here (near Seattle, WA) we had a nice 22 degree halo around that stunning super moon last night. With a bonus contrail piercing the moon. Better than fireworks!
Thank you again! This has been a fruitful exchange, and I love this latest pic you uploaded. Haunting.
1.5 days of sun over two weeks…you are lucky! :)
Michael,
These definitely have color but still come across as monochromatic, so I thought perhaps you were taking them in black and white and then filtering to make them look more blue. Remember I’ve been following all of the B&W posts, so seeing color from you is new to me! I guess I didn’t trust it, haha. I am viewing on an iMac so I’m my color quality is pretty good.
Really appreciate the details in your response regarding cloud photography, equipment and lenses. It helps a lot to figure out next investment and/or things to try out. I took a community college photography course about a year ago and started my photography journey with a Sony A6000 mirrorless plus Sony’s standard 16-50mm and zoom 55-210 kit lenses (e-mount). It has a 24.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and packs a lot of bang for the buck, at least compared to more sought after Canon/Nikon DSLR’s. It’s been a great starter camera and I may keep it forever for its portability. All this said, I’m at a point where I’m thinking about upgrading the camera body and/or lenses, and I definitely have a better sense of the gravity (and expense) of that decision now, so information collecting is very helpful.
I do think I’ll rent at least rent some higher end lenses and perhaps a higher end camera and shoot with it for a few days so I can experience the finer difference for myself. Now that I’ve been shooting for a while, I’m so very curious how many of those cumulus water droplets I can see. What brands of lenses do you use? Do you use your telephoto a lot for clouds? I was surprised at how much I find myself switching to a zoom lense.
Regarding software, thanks for the nudge. I have Adobe lightroom and still am using (terrible) iPhoto. I need to take the time to import and organize everything.
I used to live in Phoenix, the clouds and storms are sparse but when they come they are stunning. The storms are magnificent and the upside to desert / valley living is you can see the storms roll in from miles away. Seattle is a low, gray blanket most of the year, but we do get some fantastic variety when the nimbostratus go on vacation.
Thanks again for the very useful and detailed information, I sincerely appreciate it.
