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Flipping over your Flipped Sundog here, Hans. What a delicate beauty. Also, a long overdue compliment to you on your image featured in the Gallery last month (August 10th) – a stunning photo that included a parhelic circle, a segment of 22˚ halo, 120˚ parhelion plus contrails over Haarlem. I’m still looking for the socks that extraordinary shot knocked off. Wow!
Wow, Hans, what a vibrant introduction to Contrails Volume IV! And Michael, your wrap-up to Volume III was absolutely amazing with a clever cloudy Crow appearing to contemplate Vortex Instability. What playful influence will the winds have this time?
Into The Great UnknownWonderful composition and lighting in Arizona B&W#171, Michael. My eye is particularly drawn to the belly of the cloud form with its sense of movement. Well captured!
As for typos, no apology needed — I’m in the same boat! Truth is, I often enjoy the side-trips of mis-reading and mis-hearing. Anecdotes of this nature can be quite amusing. My sis once mis-read the word “decapitalization” as “decapitation”. When she caught the error, her first thought was: Oh, where is my head! There’s some parallel here with cloud observations as they morph before our very eyes inspiring us to read and read again just to see what may come to light anew.
Could You Repeat That?Thank you, Hans! Quite a sweet surprise that was. And what a lovely landscape of Lennies you’ve served us here. Delicious!
Caught this one swimming by~~~
Little Fish, Big PondThank you Hans and Michael for kind replies. Love those twins above separated by the pond! The similarity is quite amazing, both lovely to contemplate. And thanks for a second helping of Holmboe, Hans. The rounded shape in your image there has something of a twin here too.
Single ScoopAh! Michael, I’ve just learned the term you mentioned above has another “t” in it! Be that as it may, the search for “intorus” turned up a rather magical kinetic, slinky-type toy. Both the clouds and the “flippyflux” have a lot of movement, so I didn’t question it one bit. That is, until Hans kindly pointed out (in the Colour thread) that one of the images from this particular series of Cirrus was posted on the Gallery. (Somehow I’d missed it. For unknown reasons, the first click on the Gallery link doesn’t always show the latest postings for me.) I was delighted to see it included there with the classification you’d noted. So thank you both! And here is one last image from that wild, wondrous day.
Cirrus Intortus!Hans: Your question, “Are you in math Keelin?” gave me a good giggle as I come from the other end of the campus! The “Tilde” title was simply inspired by the cloud’s wave. That’s not to say I don’t deeply appreciate the exquisite beauty/poetry of math, because I do indeed, even if it’s a language I don’t speak. There’s a short story here: Years ago, during a lucid dream, I seemed to be hovering in the deep, dark void of outer space, beyond all clouds, beyond all solar systems, with no edge or end to the Sky. And with no image of a dream body, just a sense of pure awareness. Taking advantage of that auspicious moment, I asked, “May I know the meaning of the universe?” In response, a pinpoint of light in the far distance appeared and began to shimmer and morph, and as it unfolded, what emerged was the most breathtaking mathematical calculation I could ever possibly have imagined. The formula grew in astonishing complexity, incorporating biological molecular models along the way, until it filled all space and literally went beyond me. No drugs were involved in this dreamtime adventure and the memory of it has remained vivid for decades. And now I must ask: Are you in math Hans? Your explanation of Tilde made my head swim — in a good way!
Michael, those blues are worth rising early for — gorgeous!
And Hans, I love the subtle shades and floaty feeling you’ve captured in Holmboe Was Here. Can you sent some Holmboe across the pond?
The Element Of SurpriseHans, glad to see you back to black (and white), as well as other forum topics, treating us to splendid new visions.
Different LayersWho knows how far these drifters will go, Roger? Spotted a few here in Napa just a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, they were quite far in the distance, so the shot’s a bit fuzzy. Still, fun to see.
Great sense of dimensional layering in #83, Michael. Love the variety of clouds forms as well. And thanks for your kind compliment. I wasn’t familiar with “Intorus”, so had to go agoogling. Cool! The clouds I caught just yesterday seem to have a bit of that magical, slinky flow.
Returning Tide
Into The Great Unknown
Could You Repeat That?
Little Fish, Big Pond
Single Scoop
Cirrus Intortus!
The Element Of Surprise
Different Layers
Beluga Swims The Blues
Cloud Shroud
