4 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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Laurence Green says: A pity authors who post photos onto the Photo Gallery do not respond to questions asked by viewers.
Laurence
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Sharon says:
What is going on with the two “lights”? One is the moon but is the other a separate light source? The way they are lined up adds to the mystery of the photo. Lovely composition.
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Laurence Green says:
Many thanks, John, for sharing this rather rare view. I would warmly urge members to take a look at John’s “For more, see here” introduction / invite to see more of these graceful rare clouds.
Laurence
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4 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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Henrik Kolden, Norway says:
Beautiful “Nordlys” as we call Northern Light in Norway. Many years ago I saw some spectacular Aurora Borealis. But that was before I had camera. In Northern Norway Aurora Borealis is much more common than in Western Norway, where I live. However I use to send calendars of the phenomenon to friends abroad.
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Magic, John! says:
Beautiful “Nordlys” as we call Northern Light in Norway. Many years ago I saw some spectacular Aurora Borealis. But that was before I had camera. In Northern Norway Aurora Borealis is much more common than in Western Norway, where I live. However I use to send calendars of the phenomenon to friends abroad.
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Laurence Green says:
Like Bryan, I fully concur with his comments. I have always held a long wish to see such a spectacle. No such luck yet!
On the BBC News Science page there are some really lovely photos of a rather rare Aurora Borealis seen over the southern parts of the UK. Needless to say, where I live in Yate (11 miles – 17.7 Km- NE of Bristol) we had cloud filled skies – as usual – so I could not witness this type of this wondrous event. Here is what I missed:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26378027
Laurence
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bryan says:
AWESOME!!!! I’ve only ever seen such sights on T.V. or on the internet. Many Thanks for sharing this Beauty John, It’s Fantastic.
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2 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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One thought on “John Rowlands”
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Laurence Green says:
I like the “letterbox” format of this photo as too, the almost monochromatic theme portrayed here. Very good shot and quite atmospheric.
Laurence
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2 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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Beate Blecher says:
…or made from candy floss, twisted into shape – a very “alive” sky!
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3 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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John Rowlands says:
What is interesting is the vertical light; this is not an artefact of the lens or camera. I’ve never seen this phenomenon before, but assume there must be ice crystals involved somewhere along the line…
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12 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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John says:
Baumgartner’s cameras certainly were wide angle! If you take a pair of binoculars to the seaside and look carefully, you can notice the curve of the earth in a forwards direction, but not across the line of sight. Same goes if you move your head up and down when there’s land at a critical distance from the observer – you can see it when standing up, but not when crouching down. Same applies when coming down a hill at the seaside. But to notice the curvature of the earth so that is is clearly ‘there’ to see needs considerable altitude, though I wouldn’t repeat others’ guesstimates – it certainly isn’t noticeable to any extent from a commercial airliner at 30-40,000 feet. In my image, things are closer than some people are perceiving, and the altitude much lower than they assume.
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Richard says:
Does anyone know how high a person would have to be before the curvature of the earth is noticeable? (Photos from Felix Baumgartner’s leap from 37 km show a pronounced curvature, which I think is wide angle lens distortion, not what he could see from the capsule.)
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Dear ex-Met. Office. person.
When you look out over the sea, do you see a horizon that is curved in azimuth? No. Do you see one from 2,500 feet? No. That’s why this horizon also isn’t curved – there’s none to perceive.
If there was any curvature, lens distortion would swamp anything else.
Let’s hope the Met. Office has updated its understanding of the Earth since you left!
J. (pilot of 10 years, never seen a curved horizon yet, at least from my kind of altitudes.)
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J a.k.a. Granny Weatherwitch, ex- U.K. Met. Office says:
Hope previous comment got through OK as it said it didn’t !!!
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J a.k.a. Granny Weatherwitch, ex- U.K. Met. Office says:
Very interesting, especially the layer of murk thinning with altitude above the layer BUT if the layer is shown beyond the far hills, why is it flat? I would think that a horizon over 20 miles away would show some curvature, and so would anything following its line. Maybe the flatness is something to do with the type of lens used on the camera? Will some photo-whizz-kid please enlighten me on this? Thanks ;-) GWW
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Beate Blecher says:
This is a beauty, John – one of the masterpieces of this whole show.
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Carolyn Johannesen says:
Wow an “inversion boundary layer”. This photo is amazing, John. It certainly draws a line ;).
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This is my kind of photo – love mist in the hills! Lovely image, John
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2 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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Very cool photograph, John!
Beautiful colour, thanks for posting!
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4 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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Beate Blecher says:
I can only say, Perfect, John!! (Awesome, work of art, very cool having been said…it’s all of these!)
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4 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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l am very intersted in cloud formations and their meanings doesany one know of a book l can buy that say for exampled :I keep seeing clouds of like a arro inthe sky and faces and horses and animals . please could you e-mail me or call me on 07500445945 or write to me at 29, Graig-y-coed , Penclawdd, swansea, west glamorgan, WALES SA4-3RN U,K, Thank you yours sincerly sandra shepheard .
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Juel Hilton says:
Looked very much like a packed camel to me.
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Kaz says:
I name this cloud….Brian! (for those of you who can remember him in the Magic Roundabout)
Did Brian float by slowly in a stately snail like way?
Actually I thought he looked like a small dragon.
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Beate Blecher says:
A somewhat proud snail, holding its head high, trying to impersonate a resting camel…fun!
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5 thoughts on “John Rowlands”
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Carolyn Johannesen says:
This is really beautiful, John. It must have been so wonderful to see. It reminds me of a nebula :D
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bryan says:
Awesome. I read where this particular showing of the Northern Lights was so bright, it showed up as far south as Mississippi here in the States. Seen some wild shots so far on the internet, and this is another wild one John.
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Susie NZ says:
What an incredible sight – such a delicious shade of green, my favourite colour, thank you John for sharing your view of the aurora
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4 thoughts on ““Shadow”, taken from Parys Mountain, Anglesey.”
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Johanne Paquette,Canada says:
I love the fact that the contrail produces a shadow, that's quite special ! :0)
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2 thoughts on “Asperitas, circa 1995, Anglesey”
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Anthony Skellern says:
Took you long enough to get the film developed, John :0-)
Seriously though, there looks to be some Kelvin-Helmholtz
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Carolyn, UK says:
Neat, John, Asperatus back then, they were just getting the wave going in Wales :)
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Oooh! Beautiful! Love the pile upon pile of the lenticularis. Well, the whole scene actually! Thank you.
Love this photo. Snowdonia is a wonderful place, and this picture adds to it’s mystique.