Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Magnificent Cloud Formation

Have a look at the pictures below—and What they want to tell you

Florence, Italy

Magnificent Cloud Formation

As Frank Slack stood over the Arno river, the combination of the setting sun  and clouds rolling in produced this magnificent yellow and gray sky. 

 

Huntsville, Alabama

Magnificent Cloud Formation

Thomas was lucky enough to witness these low, fast-moving clouds one night over Jones Valley. To produce the blurred effect, he set the camera to a 30-second exposure.

New York, New York

Magnificent Cloud Formation

While walking the Brooklyn Bridge, Ben Brown captured this red sky moment minutes after a summer shower soaked the city

 

Rio Vista, California

Magnificent Cloud Formation

Looking out toward Mount Diablo from the patio of her home, amateur photographer Rebecca snapped this mixture of red clouds and a blue sky. 

Walla Walla, Washington

Magnificent Cloud Formation

When the sun is unusually high and the temperature is hot, sometimes a circumhorizontal arc like this one forms—which was immortalized by Lynn Suckow one summer afternoon.

Valencia, Spain

Magnificent Cloud Formation

According to Marialuisa Wittlin, these lens-shaped clouds loomed over the mountains all day and she was able to get a shot of them before the sun finished setting—when this lovely scene disappeared.

Buskerud, Norway

Magnificent Cloud Formation

For almost an entire month in January 2008, these nacreous clouds—which are known for their mother-of-pearl colors and only form in frigid temperatures—graced the Scandinavia skies. 

 

Central Illinois

Magnificent Cloud Formation

When sunlight is diffused through thin clouds with uniform water droplets, it produces vivid colors like these in the photo above—a phenomenon called iridescence.

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