Post your wild skyscapes

Even in an area where dramatic sunsets and strange cloud formations are not unknown this was a pretty bizarre formation.

I'd love to see other posts of unusual or dramatic sky-scapes.

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beautiful colours. are they long exposures? it look like the clouds have moved.

magwai wrote in post #10050510
beautiful colours. are they long exposures? it look like the clouds have moved.

Very good question Magwai. No they weren't long exposures...the first was 1/160 at f11 and the other was 1/80 at f10.

If you look closely at the originals (lost a bit in reducing the for POTN) you can see sharp detail on parts of them, but the nature of wind-sculpted clouds like these, and true lenticular clouds which are similar, is that they look smooth. When you look at them through binoculars you find that they are incredibly "busy", forming on one side and dissipating on the other, but all the while looking like polished stone.

This isn't the most wild sky, but it was the leading edge of a storm that was. This was taken at Horse Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoing Are in Minnesota.

This was taken last year after a tornado touched through the area...

Billbo911 wrote in post #10053558
This isn't the most wild sky, but it was the leading edge of a storm that was. This was taken at Horse Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoing Are in Minnesota.

Thanks for posting...I think that's a terrific shot...clouds and sea in balance...

The Ghost of FM wrote in post #10054129
This was taken last year after a tornado touched through the area...



Cheers!

Wow Jeff, you never let us down...that is amazing!

Ricardo222 wrote in post #10054149
Wow Jeff, you never let us down...that is amazing!

Thanks!

I really liked your second shot with that snail shaped cloud! Very cool!

Cheers!

The Ghost of FM wrote in post #10054186
Thanks!

I really liked your second shot with that snail shaped cloud! Very cool!

Cheers!

Thanks Jeff...yes it was pretty weird...looks like a massive jet engine!


Tracypyles - thanks for posting...no you didn't screw it up. Did that hurricane precursor turn into anything much worse?

No, it left it's mark further south. Thankfully.... lol

we had some messy beaches for a bit, some stone taken across the road that follows the shore, but that's really the worst of it.

I'll tell ya though, for a photographer, the waves were the most amazing I've ever seen. We went from Hampton up to York to the Nubble Lighthouse... there were Canon's everywhere !

Ricardo222 wrote in post #10050009
Even in an area where dramatic sunsets and strange cloud formations are not unknown this was a pretty bizarre formation.

I'd love to see other posts of unusual or dramatic sky-scapes.

Altocumulus Lenticularis clouds. One of my favorites along with Altocumulus undulatus and cirrostratus. Oh, cant forget mammatus:

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Great shots so far everyone. Here's one of mine.

slitherjef wrote in post #10054733
Altocumulus Lenticularis clouds. One of my favorites along with Altocumulus undulatus and cirrostratus. Oh, cant forget mammatus:


I like this one too:


More in my flickr (link in sig)

I like them too...and you even know the names of them.
I would appreciate you naming any of the other formations you see on this thread and can identify. I know a few, but not many.

Here are another two...

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