As a photographer I love photographing clouds, they can make an ordinary image have the wow factor!
Nature is amazing and often rewards us with incredible opportunities for photographing sunrises, sunsets and sun rays piercing through the clouds, creating stunning views. I love to go out on cloudy days to be rewarded with dramatic and vivid images. Clouds make sunrises and sunsets look stunning.
Scientific bit
As the Sun is low on the horizon at sunrise & sunset, sunlight has had to travel through more of the atmosphere to reach us.
When light hits the atmosphere it is scattered, particularly when dust, smoke &
other particles are in the air.
This scattering affects the blue part of the light spectrum the most. So by the time the sunlight reaches our eyes there is generally more of the red & yellow parts of the spectrum remaining.
Dust and smoke particles commonly build up in the atmosphere beneath high-pressure systems, which are generally associated with dry & settled weather.
June Sunset
Sunsets, sunsets and more sunsets! Hope you like these montages of sunsets over the past few weeks, They have been stunning, too early…
June silence
Sorry for the silence but what a hot and sunny week this has been; of course now it is the weekend it’s gone…
What a mild day!
Such a beautiful end to what started as a very wet morning. It is really mild here, with temperatures set to reach 16…
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I love the clouds too but never knew these tech details 😇
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Beautiful cloud shots! I especially like the one titled Dark clouds building in the evening sky – that tree is perfectly placed 🙂
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Thank you, yes I thought so too.
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As a former USAF weather observer in the early 60s love those cloud pics
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That sounds like it would be an interesting job to have! Thank you very much 🙂
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