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Not Running => The Fruit Stand (Photography) => Topic started by: JimR on July 23, 2013, 11:02:57 PM

Title: Storm Clouds
Post by: JimR on July 23, 2013, 11:02:57 PM

Took these during a recent heavy and persistent storm and blew through.  The first pics look like a bright blue sky with whispy clouds, but they are really the underside of a heavy thunderhead brightly side lit by the sun, dispersing the light and making it appear blue.  The latter pics show the undulations in the cloud and increasingly red colours as the sun set and lit up the base of the clouds.

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5883_zpse6ed0c67.jpg)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5920_zps01074b20.jpg)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5932_zpsb2ddc9b2.jpg)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5938_zpse9c4a4e1.jpg)

Look closely for the jet passing through the middle:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5945_zps6f379e50.jpg)

Sun falls beneath the clouds, white balance to daylight:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5948_zps75c50025.jpg)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5953_zps4db73052.jpg)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5954_zpse525971f.jpg)

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5973_zps9670b23f.jpg)

White balance auto:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q258/JimboFR1/DSC_5976_zps4d0f6858.jpg)

Title: Re: Storm Clouds
Post by: darksunshine on July 23, 2013, 11:59:27 PM

Very cool pics!  I love clouds.

Title: Re: Storm Clouds
Post by: Schrödinger’s Bat on July 24, 2013, 04:48:41 AM

Those are wicked cool, Jim!

I love the 3rd one. What type of clouds are those that look like little bubbles?

Title: Re: Storm Clouds
Post by: harmony on July 24, 2013, 07:05:15 AM

Beautiful pics.  I love clouds, they fascinate me.   Thank you!

Title: Re: Storm Clouds
Post by: ZiggyStardust on July 24, 2013, 07:46:50 AM

Quote from: Schrödinger's Bat on July 24, 2013, 04:48:41 AM

Those are wicked cool, Jim!

I love the 3rd one. What type of clouds are those that look like little bubbles?

Cool pictures!  I think the bubble-looking ones are called mammatus clouds.  Of course, I could very well be wrong...