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Clouds - 2023


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Time to fire up a new thread for the New Year. Thanks for all the views in 2022. And as usual will be deleting 2022 as I go along to make room for the new images. Actually, I already have been deleting 2022 to make room.

 

First sunset of the new year that I could get to and was not a stratus fest

Starting off with the yellow. Taken with the 100mm...

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The red starting to roll into the area. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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More of a wide angle view of the red. Taken with the 24-70mm at 47mm...

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Last week I got myself a late B-Day/X-mas present for myself. A new camera. I upgraded to one of the mirrorless Canon R5. I doubled my resolution by going from a 22Megapixel sensor to a 45Megapicxel sensor. The camera works great. The software to deal with the new CR3 files is giving me fits though. I must have a computer issue here that is causing all kinds of hang ups. Anywho, got to try out the neww hardware on a sunset here finally tonight. The stratus finally broke right around sunset.

 

Some crepuscular rays as trhe holes started opening up. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Finally a spot of blue sky! It has been weeks it seems. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Had a little bit of deep orange. Going to have to wait a bit longer to try out the red response. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

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Today was all about the cirrus. Both images were taken from my yard so the trees and wires are part of the package.

 

From the morning sunrise looking east. Taken with the 24-70mm at 41mm...

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Mid-afternoon and a 22 degree halo around the Sun with a contrail and slight contrail shadow for some extra spice. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Nice sunset this evening.

 

Looking southwest pre-sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 33mm...

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Looking southeast as the bottom of the clouds was being illuminated with light. Taken with the 24-70mm at 28mm...

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The sunset looking southwest again. The new camera is doing better with the high contrast images. Taken with the 24-70mm at 61mm...

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And while the red was way far to the west, the reason I am adding this is the foreground detail. The amount of detail is the dark areas is tons better with the new camera. But having twice the resolution of the old camera has a lot to do with it. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Got to try a sunrise with the new camera. A system was just over-running the area and I thought it might have some color with it even if it was a bit frosty outside.

 

The camera handled the various and minute colors well as the color just started on the horizon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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The over-the-top oranges and yellows were captured well with just a bit of blow-out. Taken with the 24-70mm at 47mm...

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Plenty of cirrus around this afternoon and early evening.

 

Started off with a sundog in an old contrail getting ripped to shreds in the winds aloft. Taken with the 24-70mm at 39mm...

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A partial 22 degree halo around the Sun with a small sundog on the south side. Taken with the 24-70mm at 31mm...

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I had hoped that would get some great color post sunset, but those dreams were squashed. The best I could do was pre-sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 31mm...

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A first for the year. I was able to get home and grab the camera, and image the post sunset color after work. Only had time to get to the municipal lot. Did not have enough time to make it all the way to the overpass though. So the trees, wires and lights had to be included.

 

Taken with the 24-70mm at 59mm...

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Was looking up a good part of the day.

 

Some early afternoon cirrus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 28mm...

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Another faint 22 degree halo around the Sun when I got to the overpass for sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 28mm...

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The last of the Sun. Taken with the 24-70mm at 49mm...

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I raced home after work and then raced out to the overpass for the sunset this evening.

 

Looking south as I was walking up the overpass. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Had a brief but noticeable red flash. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Today was all about the alto-cumulus.

 

Early afternoon alto-cumulus and the tree. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Looking east when I got out to the overpass for the sunset. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm...

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A look west at the alto-cumulus pre-sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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And the alto-cumulus with the red flash. Taken ith the 24-70mm at 57mm...

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Good night my darlin', wherever you are...

 

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A small sample of everything in the sky today.

 

Late Morning Alto-cumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Early afternoon cirrus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Early evening cumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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A bit behind in processing again. These are from 3-7.

 

Some weak iridescence at the top of this image. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

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The edge of the alto-cumulus looks so cool to me. Almost like it was one of those sheets of perforated paper that you rip off. The cloud shadow even increases the effect. There is a decaying sundog on the right edge but I was focusing on the alto-cumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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The sunset tonight had plenty of clouds. But the majority of them were cirrus at varying heights. So it made it a very subtle sunset. Only going to share one image. I do not know if you will be able to see the *splotchiness* in the reduced resolution version but I as really pleased at how well the new camera was able to hold all the various contrasts.

 

Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm...

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I am a bit behind again. These are from 3-17.  A nice but chilly departing system sunset.

 

Starting out looking east when I got out to the overpass. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Looking south right afterwards. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm...

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A look west pre-sunset. Found a feature on this camera that lets me electronically to adjust to a 1.6x crop sensor a give a little more reach to a lens. Of course the resolution goes from 8000x5000 to 5000x3000 (approx.) but when you are dumbing them down to 1024x683 anyway, I doubt you can tell the difference. Makes it nice that I do not have to change lens if it is cold out or the conditions are not ummmmmmmmmmmm nice. So this image is taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm but it effectively looks like 112mm.

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Today had a little bit of this. and not a whole lot of that.

 

A partial 22 degree halo around the Sun close to noon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 26mm...

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The cirrus was ripping through the area. Must have had some nigh winds at height. Taken wwith the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Not much going on for sunset. Very minimalist. Taken with the 100mm...

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Could not even get a decent electric blue post sunset. Taken with the 100mm...

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Departing system this evening. Timed out about one hour wrong though.

 

Looking east when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Looking west when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Using the sign as a sun shade and some weak iridescence. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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A nice variety of clouds throughout the day.

Some mid-afternoon cumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm...

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When it got out to the overpass for the sunset. Looking north at some alto-cumulus. The anti-contrail super straight line stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle top of the image. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm...

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Looking south at some also-cumulus/ cirrus with some stratus starting to form ahead of some garden variety stuff to appear in a couple of hours. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Looking west at some cirrus, some alto-cumulus and some cumulonimbi with a stretched anvil top of the upcoming garden variety stuff. Taken with the 24-70mm at 30mm...

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The clearing line for the departing system was approaching the area for sunset.

 

The molted appearance of the sky pre-sunset as the stratus was breaking up. You can see the clearing line in the left side of the image. Looking north. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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Max color dynamics post sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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As the color was fading and everything as not quite as intense. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Cheers!

 

 

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And now for something completely different, but yet the same, a sunrise. 

 

As the color was just starting to creep into the frosty skies. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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You can see how thin things were getting as I got closer to sunrise. Taken with the 100mm...

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And ending the morning with the sunrise. Taken with the 100mm..

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Had a little bit of color for the sunset of 3-30.

 

Started off with a small but vivid sundog (parhelia) on the southside of the Sun. Taken with the 24-70mm at 67mm...

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The gold/bronze hour. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm (cropped in camera)...

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The best color dynamics of the evening. Taken with the 24-70mm at 47mm...

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Cheers!

 

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Way behind in the processing once again. These are from 4-2.

 

The sunset and the yellows. Taken with the 100mm...

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The beginning of the reds. taken with the 100mm...

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The end of the reds. Taken with the 100mm...

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