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Clouds - 2024


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Time to fire up a new thread for the New Year. Thanks for all the views in 2023. And as usual will be deleting 2023 as I go along to make room for the new images.

 

Starting off the new year with a sunrise.  Can not tell but it was -6F when these were imaged. I must be a little messed up in the head to be out and taking these. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

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

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Taken with the 24-70mm at 45mm...

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First sunset of the year. It warmed up to a whole whopping 20 degrees so it was time to get back at shooting evening colors.

 

Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

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Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and cropped in camera...

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The sunset this evening.

I did not think the sunset would amount to much. But there was some clouds to the west. So I took the camera out to the country to get a good and clear view to the far west. Did not bring the tripod though, as I was not expecting much. So these are handheld through the car window. Blame any soft image on the photographer, not the camera.

 

The sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and cropped in the camera...

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Max red, Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and cropped in camera...

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Deepest red with the electric blue starting to creep in at the top. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and cropped in camera...

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Approaching systems can give some nice visuals.

 

Some late afternoon cirrus, looking northwest. Taken with the 24-70mm at 41mm...

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When I got out to the overpass for sunset. looking east. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

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Looking southwest close to sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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I am going to have to split today into two separate posts. It was one of those days behind the viewfinder.

 

The afternoon session.

 

The Courthouse and the altocumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 27mm...

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The cirrocumulus has wings. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm...

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The cirrocumulus and the tree at my morning sunrise location. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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And now for the sunset session.

 

Local sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Looking east at the color rushing in. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

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Looking south. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Post sunset color, vertically. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Post sunset color, horizontally. Taken with the 24-70mm at 59mm...

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There was a tongue of clouds in the area close to sunrise today, so I gave it a shot.

 

The pre-sunrise conditions. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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The post sunrise conditions. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and cropped in the camera...

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Some faint late-afternoon iridescence in the cumulus. There was some nice cirrus inaction going on also that I could not see from the glare. Glad I took the image and was able to see it.

 

Taken with the 24-70mm at 42mm...

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Another perfect Late Feb. day. Was outside all day watching the incoming system dynamics.

 

A partial 22 degree halo around the Sun as the cirrus encroached the area. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

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

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Looking south at the different cloud types. Taken wwith the 16-35mm at 16mm...

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Looking southeast. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm...

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The different colors for the different cloud types. The white of the highest cirrus. The yellow of the medium alto-cumulus. And the black of the stratus starting to roll into the area. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm...

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Was able to get to the post sunset during a work day. today. Only had time to get home grab the camera and hustle to the municipal lot which is close to the house. Still not enough time to make it all the way out to the overpass yet. 

 

The yellow/orange. Taken with the 24-70mm at 57mm...

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The sort of red/ really just a deeper orange. Taken with the 24-70mm at 53mm and cropped in the camera.

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Nice day outside. Nice day behind the viewfinder.

 

Late afternoon cirrus and contrails. Taken with the 24-70mm at 41mm...

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The sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 53mm...

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The post sunset red flash. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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Cheers!

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After a day of mostly to partly cloudy, around sunset the clouds all decided to take a hike.

 

Looking southeast close to sunset with an old microwave repeater and a new light standard. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm

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Not much towards sunset other than some random contrails. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

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I could see on the visual satellite this afternoon that the edge of this departing system was approaching the Illinois/Indiana border. I thought there might be a chance at some post sunset color so I went out in the country to make sure I had as clear a view to the west as I could get. I guessed right. There was a brief red flash but I was not expecting a sun pillar also.

 

Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and cropped in the camera...

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After work I was mowing the lawn and noticed that the gaps in the clouds was highlighting the altocumulus in a nice way. If I cannot have color, some texture is the sky is all I need.

 

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

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Ditto...

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Back to photographing the sunset, here I am a little more comfortable. Eclipse night was nice with the approaching system.

 

Close to sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 55mm...

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Post sunset color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 61mm and cropped in camera...

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Was out for the sunrise this morning. My usual morning spot with open eastern views, the county fairgrounds, had a dog show this weekend and a dog run set up where I usually set up. So I had to head to a different spot.  Tried the southside park. Have never tried a sunset there yet dso this was a first. Also I forgot the 24-70mm at home on the table so I had to make do with the 16-35mm. 

 

THe reds. Taken with the 16-35mm at 35mm...

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Transitioning to the oranges. Taken with the 16-35mm at 35mm...

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I had forgotten about how good the 16-35 was at making diffraction spikes due to its aperture construction. Always adds a little pop to an image. Taken with the 16-35mm at 35mm...

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These are from last night.

Pre-sunset. Nothing special. Taken with the 100mm and cropped in the camera...

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Was wondering if the Sun would be able to round the corner and give some nice post sunset color. Glad I stuck around as here is the red starting to hit the area. Taken with the 100mm...

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As the red was departing the area. Taken with the 100mm and cropped in the camera...

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Cheers!

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This evening was a departing system sunset. Everything as eroding from the top down and not quite as much west to east. The clouds were really hauling also. And my mania for trying to get the colors right, I did not have the camera set to stun. So the blurry clouds are all on me. Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm...

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