Last Midwest Post: Clouds

[furtech]

There were huge thunderstorms going through the area on the last day I was in Indiana. I do admit they have spectacular cloud formations. When the air is violently unstable, the texture of the clouds can be almost errotic.




Here you can see a front moving in. This was the outer edge of what proved to be a fairly nasty weather system.


We were heading out to a restaurant when I snapped this one of clouds over the barn. I've only seen this form of pillus cloud on rare occasions in the west, usually in small patches. These were on the sides of towering thunderheads.



Those clouds evolved into these shapes. They looked like raised arms.


Still changing...


Later they started to resemble the abs and pects of some enormous torso. Appropriate, since that's essentially what we spent the last week working on (the werewolf).


I'm fascinated by weather: I could have looked at the changing shapes for hours.

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

agreed... those cloudscapes are positively eerily fascinating......!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

*jaw drops*
WOW, but those are beautiful. Thank you for sharing!

[was1.livejournal.com]

Cool shots of the clouds. I love when they have funky textures like that.

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

Those look like they'd be fascinating, since I've seen these cloud structures in person before and can mentally fill in the rest, but its hard to tell from the tiny size of the photos.

I've learned from my own fascination with severe weather is that its difficult to photograph. There was a super-cell forming over Worcester that I had a clear view of, so I stopped and took photos. They came out.. horribly unimpressive, but I can still see them in my mind's eye.

Likewise, deeply buried somewhere I've got a photo of mammatus with sunlight streaking under it I took while in Colorado. Eeriely frightening images, but photos just fail.

The best weather photo I've got was when I lived in NYC. I had my camera set up on a tripod, focussed on the George Washington Bridge during an electrical storm at night. I got lucky and perfectly photographing a bolt hitting a building in Ft. Lee, NJ with the bridge in the foreground. Must find that print and scan....

If I ever have the opportunity to photograph weather again, I'll probably try the movie function on the camera. Not much opportunity to photograph weather in the SoCal basin...

[diadexxus.livejournal.com]

I SOOOO love storm clouds.... especially with lightning!
Thanks for sharing
-J

[theassassinnox.livejournal.com]

Beautiful shots! Thank you for sharing. I'm glad I clicked to see more. *smiles*

~Shadow

[crocuta.livejournal.com]

Cool pics! Thank you for posting them.
I miss living in an area with actual weather :P