A Cloud Collecting Challenge

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello! I found myself posting cloud pics the other day, and only briefly thinking of posting them here before just putting them up at my lj. Then moth2fic pointed out that we don't seem to be using this comm any more, and that it really was a nice wee collection of eye-candy clouds, and that we should, so... if anyone else is still out there too - maybe we could play with a challenge or two, to get us going again? We can start off really simply, anyway...

Please post one of your favourite cloud pictures to the comm!

I'm not sure it's been a very good year for clouds here, where I currently am - even contrails seem to have been awol (I particularly noticed this the day before yesterday, because suddenly they were back (I wonder what that's all about!) Anyway - I think it'd be nice to see some cloud pics popping up in my flist again - what d'you reckon...?

And here's one of mine, to start with.

I love that there's all sorts going on up there - wispy cirrus clouds, virga jellyfish clouds, cumulus, darker stratus, even a cloud-shadow, I think! - and against such a sunny blue background... (well, it's looking particularly grey here today!) This was taken outside my home in Cambridgeshire, in May 2011.

Back to the skies!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I was so pleased to see byslantedlight' post here! So here's one of my summer (August) pictures. It's taken from our balcony in Portugal, and made me think of Wordsworth's lonely cloud! In fact it was the first of quite a build up and we expected a storm but it never materialised.



Our first efforts sent me off to learn more but I have now forgotten everything and my crib-sheet is in Portugal so if someone else could tag this or tell me what to do I'd be grateful.