14126077 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14125928 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14125041 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14125555 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14125236 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14123935 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14090994 - Stars and clouds over Mesa Arch in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.14126135 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.14124359 - Blue sky and clouds over Graceful Arch in a remote desert near Aztec in northwestern New Mexico.71442276 - Argentina; Fire land; Southern Patagonia; Beagle Channel on the Argentine side; View of the mountain peaks of Isla Navarino in Southern Chile; dark clouds in the bright yellow evening sky71440150 - The Bismark Tower in Jena am Forst in the forest with a blue sky and veil clouds, Jena Thuringia, Germany13998776 - A view of the great April aurora show of April 23,2023,looking to the south,with multiple curtains across the sky forming parallel ribbons from east to west at the zenith. Taken from home in southern Alberta,Canada. Dark clouds appear in silhouette in front of the higher aurora.13998596 - The infamous "Green" Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passing by reddish Mars with both in the constellation of Taurus on the night of Feb 11,2023. The comet was 2° south of Mars this night. Mars was embedded in some of the dark obscuring dust clouds in Taurus,creating the dark patchy appearance to the background sky. The comet's coma glows cyan due to emission from diatomic carbon molecules,a common trait of comets. The dust tail and faint ion tail are just visible.13998286 - The conjunction of the waxing crescent Moon with Venus (bright and below) and Mars (dim and to the left) on June 21,2023,summer solstice evening,with the worlds in clouds in the colourful twilight sky. Earthshine is just visible on the dark side of the Moon,despite the obscuring clouds.13898158 - A fish-eye lens / all-sky view of the STEVE aurora arc across the sky and in clouds on May 6, 2018, from home in southern Alberta, with a diffuse aurora to the north casting streaks of purple up the sky, and a green glow along the horizon. This night the aurora was very active to the north and east with a terrific display in Churchill, Manitoba about an hour before this, matching the usual STEVE characteristic of him appearing as a major storm subsides.13889142 - Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Ravenna, Basilica Di San Vitale, Brick round tower and stone church against sky with clouds13835847 - A field of solar panels at a solar power plant under a blue sky with puffy white clouds. Les Mees, Provence, France.13829477 - Split shot of a large barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) with the wreck of the small steam ship Kaffir in the background. A moody cloudy sky with textured clouds is above. Ayr, Scotland.13820441 - Mid-day clouds in blue sky reflected in Nugget Pond in Denali National Park, Alaska.13796559 - Sunset sky with clouds over ocean seen from La Boca, Cuba13776764 - Large wind turbines and a flowering canola field with blue sky and clouds, East of Pincher Creek; Alberta, Canada71447941 - Chile; Southern Chile; Aysen region; Mountains of the southern Cordillera Patagonica; on the Navimag ferry through the Patagonian fjords; Canal Messier; low-hanging rain clouds and blue sky alternate71442277 - Argentina; Province of Tierro del Fuego; on the border with Chile; Beagle Channel; Snow capped mountain peaks of Isla Navarino in Southern Chile; dark rain clouds in the orange sky of the setting sun71440151 - The Bismark Tower in Jena am Forst in the forest with a blue sky and veil clouds, Jena Thuringia, Germany71438160 - Treetops of a coniferous forest with a blue sky and a few clouds, Zühlsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany13900204 - A vertical panorama of a 22° solar halo in the sky over the Natural Bridge and waterfall on the Kicking Horse River in Yoho National Park, BC, June 6, 2016. The day was quite hot but this shows that you can get haloes even on a hot summer day, as the ice crystal clouds causing the halo are high up and cold!13898926 - A single image of bright noctilucent clouds in the dawn sky over a prairie pond near home in southern Alberta on July 7, 2020, with Venus bright as a “morning star” at right above Aldebaran. Comet NEOWISE was in the scene but hidden behind dark weather clouds here.13898812 - Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) over the still waters this night of Crawling Lake in southern Alberta. This was early in the evening with the sky still brightly coloured with twilight. The comet was in the southern part of Ursa Major between the pairs of stars called Tania and Talitha. The clouds that were present nicely framed the scene and reflected in the water as well. The comet was too high to be visible as a reflection at this time.13887913 - Mountain Meadow Framed By Mountains And Trees With Blue Sky And Clouds Kananaskis Provincial Park; Alberta Canada13844846 - Sunrise sky and clouds over forest at Greenwich, Prince Edward Island National Park; PEI, Canada. .13776771 - Large wind turbines and a flowering canola field with blue sky and clouds, East of Pincher Creek; Alberta, Canada13775714 - Skyscraper with glass facade reflecting blue sky and clouds; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada71437929 - Early morning view of Trifels Castle with clouds in the sky, Annweiler am Trifels, Southern Wine Route, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany13999483 - The rising of the Full Moon just before Easter weekend,on Wednesday,April 5,2023,with Good Friday two days later on April 7. The Moon appears quite pink and in a bright blue sky,as moonrise this night was a few minutes before sunset. However,the Sun was in clouds to the northwest and not lighting the foreground.13998361 - The rising Full Moon of January 6,2023 over the Badlands of Horseshoe Canyon,near Drumheller,Alberta. Here the Moon is set in the pink Belt of Venus and with dark blue crepuscular rays (or more correctly,anti-crepuscular rays) converging on the point directly opposite the Sun. The rays are shadows cast by clouds in the west,which parted enough for a few moments for the setting Sun to light the foreground,making for a colourful contrast between ground and sky.13900496 - An arc of modest aurora borealis (Northern Lights) across the northern horizon, above a prairie meadow in the light of a bright waxing gibbous Moon, a day before Full. This was just after midnight on July 11/12, 2022 when the sky was also still lit by summer twilight colours, and with a weak display of noctilucent clouds also visible low in the northwest at left. The auroral curtains exhibit the usual green band and rays, but also upper altitude reds and purples and a faint blue tint at the very tops where the aurora is lit by the Sun. The aurora was never bright this night (Kp Index was 3 or 13899001 - Venus (at left) and Jupiter close together in the dawn sky, and to the east of Scorpius, here at right, with reddish Antares between the trees. This was January 26, 2019. The two planets were closer together earlier in the week but clouds got in the way! Illumination is from the waning gibbous Moon off frame at right.71433366 - A monolith of the Spitzkoppe Inselberg Group in the savanna under a blue sky with fair weather clouds, Namibia, Africa13999638 - This is a roughly 150° panorama of the sunset sky at Sunset Point,Bryce Canyon,Utah,taken as the last light of the Sun was illuminating the distant buttes. The sky has subtle dark rays converging to the anti-solar point,the point opposite the Sun. These are anti-crepuscular rays – shadows cast by clouds in this case,such as the one at left.13998784 - The conjunction of the waxing crescent Moon with Venus on June 21,2023,summer solstice evening,with the worlds in clouds in the deep blue twilight sky.13899467 - A superb and extensive display of noctilucent clouds at dawn on July 16, 2022, with the clouds reaching up to the zenith as the sky brightened. Capella is the star right of centre; Venus is rising at lower right. This is looking northeast to the dawn twilight.13898633 - A panorama of an arc of noctilucent clouds over a ripening field of yellow canola, on July 14, 2022 from southern Alberta near Hussar. This was about 11:20 pm MDT with the NLCs near their peak. They reached a little higher when they first appeared a few minutes earlier in the brighter sky, but capturing them is always a balance between getting them at their maximum height vs. the darkness of the sky background to make the fainter structures stand out. The foreground is illuminated mostly by twilight, and I have brightened it to bring out the canola colours and the colour contrast between earth13898569 - Venus above the Pleiades star cluster, M45, on April 4, 2020, in the twilight and moonlight. Light from the gibbous Moon illuminated the sky, so no long exposure would reveal much detail in and around the Pleiades. Venus passes close to the Pleiades only every 8 years. It was closer the night before, but alas, there were clouds! Some light cloud this night added the glow.13897553 - The partial eclipse of the Sun, October 23, 2014, as seen from Jasper, Alberta, in this case shot through thin cloud but that makes for a more interesting photo than one in a clear sky. This is still shot through a mylar filter, on the front of a 66mm f/6 apo refractor using the Canon 60Da for 1/25 sec exposure at ISO 100. The colours are natural, with the mylar filter providing a neutral “white light” image. With the Sun dimmed a lot by cloud, the longer exposure allowed picking up light and colours in the surrounding clouds.13829479 - Split shot of a large barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) with the wreck of the small steam ship Kaffir in the background. A moody cloudy sky with textured clouds is above. Ayr, Scotland.13829478 - Split shot of a large barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) with the wreck of the small steam ship Kaffir in the background. A moody cloudy sky with textured clouds is above. Ayr, Scotland.71443330 - Yellow, red and brown mountains against a blue sky with fluffy clouds.13998604 - The conjunction of the waxing 4-day-old crescent Moon below the Pleiades,and set in a slightly hazy sky on March 25,2023. The haze adds the colourful "lunar corona" halo around the bright crescent of the Moon from diffraction effects in the high icy clouds. Shot before the sky got dark,the remaining twilight adds the blue to the background sky. Earthshine is visible on the dark side of the Moon.13998490 - A framing of the northern winter sky constellations of Gemini (left),Auriga (top) and Taurus (bottom right). The Messier star clusters M35 in Gemini,and the trio of M36,M37 and M38 in Auriga show up well. The large nebula at upper right is NGC 1499,the California Nebula in Perseus. The Flaming Star,IC 405,and other IC nebulas in Auriga are right of centre. The small round nebula at bottom is IC 2174 in northern Orion. The dark lanes of the Taurus Dark Molecular Clouds are right of centre. Mars is just below centre in Taurus,adding an extra star to this already rich area of sky and matching Ald13998445 - The rising Full Moon of January 6,2023 over the Badlands of Horseshoe Canyon,near Drumheller,Alberta. Here the Moon is set a dark blue crepuscular ray (or more correctly,anti-crepuscular ray) converging on the point directly opposite the Sun. The ray was a shadow cast by clouds in the west,which parted enough for a few moments for the setting Sun to light the foreground,making for a colourful contrast between ground and sky.13900310 - Sunset clouds and colours on December 3, 2013 from Massai Point, Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona. This is a 7-frame HDR High Dynamic Range stack to compress the high contrast from the bright sky and dark foreground into one image. Combined with Photomatix Pro. Taken with the Canon 5D MkIi and Canon 24mm lens at f/8. From images _MG_6996_6997_6998_6999_7000_7001_7002 taken at 2/3rd stop increments.13899093 - A “cloud streak” photo made using the same techniques as in stacking star trails only its the clouds trailing, or streaking. I shot this Canada Day, July 1, 2015 from Scotsman Hill overlooking Calgary, awaiting the fireworks. This is a stack of 110 frames, merged with Advanced Stacker Actions using the Ultrastreaks action. Despite the blending, the ~ 8s gap between exposures still led to gaps in the streaks - you’d have to shoot at 1s intervals to eliminate them. To smooth out the gaps I added a duplicate layer for the sky with a Radial Blur filter applied to further streak the clouds. I also 13887886 - Red Barn In A Flowering Canola Field With Blue Sky And Clouds South Of High River; Alberta Canada13848958 - Jeffrey Pine tree silhouetted against sunrise sky with pink clouds; Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, California.13848601 - Way to the ocean in the beach and lagoon of Fakarava, Tuamotus Archipelago French Polynesia, Tuamotu Islands, South Pacific. Summer vacation concept. Beautiful turquoise clear water and blue sky with some white clouds. Fakarava, an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group, French Polynesia13848083 - Mount Adams from Takhlakh Lake, with lenticular clouds in sky; Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington.13847377 - Colorful clouds in the predawn sky over Mount Fitz Roy and the Rio del las Vueltas. Los Glaciares National Park near El Chalten, Argentina. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Patagonia region of South America.13845546 - Tropical palm trees and lagoon of Fakarava, Tuamotus Archipelago French Polynesia, Tuamotu Islands, South Pacific. Summer vacation concept. Tropical coconut palm trees, coral gardens, beautiful turquoise clear water and blue sky with some white clouds. Fakarava, an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group, French Polynesia13845447 - Green field of wheat and cumulous clouds in blue sky; Palouse, Washington.13798064 - Croatian flag against blue sky and clouds, Ston, Croatia13796560 - Sunset sky with clouds over ocean seen from La Boca, Cuba13777061 - View from directly below the cables and pods of the London Eye with a blue sky and clouds in the background; London, England13899965 - A superb and extensive "grand display" of noctilucent clouds at dawn on July 16, 2022, with the clouds eventually reaching up to the zenith as the sky brightened. Many ripples and wave structures are visible in the clouds.13899645 - Jupiter (brightest), Saturn (to the left), and the Milky Way over the Saskatchewan River and the area of Howse Pass, on July 26, 2020. Mount Cephren is at left; the scene is framed to include Cephren. The nebulas and star clouds of the galactic centre area at right show up well on this very clear night. The bright Small Sagittarius Starcloud, aka M24, is most obvious, flanked by the star clusters M23 and M25 to the side, and the nebulas M17 and M16 above, and M8 and M20 below. The fuzzy globular cluster M22 is to the left of the large Lagoon Nebula, M8. Green airglow tints the sky.13898842 - The two-day-old waxing crescent Moon with Earthshine, above Mercury at right, then 4 days past its greatest elongation from the Sun, in the evening sky of May 2, 2022. The star Aldebaran is at left, and below Mercury to the right is the Pleiades, just visible in the twilight and thin clouds.13898354 - Orion at right, rising into the dawn sky on an August morning at Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 26, 2019. The waning crescent Moon is bright in the clouds at left. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are at left of the tree,; Procyon is rising to the right of the tree. Taken from the Two Trees Road — this is one of the trees!13890385 - Castle Crap Da Sass On The Lake Front With Snow-Capped Mountain And Lake Silvaplana With Blue Sky And Clouds; St. Moritz, Grisons, Switzerland13887195 - Snow Covered Mountains With Blue Sky And White Clouds Near Bozeman; Montana United States Of America13847535 - Ocean water, sky and white puffy clouds; Tanapag Lagoon, Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands.13776767 - Large wind turbines and a flowering canola field with blue sky and clouds, East of Pincher Creek; Alberta, Canada13776765 - Large wind turbines and a flowering canola field with blue sky and clouds, East of Pincher Creek; Alberta, Canada13881813 - Turquoise water of the Caribbean Sea with white, puffy clouds filling the blue sky and a blue hammock hung between the coconut palms at Caravelle Beach, Sainte-Anne on Grande-Terre; Guadeloupe, French West Indies13793775 - Quiver tree leaves with cirrocumulus floccus against a blue sky with clouds; Namibia13881787 - Turquoise water of the Caribbean Sea with sailboats anchored along the horizon and cumulus clouds filling the blue sky off the shore of the beach of Sainte-Anne on Grande-Terre; Guadeloupe, French West Indies13778295 - Old Irish gravel road leading to steep cliff and mountains in the sunlight on a sunny day with clouds in the sky; Eagles Rock, County Leitrim, Ireland13773061 - Close Up Of Colourfully Painted Half Timbered Stone Buildings And Shutters With Blue Sky And Clouds; Treguier, Brittany, France13895789 - Clouds in Sky, Northern Cape, South Africa13884413 - Beach, ocean, sky, and clouds above Cape Hatteras.; CAPE HATTERAS, NORTH CAROLINA.13882186 - Herd of American bison (Bison bison) grazing and keeping warm near the famous geyser, Old Faithful, with clouds of steam rising into the clear blue sky in the Upper Geyser Basin; Yellowstone National Park, United States of America13772364 - Brilliant Colourful Morning Sunlight Glow On A Snow Covered Mountain Range And Clouds Framed Between Evergreen Trees In A Snow Covered Field With Blue Sky; Alberta, Canada13893771 - Storm Clouds in Sky, Texas, USA13777758 - Dramatic colourful sky/clouds at sunset with silhouette trees and mountain range in background; Calgary, Alberta, Canada13777746 - Hay bales in a green field with mountains, blue sky and clouds in the background, North of Waterton; Alberta, Canada13773702 - Steaming Pool At The Grand Prismatic Spring With A Streak Of Orange Sulphur Deposits Stretching Towards Low Forested Hills On The Horizon And The Reflection Of A Blue Sky Dotted With A Few Puffy, White Clouds; Wyoming, United States Of America13772369 - Frosted Evergreen Tree Framed By Frosted Tree Branches With Blue Sky And Clouds; Calgary, Alberta, Canada13885315 - Views from the Fjallsarlon Glacier Lagoon of the blue ice of the Fjallsjokull Glacier terminus which stands out against the grey clouds covering the blue sky,located at the south end of the famous Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull in Southern Iceland; South Iceland, Iceland13881751 - Turquoise water of the Caribbean Sea with white, puffy clouds filling the blue sky and coconut palm line the seashore at Plage de la Caravelle, Sainte-Anne on Grande-Terre; Guadeloupe, French West Indies13774448 - Human Figures Carved Into A Wall And A Tower With A Statue Against A Blue Sky With Cirrus Clouds; Andalusia, Spain13773065 - Treed Valley Riverside Town, Stone Bridge And Boats In The Harbour With Blue Sky And Clouds; Dinan, Brittany, France13772613 - Close Up Of A Snow Covered Mountain Peak With Blue Sky And Clouds; Banff, Alberta, Canada13894034 - Sun and Clouds in Sky, Poland13885324 - Close-up of the mountainous terrain of the East Fjords with a blue sky and misty, mountain clouds, creating a stunning landscape to travel through; East Iceland, Iceland13884927 - Clouds form in a blue sky over the steam from hot springs along the mountain slopes in the Lares Valley; Cusco, Peru ; Lares Valley, Cusco, Peru13884580 - Dramatic cirrus clouds in a blue sky over the ice and snow on the wind-lashed Anderson Island in Antarctic Sound; Antarctica13777747 - Panorama of hay bales in a green field with mountains, blue sky and clouds in the background, North of Waterton; Alberta, Canada13773712 - Silhouetted Sculpture Of A Person About To Throw A Paper Aeroplane, Called Utkast, By Kare Groven, At Gardermoen Airport Against A Mixture Of Grey Clouds And Blue Sky Just After Sunset; Akershus, Norway13772365 - Sun Breaking Through The Clouds Partially Lighting A Snow Covered Mountain With Clouds In The Sky; Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada71417321 - A row of lonely fisherman's huts stand on the stone beach. Menacing clouds in the sky. Black, white. Helgumannen fiskelage. Faroe, Gotland County, Sweden.71409992 - The peaks of Pilatus-Kulm in clouds with red skypage suivante
