Both Sides Now
Featured Work
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Shades Of Summer Storm by coffeebean
A broiling mass of cloud, an unusual summer storm coming over my house, Geraldine, New Zealand. Featured in Both Sides Now group, RedBubble, July 2009 / /
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Crazy Clouds by stephaniek
I took this photo less than an hour ago from my front yard. The thunder was SO loud that the kids ran from their rooms thinking it was a bomb, lol. I calmed my daughter down until my son yelled to her that it was the North Koreans…...not funny!!!!! Redlands, California. /
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Clouds Adrift by Jennifer Murray
Taken with an Olympus Stylus 1010 as-is
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The Angel Painted Skies ! by PaulAlbert
It is a gift from the wonderful heavens above, I watched the heavens over the mighty Rio Grand in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. The gift of rain in these high desert plains is a gift to the senses, our altitude brings us closer to the heavens, with livening the senses from the reverberation of sounds such as the patter of rain to the echos of thunder against the mountains, makes us appreciative of our location as well the Enchanted experience ! on the way walking home from a neighbor, the early days of my new Olympus E-500, standard 14-42 mm lens without additional lense filtration ! around 7:30 PM, the day will end such a beautiful sight. viewed as the Pearl within the clam, a cherished moment shared ! Please view large, it’s straight from the camera ! the smile is in there.
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Mother Nature's Air Show by Riggzy
cloud formations / Nikon D40 Feature in Both Sides now on July 22 2009 Top Ten in 2- A- Week Group’s Clouds challenge / October 2009
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Dramatic clouds by Ian Ker
Taken in bright sunlight down by the River Swan in East Perth, Western Australia. Much more dramatic as a monochrome, bringing out the layers and texture of the cloud formation and de-emphasising the foreground. A variation on just looking up – I have a pair of sunglasses that are really useful in picking out clouds that would look good in monochrome – they seem to highlight the clouds in the same way. Camera: Canon Powershot SX100 IS with 10X zoom lens, 6.0-60.mm, 1:2.8-4.3. Monochrome and sepia adjustments in iPhoto. Featured in Both Sides Now, July 2009 113 views at 21 November 2009
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Storm Cloud 12 by Nicholas Vivian
www.darkr.co.uk – Storm Cloud 12
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Mammatus clouds by EOS20
This series of Mammatus clouds where taken on December 27 2004 just as a really big summer thunderstorm had formed over my house. From what I read, the Mammatus clouds are caused by ice in the clouds becoming heavy and causing the cloud to sag. A very rare site! EOS 20D. If you like this shot, You might also like to take a look at: Mammatus clouds Mammatus clouds Mammatus clouds Both Sides Now, Extreme Weather, Lightning and Storms, Shapes & Patterns, Skyscapes.
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Storm over Barcelona by BaZZuKa
FEATURED on BOTH SIDES NOW
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Cloudy Days by Donna Adamski
Taken from the airplane somewhere over Georgia!! Featured in Both Sides Now – 5/31/09 A cloud is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals floating in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity, such as masses of material in space called interstellar clouds and nebulae. Clouds are studied in the nephology or cloud physics branch of meteorology. On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths. They thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the gases, hence the gray or even sometimes dark appearance at the base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may appear colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, clouds look darker because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorbs solar radiation at those wavelengths. Condensation As air parcels cool due to expansion of the rising air mass, water vapor begins to condense on condensation nuclei such as dust, ice and salt. This process forms clouds. Sometimes an elevated portion of a frontal zone forces broad areas of lift, which form cloud decks such as altostratus or cirrostratus. Stratus is a large dark low cloud deck that tends to form when a stable cool air mass is trapped underneath a warm air mass. It can also form due to the lifting of advection fog during breezy conditions. Clouds can also be formed due to lifting over mountains and other topography. Colors The color of a cloud, as seen from the Earth, tells much about what is going on inside the cloud. Clouds form when water vapor is light enough to rise due to becoming warmer than its surrounding. As it rises it cools and the vapor condenses out of the air as micro-droplets. These tiny particles of water are densely packed and sunlight cannot penetrate far into the cloud before it is reflected out, giving a cloud its characteristic white color. As a cloud matures, the droplets may combine to produce larger droplets, which may combine to form droplets large enough to fall as rain. By this process of accumulation, the space between droplets becomes increasingly larger, permitting light to penetrate farther into the cloud. If the cloud is sufficiently large and the droplets within are spaced far enough apart, it may be that a percentage of the light which enters the cloud is not reflected back out before it is absorbed. A simple example of this is being able to see farther in heavy rain than in heavy fog. This process of reflection/absorption is what causes the range of cloud color from white to black. For the same reason, the undersides of large clouds and heavy overcasts can appear as various degrees of gray shades, depending on how much light is being reflected or transmitted back to the observer. / Other colors occur naturally in clouds. Bluish-gray is the result of light scattering within the cloud. In the visible spectrum, blue and green are at the short end of light’s visible wavelengths, while red and yellow are at the long end. The short rays are more easily scattered by water droplets, and the long rays are more likely to be absorbed. The bluish color is evidence that such scattering is being produced by rain-sized droplets in the cloud. A greenish tinge to a cloud is produced when sunlight is scattered by ice. A cumulonimbus cloud emitting green is an imminent sign of heavy rain, hail, strong winds and possible tornadoes. Yellowish clouds are rare but may occur in the late spring through early fall months during forest fire season. The yellow color is due to the presence of smoke. Red, orange and pink clouds occur almost entirely at sunrise/sunset and are the result of the scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere. The clouds do not become that color; they are reflecting long and scattered rays of sunlight, which are predominant at those hours. The effect is much like if one were to shine a red spotlight on a white sheet. In combination with large, mature thunderheads this can produce blood-red clouds. Nikon D70s / 18-50mm / F8, 1/1600 / RAW / 5/26/09 – 543/381 /
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Recent Work
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Somerset Dawn by trish725
Morning sky in Somerset
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Red by trish725
Morning sky full of various shades of red
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Dolphins in the Sky by trish725
Cloud formation that looks like dolphins playing
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Waving by trish725
Simple cloud formation
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An Evening in June by George Cousins
An evening of boating among the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada, often has the added benefit of quite wonderful skyscapes. Especially in May and June, we get these cloud formations that have a wide variety of shades and colours. At times it looks like a downpour is imminent,but it seldom is at that time of year. This view was taken a few miles off Sidney, a town on the Saanich Peninsula just north of the city of Victoria. The large hump at the right is Salt Spring , the largest of the southern group of islands. BTW, it might appear that this is an HDR image; it isn’t, I prefer not to use it. / Taken June 17, 2009 / Fuji S100FS camera.
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Light consumption by Hélène David-Cuny
Somewhere above…
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Morning Glory by trish725
Red morning sky with houses and trees in silhouette
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Magical Cloud by trish725
Early morning clouds catching the sunlight, beautiful shades of pinks and blues
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God paints the sky by Pam Utton
dusk in FL – Okaloosa County / Steel Rd- Baker FL / I loved the clouds on this one, they look like brush strokes. / Taken w/a Canon PowerShot A590
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HOMEWARD BOUND #2 by RakeshSyal
Captured this image at Gohana, India. It was clowdy and almost sunset. Suddenly the rays appeared, it was my good luck. Nikon D200 Lens, Nikkor 70-300
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Under The Sunset by Constance Widen
“Hold me close, under the sunset / and let God’s reds and oranges soothe your eyes / like this is all a dream” / DANIEL ALEXANDER HOWELL This is a representation of Ted Widen’s photograph, “Pioneer Hay Barn”, one of the old barns that have fallen into disrepair here in the Bulkley Valley, BC in Canada. I’ve used 8.5” x 11” (A4) Daler Rowney Ingres paper with Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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Sky and Swirls by trish725
Sunset with clouds in soft colours muted colours and trees in silhouette
About This Group
A group dedicated to images of clouds that show their magnificence, or stir the imagination. This site is for cloud images that display clouds as the main theme of the picture. This group is for those who enjoy clouds from both sides.
“Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons evrywhere
I’ve looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on evryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all
Join this group if clouds are your passion.
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