"Nuclear" Cloud formations

toadlettoadlet Registered Users Posts: 192 Major grins
edited November 27, 2007 in Landscapes
I was going for a walk and as I looked in the distance I saw these amazing clouds forming and constantly changing. I love shooting clouds and couldn't let these ones escape. Its amazing when nature puts on a show.
I found a good vantage point on top of a multi-story car park and took several shots. Here are 2 from the day here.




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  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2007
    nice texture!

    the first one DOES look like a nuclear cloud!! eek7.gif freaky!! :D
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  • GiphsubGiphsub Registered Users Posts: 2,662 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2007
    clap.gif Nice! I love catching clouds doing that!
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2007
    Gorgeous cloud captures! They do look like the result of a huge explosion. eek7.gif
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  • cwphotoscwphotos Registered Users Posts: 763 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2007
    Really awesome. Where are you located ? We dont have clouds like that here. Makes me miss Big Sky country.
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2007
    Wonderful
    But I'da been looking around for shelter!
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  • jdmphotojdmphoto Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2007
    Wow! those are fantasticclap.gif I really like the detail in number 2thumb.gif
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  • JenGraceJenGrace Registered Users Posts: 1,229 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2007
    Those look like what we see here in Florida in the summer when an intense storm is forming. Beautiful textures....do you use a polarizer?
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  • FrogwellFrogwell Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited November 22, 2007
    Great pictures!

    They're towering cumulus clouds I think - clouds to annoy pilots.[SIZE=-1][/SIZE]
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  • leaforteleaforte Registered Users Posts: 1,948 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2007
    A bit reminiscent of the view from my backyard on May 18th, 1980. (Mt St Helens)
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2007
    I love billowy clouds like that too! You got some great lighting on them, don't you want to just reach out and touch them???:D
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  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2007
    It's supercell, pretty usual here (South Florida) but not now.
    It's too cold these days, must wait for next shows till May or June.

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  • bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited November 25, 2007
    leaforte wrote:
    A bit reminiscent of the view from my backyard on May 18th, 1980. (Mt St Helens)

    Funny I was upwind camping when that happened. Luckily we in Lacey didn't get any ash, from what I remember. That was long ago.
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited November 25, 2007
    Pretty booming clouds you have there.

    However, talking of nuclear clouds, here's one mwink.gif

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    Ok, ok, it's from a central heating plant. But from this vantage point on the university campus, it looks like the Physics Department blew up.
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  • toadlettoadlet Registered Users Posts: 192 Major grins
    edited November 27, 2007
    JenW wrote:
    Those look like what we see here in Florida in the summer when an intense storm is forming. Beautiful textures....do you use a polarizer?

    These are taken in Australia. Things are warming up down this end of the world coming into summer. I didn't use an filters to take the shot.
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