Obsessively Detailed Doodles of Sagaki Keita

Found at a Friends Blog. Be sure to check it out. Very interesting Site.


Arbyn's Cloud Mind

Venezuela's Everlasting Storm

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The Catatumbo Lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon in Venezuela. It occurs strictly in an area located over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo.

The phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than 5 km (3.1 miles high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. Via: The Presurfer

FLUFFY MC CLOUD

A short film about man's misunderstanding and mixed relationship with mother nature. LINK: Vimeo

NASA Captures the Rising Sun Lighting Up the Midnight Sky

The International Space Station snapped a particularly beautiful photo of the various layers of our globe's atmosphere with the rising sun peeking out to say hello, while touring over the Greek islands around midnight just a few weeks ago.

NASA's Earth Observatory, which posted the photo, pointed out the polar mesopheric clouds, or "night-shining" clouds as they called them, which are seen at twilight. Usually the clouds are only lit up by the sun when it's setting, however this particular shot shows the rising sun inking its rays across the low clouds. [Earth Observatory, Via: io9], Via: Gizmodo

Amazing 400ft Tall Spherical "Cloud" Structure Proposed for London Skyline

An international team of architects and designers has created this stunning center-piece for London's 2012 summer Olympics village. Dubbed The Cloud, three 400ft towers would be joined by giant plastic spheres that serve as both observation decks and projection screens.

The giant bubbles would be structural, decorative, and be used to project weather info, spectator numbers, and race results. They'd be constructed from of a type of plastic called Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), the same stuff used to build the Beijing Aquatic Centre.

The Cloud has been shortlisted in the competition set-up by London's Mayor, and has been called "a sculptural spectacle, and a celebration of technology" by the senior curator of
architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

[The Cloud, Via: BBC, Via: Gizmodo]

Bizarre Cloud Filmed Over Moscow

Very strange looking cloud formation filmed in Moscow. LINK

Playing in the Clouds

Have you ever looked up into the sky and seen figures in the clouds? Horst (aka hb19 on flickr) takes this type of daydreaming one step further. Perfectly aligning his hand and other props, he makes us believe that clouds can be anything we want them to be - if we just use our imagination. It's a great example of taking something ordinary and making it extraordinary. LINK

Storm Chase Clouds

©Mike Hollingshead
(go to this link to read about the history of these photos, it's insane.) LINK
www.extremeinstability.com

Amazing Photos Of Rare Cloud Formations

Breath taking photos. LINK

" Silent Valley Game Ranch South Africa"

These photos were taken in South Africa at the Silent Valley Game Ranch. Love these kind of pictures. LINK

"Sky, Sunset, Clouds Pictures"

The color of the sky is a result of diffuse sky radiation. On a sunny day the Earth sky usually looks as a blue gradient - dark in the zenith, light near the horizon.
Sunset is the time at which the sun disappears below the horizon in the west. The sunset is often more brightly coloured than the sunrise because there is more dust at the end of the day than at its beginning.

UV Absorbing Filters
Ultraviolet filters, sometimes called sky filters, provide a basic reduction in the UV light found especially at high altitudes where the UV-absorbing atmosphere is thinner. UV light causes a blue colour cast in photographs or loss of detail, particularly when photographing over long distances in either colour or black-and-white. Haze caused by UV light should not be confused with haze caused by airborne particles such as smog. The latter absorbs visible light as well as UV light and is not removed by a UV filter. Ultraviolet filters are made with a variety of absorption levels with some tinted to give added warmth and better colours. UV filters may be left on the lens as protection against dust, moisture, scratches, fingerprints and breakage. LINK

"Hawaiian Lenticular"

Here is a rather striking hi-res photo of a lenticular cloud near Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii. LINK