Sunsets

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- many thanks, ts!

[ardcarp]

Practising my new-found photo-on-the-Forum skills, here's one I took in the BVI two years ago. No tricks...it really was that colour.

[teamsaint]

Stonehenge today, about 3.30 PM.

[Nick Armstrong]

Stonehenge today, about 3.30 PM.

Wow, teams, that is fantastic. Gone all druidical for the festive season? Pick-your-own mistletoe etc?

[teamsaint]

Wow, teams, that is fantastic. Gone all druidical for the festive season? Pick-your-own mistletoe etc?

Damn, should have taken a selfie. The cloak looks rather good on me I think.
Keeping the hems clean with all the mud at the moment is a nightmare though. And I’m not really sure what the other guys think about the red stripes Mrs TS added for me ....

[teamsaint]

Sunrise in S Wilts this morning.



The pink effect probably needed a huge wide angle lens and a much better vantage point to do it full justice.

[Joseph K]

Wow! Very nice.

(Even if my mum does say "Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning".)

[Serial_Apologist]

Altocumulus (bubble wrap clouds) always give the most gorgeous sunrises, and sunsets, though, for sheer drama, a large cumulonimbus to the east, illuminated by the setting sun in the clearance following a day of downpours, is not to be beaten.

[vinteuil]

.

... a large cumulonimbus to the east, illuminated by the setting sun in the clearance following a day of downpours, is not to be beaten.

.

... yeah, but I bet you wouldn't say no to some of these -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud

As for sunsets - these aren't half bad -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51174308

.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sunrise in S Wilts this morning.

Stunning, ts ... Obliging bird, posing in silhouette centre stage

[Serial_Apologist]

.



.

... yeah, but I bet you wouldn't say no to some of these -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud

Yes indeedy - that WIKI aricle goes some way to offering an explanation for their existence, given that "weather", as most people probably think of it, stops at the Tropopause: hence the way cumulonimbus clouds flatten out and often spread out under the "lid" to form that characteristic anvil shape.

[/QUOTE]As for sunsets - these aren't half bad -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51174308

Again, it's altocumulus (and altostratus) cloud which is giving the effect. Those are mid-level clouds, and my guess is that the angle of sunshine has a lot to do with it, combined with the lumpy undersides of such clouds, and the way different colours of the spectrum become highlighted in sequence at sunset.






.[/QUOTE]

[StephenMcK]

I'm struggling to here to get these pictures up and visible in this space. Anyway, links will have to do for now but I took a couple of views of London at the weekend and contrasted them with their equivalents seven years ago.

All if it is a mess really. Planning permission is too often submitted to the relevant authorities with the line ... 'a design of unique architectural value ... a prestigious addition to the London skyline', except that in no time it all, said icon has disappeared behind a new monster.

Square Mile as seen from The Point, Blackheath (SE3):

https://photos.app.goo.gl/H7oNkerRrqhkzsgg9

Isle of Dogs as from The Point, Blackheath (SE3):

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZUKZ2UZZnpATWuREA

[Serial_Apologist]

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...NjGJ01Gp38Jigg


https://photos.app.goo.gl/dno33tWkjVXEQYLT9https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/T0...w1706-h1983-no

Thanks Stephen - terrific: London is so photogenic, and you really get an idea of scale in that shot of Canary Wharf and its architecture contrasted with the Victoran terraces in the foreground.

[StephenMcK]

SA, thanks. I hadn't completed my post properly which has been done now ... out of hand city landscape compared with 2013.

[teamsaint]

We were treated to a wonderful late summer golden sunset tonight in S Wilts.