Sunset

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Black, Blue, Bright, Colours, Firey, Maroon, Orange, Purple, Red, Sky, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

When the sun set tonight it as like the sky was on fire. A deep purple/blue shading down to maroon, red, orange and then yellow.

I’m not sure I have quite the right colours on my phone camera, they seem slightly more intense, but that’s to do with how the eye accommodates in low light levels.

Whatever the colours the reality was spectacular. Beautiful. Colourful. Awesome. I would have liked to see the horizon but I was going into choir practice and didn’t have the time to drive over the other side of the hill.

Dragon?

Posted on September 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cloud, Dragon, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Seen at Etruria, SkyLeave a comment

I saw this today above Etruria. It looks a bit like the Welsh Dragon. The head end is a bit wispy… But if you squint?

White hot dragon,

Flying above

Breath of flame spinning out

Into the sky.

Cloudy dragon

Seen on high,

Your wings encompass

Your claws slash,

Icy dragon

Cold and serene

Flying veins of snow

Fire and steam

Melts your heart

Makes mine beat.

Con trail

Posted on September 10, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Con trails, Condensation, Environment, Learning, Moisture, Planes, Sky, Vapour trailsLeave a comment

Condensation trail.

Sometimes people mistakenly call them chem trails and assume that planes are dumping chemicals. What the planes are actually doing is disturbing cold moist air in the atmosphere and the moisture (water vapour) condenses out and leaves a trail in the sky behind the plane. They regularly criss cross the sky above where I live as I live quite close to a couple of airports. Obviously they seem more frequent in the summer. If you want to find out more about clouds there is the cloud appreciation society. They have a page on Facebook.

Pinkish windows

Posted on September 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Environment, Light, Photo, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Purple, Sky, Spode, WindowLeave a comment

When you take a photo of an old window under purple sunsets you can get something of an interesting hue.

Ink turns pink

Sky’s surprise

Window brightened

With sunsets flight.

Glowing purple

Violet hue

Salmon sprinkled

In the blue.

Glint of crimson

Sizzles over

Bleeding sky

Paints walls anew.

Purple skies

Posted on September 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Camera phone, Clouds, Photos, Purple, Sky, Spode site, Sunset5 Comments

I don’t know why but the usual grey clouds you get at sunset (sometimes tinged with pink) came out strikingly purple last night. I have read that there is dust and ash in the stratosphere from a couple of volcanoes which is giving the sky a violet tinge at the moment. Maybe it’s that or maybe its my camera phone. Anyway I will post a couple of these to the cloud appreciation society Facebook page. Maybe they can explain.

Sunset

Posted on September 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colour, Grey, Hill, Landscape, Orange, Photo, Sky, SunsetLeave a comment

Sunset tonight, I saw the light on the clouds so I drove over the hill to see it.

That’s the trouble living on the east side of a big hill. It gets in the way of sunsets!

The clouds appeared dark grey but on the photos they have a blue hue. I’m not sure if that was because of the way my eyes adjusted to the light or the way the phone camera reacted. The sky was bright orange as I looked at it but appears brighter in the photo.

I tried to get a close up shot of a bat that was flitting around low to the ground, but it was only visible as it crossed the bright band of orange.

Clouds

Posted on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Brampton museum, Cannon, Clouds, Grass, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Park, Sky, Staffordshire, Trees, WhiteLeave a comment

We were out at the Brampton this afternoon and I took some photos of the sky but including other things in the foreground. Like trees, seed pods, and even the cannon that is on the carpark. On one of them it’s almost like a couple of people kissing. Clouds are amazing.

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