I took this photo recently on my way home from work. It was such a beautiful winter’s day. The afternoon sun was soft and the clouds were so light and fine that it looked as though they had been painted on to the sky. I pulled over for a while just to enjoy the view.
I’ve mentioned before that I love clouds and they do make superb photographic subjects. I’ve just got a copy of The Cloudspotter’s Guide- this book tells me that the wispy clouds right at the very top are called cirrus and are “…delicate streaks of falling ice crystals” which are too high up to actually reach the ground. Delicate as they are, cirrus clouds are usually a sign of worsening weather…and if I recall correctly, there was a heck of a lot of rain soon after this photo was taken.
Well, I hope this high cloud is cirrus – I only just got the book!


I have a growing appreciation of clouds and recently borrowed that book from the library. Unfortunately never got the time to read it and had to give it back :-(
Gavin Pretor-Pinney has been on the podcast for Simon Mayo’s show on Radio Five Live a couple of times and it was an entertaining listen. I’ve Googled and found a copy of the recent episode. (I’m a big podcast fan – great when out walking the hounds!)
A Pig With Six Legs? I have that book, too! There are the most clouds amazing photographs in it. Thanks for the podcast link, I’ll check it out.
:roll: @ me. I should have checked back to see if you had replied before waffling on about that book on your other cloud post!