A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY - WISE CLOUDS

AMAZING SKIES

Since a few days, we've been having nice warm weather. Finally, it seems that summer has arrived! Most of the time, the sky has also been astonishingly clear, azure blue, dramatically threatening and full of beautiful clouds. Those are always interesting photographic subjects...

I hope that you'll enjoy the following shots (click on the pictures to enlarge) that I took.

A Happy 1st of August (National Day) to all my Swiss readers!!!

CLOUDS LIKE MERINGUE

Once again, this entire week was glum, grey, cold, uninteresting and rainy. Last week's joy and happiness had been washed away, thus leaving us with a depressing feeling induced by the crappy weather we had to go through...

Thankfully, today seems to be more promising and now, I might be able to enjoy some fat, puffy and fluffy clouds and to admire azure horizons as well as to profit of the healing brightness ever so typical of sunny days!

Have fun looking at my cloud pictures (click on the photos to enlarge)...

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

Although, I still have many fall pictures to show you, I have decided to change subject for a while and share my sky collection with you...

I have the (bad) habit of shooting pictures of the heavens above, whenever I see an unusual cloud or just an amazing scene. It is impossible to stop me from doing that as I find it to be an interesting topic!

Today the sky is really threatening, dark and dramatic, because it is loaded with rain and snow that should fall during the whole weekend. The top of the Jura mountains is already covered with snow (the first). Brrrrrr!!!

Click on the pictures to enlarge...

DREARY SUMMER, GREAT SKIES

Although we are experiencing the most tortured and boring summer with it's non-stop changing weather, continuous rains and low temperatures, the clouds that we get are nonetheless fabulous. at least, most of the time (that's when it's not like "mushy peas"...)!

The continual fit of hiccups that the weather is going through result in temperature contrasts that have a great influence on the clouds. In the morning, it can be very grey, raining and extremely unpleasant, in the afternoon the sky can open a little and in the evening the sun can come blasting through the thick layer of clouds and reveal beautiful cumuluses as well as blue horizons (not always though)...