White Ripples on Blue

Each day the sky is a blank canvas, soon filled with abstract moving shapes.

Today’s Cirrocumulus clouds are rare; they’re high ice clouds like Cirrostatus and Cirrus, sitting up in the troposphere, but billowy, with a fish scale pattern. While they’re a sign of fair weather (today was a sunny respite after recent rain), they often mean there’s bad weather coming. (Full confession: I'm no cloud expert, but I was intrigued by this pattern and, well, Google told me.)

I wasn’t planning to photograph cloud patterns today, but the sky was full of these clouds around midday and then they were gone, just like that.

I see a lot of clouds and skies in blip journals, particularly recently, and some of them are quite amazing. Perhaps it’s a sign of the unusual weather we’re having everywhere.

This was shot in RAW, reducing exposure and minimising highlights in processing — the dynamic range was too much for JPG.

Random question if you read this far: How many Blips do you think are published each day? I don’t know the answer to this question, but it seems my feed of recent photos is constantly updating, from one minute to the next.