Climbing into the Clouds

Two days of unbroken Cork sunshine had to end somewhere, and they ended like this. I was in the posh Dunnes in Bishopstown and when I came out the sunny sky became a brooding wall of cloud piling up overhead just as a jet lifted off. From the ground it looked tiny, but that's distance playing tricks; it's almost certainly a 737, already well into its climb and dwarfed by a sky that had spent 48 hours stewing in the heat and finally decided it had had enough. I watched it pick along the edge […]

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Title:
Column Rising Before the Break

Description:
A towering cumulus formation pushes up the right half of the frame, backlit from behind with a warm olive glow that the dark slate sky on the left refuses to match. The color grading leans the whole image into a muted, almost monochromatic register — draining the expected drama of storm light into something quieter and more unsettled. There's a compressed quality to this kind of sky, where the atmosphere seems to be deciding something. Shot looking straight up, which removes any horizon reference and makes the scale harder to read — the cloud could be enormous or just close.

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Spring storms
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Happy Monday.
Looks like we’re finally getting some rain here — very much needed after all the dry days lately. 🌧️🌿


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