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Mammatus Clouds Over Grand View Point Road
Island in the Sky Segment, Canyonlands National Park. Utah. April 28, 2016.
Copyright © 2016 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: August 20, 2016
Weather was a huge theme on my long trip this spring. This was taken on the same day as yesterday's photo, running up and down Canyonlands' Island in the Sky segment dodging storms between hikes. While it sounds bad, it was a great way to spend the day. The stone is always there (in our human timeframe, at least), it's the skies that define the photos and make each moment unique.
These mammatus clouds formed early in the day as a huge storm was rolling through. It is hard from the photos to really understand the scale of these formations, but they are huge and amazing.
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| Mammatus Clouds Over Rock and Stone Candlestick Tower Overlook. Island in the Sky Segment, Canyonlands National Park. Utah. April 28, 2016. http://www.aflitt.com/canyonlandsnp Copyright © 2016 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved |
I must admit that I was semi-guilty of the same thing. I noticed the clouds and was in awe of them, but running through my photos today, I realized that I spent too much time with my camera pointed into the canyons instead of towards the sky while these clouds were overhead.
To be fair to myself, though, the weather was creating spectacular sights no matter where you looked at the time.
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| Mammatus Clouds Over Canyonlands Candlestick Tower Overlook. Island in the Sky Segment, Canyonlands National Park. Utah. April 28, 2016. http://www.aflitt.com/canyonlandsnp Copyright © 2016 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved |
Links
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud
