Three smaller birds tried to chase away a pair of hawks from an electrical tower. One of them flew off while they chased it. The other waited a bit, then flew off to join the first one circling farther away.
Tag: sky
Pelican above the bluffs
Walked down to the pier on a gloomy day while my car was in the shop. People were pretty good at spreading out and wearing masks (prob. because the city started fining people back in summer).
Among other shorebirds, I saw a group of a half dozen pelicans whirling around and diving for fish.
#birds #sky #pelican #photo #gloomy
Looking…up?…at the moonrise over a rooftop.
A bright sundog next to a glass-sided building
A bright #sundog next to a glass-sided building. The sun is off to the left out of frame. The sundog had a bit more color and more of the spectrum in it as seen through my polarized sunglasses, so I kind of wish I'd taken a shot through one of the lenses, but at least you can see how bright it was.
I haven't adjusted the color on this image at all – except for cropping, it's straight out of my phone.
Found this shot looking through photos from my old phone. It’s from the outdoor part of a mall.
Found this shot looking through photos from my old phone. It's from the outdoor part of a mall.
Some recent sun halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks
Some recent sun #halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks: An upper tangent arc (my first!), the top edges of a circumscribed and 22° circular halo, and most of a 22° circular halo (with bonus contrail shadow on the cloud layer!)
All shot on my Pixel 2 with levels adjusted.
These are all formed by reflection and refraction of light in ice crystals. (A great reference: https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/common.htm )
Also, all seen from Los Angeles, which isn’t freezing…at ground level.
See-through skyscraper?
Backlit clouds casting shadows on the sky.
Gloom ahead, bright blue sky reflected from behind.
Photo taken at: Los Angeles, California
Gloom ahead, bright blue sky reflected from behind. The rain started about 5 minutes later.
Anti-solar rays over LA. Late afternoon, looking away from the sun.
Photo taken at: Los Arboles Park
todo: post as a follow-up to “Rays from the Anti-Sun!”
Orange: Sky, Flames, Balloon…
The first thing I noticed when going through my photos for the orange challenge is that I take a lot of sunset pictures! I made a point to mix it up and narrowed it down to twelve shots, then checked out how they looked together and settled on six. Then I realized I’d forgotten to upload one, and couldn’t bear to leave it out, bringing the gallery up to seven.
Ragged clouds in a blue sky, lit up yellow-orange just like a Maxfield Parrish painting…a bird of paradise flower…a cosplayer at Comic-Con dressed in a jumpsuit, wielding a Portal gun…ocean waves reflecting another sunset, made even deeper orange than usual by smoke from a wildfire….visiting the big orange balloon at Orange County’s Great Park…torches lighting the gateway to Adventureland at night…and finally a sunset shot, silhouetting the Manhattan Beach Pier…
Puffy clouds and reflections
Puffy clouds and reflections. The holes in the side of the building are for a major remodel. They just took down a plywood and scaffolding garbage chute that ran down the outside of the building.
Looking up through the foliage.
Looking up through the foliage.
Facets
Looking up through a transmission tower
Looking up through a transmission #tower. #powerlines #sky #scaffold
Wispy late afternoon clouds
Wispy late afternoon clouds. #sunset #clouds #silhouette #sky
Leaving the Moon
Leaving the Moon on Flickr.
Shortly before sunset, Katie noticed a really yellow quality to the light outside the window, …
Shortly before sunset, Katie noticed a really yellow quality to the light outside the window, like an eclipse (we’re *way* outside its path) or inside the smoke plume from a large fire. I went out to see. As near as I can tell, it was the reddish/golden hour light from the sun reflecting off of the cloud layer above us that was making everything look yellow. J came out too, and while he wasn’t terribly interested in the clouds or sunset, he had fun watching cars and people and looking at stuff down here on the ground.
Power line sunset
St. Patrick’s Day Moon & Jupiter
St. Patrick’s Day Moon & Jupiter on Flickr.
Yesterday I looked at the moon and Jupiter and thought, there’s going to be another conjunction tomorrow, isn’t there? Then I forgot, but fortunately I had to make a grocery run.
I took this photo just minutes ago. If you’re in the western half of North America, and the sky is clear, you can walk outside RIGHT NOW and see this.