From a few months ago, as wildfires were starting to spread across Oregon. This was the last clear night, and the smoke was just starting to roll in. I was out on a walk in the evening and caught this amazing formation highlighted by the sunset. Not sure which exposure setting I like more, so here’s both.
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I caught this photo out my office window a while back. Best guess is a wave cloud. Whatever it is, it looked really neat.
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Well, I’m doing just wonderful at posting regularly, aren’t I?

I was taking a flight recently for a work trip, and when I looked out the window, I saw the entirety of a rainbow. There is some complex physics and geometry that goes into rainbows – there are actually 5 distinct orders of rainbow, but you usually only see the first (and sometimes the second). Rainbows are also circular, but the bottom half is usually hidden by the ground. It all has to do with the way that light bounces around in water droplets.
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I was back in Colorado for Christmas last year, and caught a few really neat cloud formations. As best I can determine, they’re lenticular clouds. Whatever they are, they are awesome.
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