Clifford Beshers

  • Intermittent shadows on the Buttermilks are always fun.

    Alternating shadow and light bring out the structure of foothills.

  • Tungsten Hills, which slope to the east and are quite knobbly, always look good in late afternoon light.

    Low foothills stand out in a beam of slanting sunlight below dark clouds.

  • Wheeler Crest in summer.

    Partial clouds over a large granite escarpment.

  • A typical late summer afternoon in Round Valley.

    Green pasture, granite escarpment, and blue skies with puffy white clouds.

  • Cumulonimbus that hasn’t been torn, appearing so different than in my two previous posts. So friendly and fluffy.

    A bank of cottony clouds appears around the shoulder of a a mountain.

  • Here’s a closeup of the spikes. They definitely look wind-drawn to me. And there’s a surprise bit of rainbow.

    Low sunlight highlights bits of a bank of storm clouds.

  • We’ve had some interesting clouds, unusual in August. I’ve been seeing this spiking cumulonimbus recently, and I’m speculating that this is caused by rising winds tearing the normally smooth clouds. Something to follow up on, for me.

    A bank of clouds over a mountain is lit by low sunlight.

  • Firebird in the cirrus.

    Wispy, white cirrus clouds vaguely form the shape of a bird.

  • More clouds with character.

    Pink cumulonimbus clouds look vaguely animated.

  • The muted tones of a summer sunset.

    Clouds lit dimy by the fading sunset hover over mountain silhouettes.

  • I think a generation at Amazon must have retired, because they used to avoid aggravating features designed to get in your face, but the cracks have started to seep with annoyances: they advertise their own shows on Prime Video; they don’t let the credits run, you have to leap for the remote to prevent autoplay; and now my Kindle version of All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries 1) has changed the cover art from the original to Apple TV’s cover.

    I haven’t bought anything from Amazon for half a year, and I’m only watching videos until my Prime subscription runs out. Twenty five years of being a geek’s dream shopping, and the marketing shits have finally taken over.

  • Sometimes the clouds lose all color, but still have internal light, often emerging through some ill-defined swirl.

    Grey clouds of vary shades form a swirl between two trees.

  • Big puffball. Looks like an old sailing ship to me.

    A large, double-headed cumulonimbus cloud rises above dry mountains, lit pink by the setting sun.

  • When there are partially cloudy skies to the west in the afternoon, look east and see the land change.

    A high desert landscape, with mountains in the distance, is alternately in sun and shadow, making strong bands and wedges of land distinctly visible.

  • From spring, when the snow was fading, but storms were topping it up, on the Pine Creek mountains.

    A v-shaped valley between mountains shows snow-covered, jagged peaks in the distance.

  • More crepuscular light, a wider view of the previous shot.

    Light shines in beams through cloud and haze over a mountain range.

  • We’ve had some good storms this spring, resulting in some marvelous crepuscular light.

    A cone of light breaks through the clouds over a mountain valley.

  • Bands of force. So often, the weather and land appear in well-defined striations.

    Mountains, light clouds, and dark clouds form three distinct layers.

  • Clouds having a conversation.

    Two clouds that look like heads face each other.

  • The Tungsten Hills are formidably dry.

    Rocky foothills have no vegetation on them, with snow visible on the mountains behind.

  • Stack of pancakes for a Sunday.

    The sky is filled with a stall stack of thin, wide grey clouds.

  • Little straw-bale and lime house under the Sierra escarpment.

    A small house is lit by the setting sun, with mountains behind.

  • Tipping point.

    The rising full moon appears to be resting on the tip of a mountain.

  • Rain on the Coyote Hills.

  • Pine Creek Canyon always looks great when a big storm advances from the west.

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