I enjoy seeing cloud/s photos :-

Can anyone explain why the low line of cloud just hangs so low above the horizon all the time, whilst the other 2 sets of clouds rise up.

Photo, panoramic, 3 shots, from the West Runway of Suvarnabhumi Airport looking Eastwards.

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In Sangkhla-buri (Vajiralongkron Res - Longest Wooden Bridge) in Kanachaburi

Chiang Mai area

Yours truly,

Kan Win

The one rising up on the right is a typical hammerhead, thunder cloud.

Perhaps some local heating on the ground is causing the up flow.

Common at this time of year when the land is very hot. These thunder clouds

build as the afternoon progresses.

Thank you "astral" for the info, do not know anything about clouds, but trying to learn a bit about them.

Kan Win

google 'cumulonimbus' that is what that cloud formation is, they develop the typical 'anvel' shape towrds the top of the cloud as a result of a difference in windspeeds etc, reach enormous heights and can make awesome sights when the electric starts to generate amongst it. Ice crystals also form in the top layers and then you get hail storms.

Thats from my limited knowledge anyway.

I have some nice cloud photos, but if I post them my secret will be out.

clouds ao nang.

Haven't been many posts here so thought I would add a couple I took today. Not really special though, just keeping the topic alive.

Thank you "longneck" and "Tywais" great photos.

Anyone else out there? or our we the only ones on cloud 9?

Kan Win

Anyone else out there? or our we the only ones on cloud 9?

There is a CM member who just posted one in the "Evaluate My Photo" forum. Coincidentally, he took the same red sunset and the same day I did. However, his timing and position was much better then mine and looks really good.

There is a CM member who just posted one in the "Evaluate My Photo" forum. Coincidentally, he took the same red sunset and the same day I did. However, his timing and position was much better then mine and looks really good.

I did have a look at that photo, but............your photo is in my view (and pun intended) much to my liking, however, it-was your first photo of "Clouds" that I did enjoy the most.

Kan Win

This is more of contrails than clouds, but it was all I could find......

Stockholm with Royal Castle in the Old Town to the right.

A few more to keep it going.

Nakon Nayok.

Pattaya about to get dumped on.

Phetchaburi.

This shot was taken right at sunset with the sun still hitting the tops of the thunderheads. It was a precursor to a very stormy night in Iowa.

Forgot to include this one even though I just took it in last month. It is a series of stacked lenticular clouds over the mountains in Idaho. Very unusual to see so many as there are usually just one or two. They stayed in place for several hours.

Hi All,

Thank you very much for your photos. Nice to see some interest on this subject

Stockholm with Royal Castle in the Old Town to the right.

Nice, looks like an old photo.

A few more to keep it going.

Very nice Pano photos BTW, thank you.

Forgot to include this one even though I just took it in last month. It is a series of stacked lenticular clouds over the mountains in Idaho. Very unusual to see so many as there are usually just one or two. They stayed in place for several hours.

Very good both two photos, thank you.

Kan Win

As Thai Visa has "Tag Cloud" now this is a low cloud photo, six photos in this shot Pano:-

Kan Win on Cloud 9

Stockholm with Royal Castle in the Old Town to the right.

Nice, looks like an old photo.

I took it 4 years ago with my Sony DSC-V1. You can choose "Sepia" and I found it made the clouds more interesting.

Got some more same style and also Stockholm here:

As Thai Visa has "Tag Cloud" now this is a low cloud photo, six photos in this shot Pano:-

Kan Win on Cloud 9

Hey, this is a great photo! Where was it taken and what time of year? Good work on the pano tie in.

More Pattaya follies.........

Afternoon clouds over Table mountain, Cape Town.

Known as the Table Cloth.

Here a a few I took on Saturday 1.pm at NaJomtien, the sun was most unusual with a continuous ring that lasted around two hours.. I only Have a Nikon coolpix 3200, but I do my best

As Thai Visa has "Tag Cloud" now this is a low cloud photo, six photos in this shot Pano:-

Kan Win on Cloud 9

Hey, this is a great photo! Where was it taken and what time of year? Good work on the pano tie in.

Hi "'T_Dog" taken just before Phuket on the road from Krabi, September 2006. The pano tie was just pure luck

Kan Win

I don't boast at all when it comes to my photography as I just take pics when something catches my eye. But the Colorado sunset always has a way with helping out even a novice photographer such as myself. This photo was taken just outside of Boulder Colorado about 5 years ago.

Boulder_sunset_11_2006.bmp

strange cloud formation finally identified.

It's a Lao crop duster !!

Nice cloud formation. Photo shot on Koh Siboya, Krabi

How aboooooooooooooooooout, this one?

Here are my two, both taken from the window of my condo here in Bangkok. The first one was taken in May of 2005. The panorama one was taken today.

I enjoy seeing cloud/s photos :-

Can anyone explain why the low line of cloud just hangs so low above the horizon all the time, whilst the other 2 sets of clouds rise up.

Kan,

The reason is that the line at the bottom of the clouds is called the condensation level. Temperature decreases with altitude - so at some height the humidity becomes 100%, above this is cooler so condensation forms clouds, below that humidity is less than 100% so clouds evaporate. Air moves up and down but the line stays fairly constant - in the short term. This is why clouds appear to 'hang so low'

If you look at your picture, the larger of the two thunderheads, as that thunderhead has risen, it has sucked the surrounding humid air down - so the clouds are thinner either side of that thunderhead. But the bottom of the cloud layer is much the same height all over.

Shame about the pollution. (the browny / grey under the clouds) But good for the economy! ;-(

Unusual shapes: Some people see shapes in clouds of different objects. My wife looked at this and spotted a dog in the lower left corner. I looked at the center column and saw something, let's just say, more Freudian. Yeah, I know - weird couple