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WHAT'S NEW: 2012-2013 Updates and Additions


Both newly created photo/story pages and updates will appear here as I post them, and for the past 1-2 years. New means newly added imagery, never before seen--no matter when the photo was taken. Updated means either a re-scanned and improved older image, a major revision to a narrative story, or a different/replacement photo that better illustrates an existing story.

            Mesocyclonically yours,
            ===== Roger =====

2013
Loyal Storm (new)
Storm Light at Hettinger Equity (new)
Northwestern Orb (new)
No Funnel (new)
Double Rainbow, North Dakota (new)
Over the Minnesota Line (new)
Gustnado near Mesocyclone (new)
Hettinger Hailer (new)
Nocturnal Hail Drift (new)
Lone Little Pine (new)
Night Storm Coming (new)
Western Oklahoma in Springtime (new)
Elevated Turbulence (new)
Red Dirt Stormscape (new)
Peculiar Front Light (new)
Beyond 190 Miles (new)
Elm Springs Blast 1 (new)
Elm Springs Blast 2 (new)
Severe Storm beyond Oklahoma Wheat (new)
Window to Color (new)
Storm on the Range (new)
Annular Eclipse (new)
Blown Discharge (new)
Spider Lightning (new)
Baily's Beads (new)
Young Duke Wall Cloud (new)
Old Duke Wall Cloud (new)
Downside Up (new)
Windmill with Wet Storm (new)
Downward-Directed Crepuscular Rays (new)
Lake McConaughy Sunset (new)
Abstractly Eroded (new)
Skeleton Forest (new)
Lake McConaughy Dam Release (new)
Sunset Lit Base (new)
Season's End (new)
Sunlit and Striated in South Dakota (new)
Rotation in Sunshine (new)
Sunset-Splashed Protrusions (new)
No Volcanoes in Oklahoma (new)
Prescribed Burn Area (new)
Plume Preceding Squall Line (new)
113 Degree Day (new)
Convective Tower Shadowing Smoke (new)
Cactus Carcass (new)
Hennessey Inferno (new)
Hot Plume Backsheared (new)
Pyroconvective Plume (new)
Snow Divots (new)
US-12 Supercell (new)
Beyond the Abandoned (new)
Aberdeen Wall Cloud (new)
Wavy Clay Slopes (new)
Altostratus Undulatus Asperatus (new)
Spreading Anvil Cloud (new)
Sunflower from Flood Wash (new)
Cloud-Streaked Sunset (new)
Mirroring the Foggy Sun (new)
Supercell Sparks Aloft (new)
Layered Bell Supercell (new)
Towering Cumulus and High Country Foliage (new)
Lightning on Cheyenne Ridge (new)
Badlands Clay Pan (new)
Zap to the Air at Sunset (new)
Shark's Fin Sunset (new)
Tall CG from Elevated Left Mover (new)
Geometrically Cracked (new)
Arcus over Turtle Mountains (new)
Northern Borderland Squall Line (new)
North Dakota Density Current (new)
Almost Time to Go (new)
Inundation Conquest (new)
Mammatus over Cheyenne Ridge (new)

2012
Reflections: Fall Foliage and Sky (new)
Path of Least Resistance (new)
Penetrated Stick (new)
Flags in Fog (new)
Mature Stromsburg Brute (new)
Stromsburg Vortex Narrowing (new)
Stromsburg Rope-out (new)
Wall Cloud and Red Dirt Road (new)
Dusty Pastel Storm (new)
Sheridan Lake Non-Tornado (new)
Rotating Storm (new)
Washington Seashore in the Drizzle (new)
Lenticular Depositing Rime--Mount Rainier (new)
Wild Horse Storm (new)
Lightning at Moonrise (new)
Foggy Mountain Sunset (new)
Rain Forest Creek (new)
EF5 Wedge with Satellite Tornado (new)
Violent El Reno/Piedmont Wedge (new)
Tilted Current (new)
Ruby Beach Reflective (new)
Altostratus in the High Sierra (updated)
Down and Out (new)
Altocumulus with an Edge (updated)
Extended Spark (new)
Lake Superior Moonrise (updated)
Stratocumulus from Above (updated)
Bountifully Branching Blast (new)
Interstate in Danger (new)
Hampton Tornado after I-80 (new)
Ohanapecosh, My Gosh (new)
Channing Enchantment (new)
Inflow Notch (new)
Tilted Tower (new)
Serrated Arcus (new)
Ibis Bath (new)
Whale's Mouth (new)
Sticking to the Stick (new)
More Bands of Light (new)
Croc Swim (new)
Last Cut (new)
True Pilei and String Lenticulars (new)
Earth Mover (new)
Tornadic Marionette (new)
Fluid Fractal (new)
Virga Blow (new)
Final Spin Cycle (new)
Miami Twilight Reflections (new)
Sweeping Tail Above (new)
That Wintertime Sun (new)
Multivortex in the Bear's Cage (new)
Through the Back Side (new)
Cache Cascade (new)
Yuma Hues (new)
Bayside Repose (new)
Tail Lightning (new)
Dinosaur Foot Storm (new)
Blue Patches Reflected (new)
Over an Overhang (new)
Lunar Crepusculars (new)
Horseshoe Vortex Splitting Away (new)
Liquid Abstraction (new)
Ada Structure (new)
Overhang Cave (new)
Stratocumulus Congestus (new)
Aerial Twilight (new)
Colder Coronal Reflection (new)
Winter Sunrise (new)
Bradshaw: Cone and Sheath (new)
Bradshaw: Big Picture (new)
Windmill under Stormy Sky (new)
Stubble Trouble (new)
Optical Glory (new)
Brushed with Color (new)
Fractocumulus with Funnel Cloud (new)
Wall or Shelf Cloud? (new)
Nahunta Falls (new)
Last Gasp in Twilight (new)
Big Dome (new)
Fuzzy Cone (new)
Off 19 (new)
Storm Ready (new)
Out of Dodge (new)
Skid Wreck (new)
Scottsbluff Bow: North Side (new)
Scottsbluff Bow: Middle Apex (new)
Scottsbluff Bow: South Side (new)
Retreating Mammatus over the National Weather Center (new)
Tidal Current Channels (new)
Butt Cloud (new)

SKYPIX NEWS:

Jan. 2013: Announcing the 17th SkyPix gallery room: Burnscapes--an assortment of wildfire and fire-weather photos, both from existing SkyPix galleries and newly offered from the 2009-2012 time frame. While I haven't actively sought fire situations to shoot, just enough of them have "come to me" to sort into their own dedicated area. Future wildfire-related shots will go here also--whether related to active fires or their aftermath.

Feb. 2011: Debut of the newest and 16th SkyPix gallery room: All Hail, which is (you guessed it!): all hail, all the time. Hail-related shots that had been scattered elsewhere in SkyPix (and not fitting too well in their categories) now appear here, while I begin adding a few pages devoted to hail photos taken in 2010.

Aug. 2010: After a busy summer with other projects, 2010 storm images finally are flowing in, intermingled here and there with a few stragglers from last winter and 2009. Also re-scanned damage slides from Hurricane Andrew in advance of its 18th anniversary. Shooting with a new 21 MP DSLR began this May.

Mar. 2010: Adding many images from the past winter's multiple ice and snow events to the Okie Winters gallery, along with a few late arrivals from the 2009 supercell season, in advance of the late-arriving 2010 storm intercept runs.

Feb. 2009: Uploading imagery from late 2008 into early this year in advance of the 2009 storm observing season.

June 2008: Back from storm intercept vacation, I've begun to process the best and/or most interesting of this year's imagery, in loose chronological order. Old slides from the 1993 Missouri floods have been rescanned and are online now, and soon, I'll further enrich Floods with some shots taken the morning the water rose 3 feet/hour in Story City IA earlier this month.

January 2008: Combined flood imagery from Water Works into Floods (formerly Missouri Floods '93), and added newer flood photos. This is to variegate the flood gallery, which was the smallest and least visited SkyPix set. I also hope to redo the many years-old scans of the slides from the '93 Missouri floods soon to improve their online image quality.

November 2006: A growing collection of such imagery compelled a new and 15th gallery room: Fog & Mist.

April 2006: Made the "big switch" from 35 mm slide equipment to shooting with a high resolution, pro-grade, digital SLR. All new images dated from that month on will originate digitally, though I will continue to rescan film slides from March 2006 and before (and add a few that never before have been displayed) as time permits.

2004: NEW SIMPLE ADDRESS!                       skypix.ws [Don't change your bookmarks. Using this address will just reroute you to the existing SkyPix home page. I did this so that you and I can give folks an easy address to remember.]

January 2004: Began adding "GPS" links to many SkyPix image pages, beneath the location text. Each "GPS" link will show you a public-domain, USGS satellite image (courtesy MS TerraServer) at 2 meter resolution, covering the spot where I shot the photo, giving its specific GPS coordinates and showing the direction of view. I plan to do this for every image, both recent and in the more distant past, where I can accurately and precisely reconstruct my position. Unlike most outdoor photographers, I see no compelling reason to "keep secret" my shooting places -- just the opposite, in fact; I want to share the information! As of this writing I am the only nature photographer freely publishing exact GPS points for most of my images. If one isn't linked, either

  1. I haven't been able to retrace the location precisely enough yet,
  2. The location wasn't available in the Terra set (anything outside the 48 conterminous states), or
  3. I simply haven't gotten around to producing the location image yet (but will).

    SkyPix Gallery Rooms:

    Night Lightning

    Daytime Lightning

    Mini Cloud-Atlas

    Visual Effects

    Sunrise, Sunset

    Okie Winters

    The Majestic Supercell

    Gallery of Outflow

    Wall Cloud Wall

    Tornadoes

    Hurricane Andrew

    Floods

    Unusual Weather Damage

    Fog & Mist

    Water Works

    All Hail

    Burnscapes

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