On my bike ride from Copenhagen to Dragor I decided to pull over and take this photo of the clouds, as it isn’t often that we get clouds like this back home.

Posted on October 14th, 2012 under Denmark. Tags: clouds, Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000. Comments: None

One night, while we lived in Tokyo, a typhoon ripped through. By morning the rain had stopped, but it was still windy and the clouds were racing by at an unbelievable clip. We decided to go someplace high for lunch to survey the scene. Today’s photo is of our view from near the top of the Sumitomo Building in Shinjuku. Click here to see what I had for my meal.

Although these clouds appear to be stationary, had I taken another photo five seconds later the clouds would have been a totally different batch.

Posted on September 30th, 2012 under Japan. Tags: aerial photography, clouds, shinjuku, Tokyo. Comments: None

On the north side of the Columbia University campus there is a nice view of W 120th Street from this perch. I photomerged a half dozen photos, taken just before a summer lightning storm, to come up with the above image.

On the far left is The Riverside Church. Moving right from there is Union Theological Seminary, then Teacher’s College directly across the street, and to the right is Whittier Hall.

Posted on July 14th, 2012 under Other. Tags: clouds, columbia university, new york, nikon d7000, panorama, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments: None

The first leg of our journey to New York a couple weeks ago included an evening flight to Portland, Oregon (before changing planes to a red eye flight to the Big Apple). Most of the time the sun was so bright (setting in the west and I was on the left side of the plane heading north) that I couldn’t see much. But for the moment when I took today’s pic, the plane’s wing/engine got in the way of my vision and the sun and (ignoring the dirty window) afforded a nice, heavenly view.

Posted on June 30th, 2012 under Oregon. Tags: aerial photography, clouds, nikon d7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments: None

Beautiful sky over the Asano River in Kanazawa, Japan

I took this photo in Kanazawa last summer because the sky was so interesting. I didn’t realize until much later that this is a rather famous bridge (Asanogawa Ohashi). Originally built in 1594, the current structure is from 1922. In 2000 this bridge was classified as a tangible cultural property (登録有形文化財) which I’m guessing is something similar to the USA’s National Registry of Historical Places.

On the left side of the bridge is Kanazawa’s famous Geisha Tea House District (東茶屋街).

Posted on August 23rd, 2011 under Japan. Tags: clouds, kanazawa, skywatch. Comments: None