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The Skylight Project: 24/01/2012

January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

No incentive at all to open the window and look out today…

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The Skylight Project: 23/01/2012

January 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Clouds blowing across the sky in the course of one sunset.

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The Skylight Project: 22/01/2012

January 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

A few minutes later and the sky had become quite different.

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The Skylight Project: 21/01/2011

January 21st, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

The moment when low rain clouds started to disperse, revealing a clear sky.

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The Skylight Project: 20/01/2012

January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Not a day when looking out of the window offers a very attractive prospect…

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The Skylight Project: 19/01/2012

January 19th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Many different types of cloud visible during the afternoon today – low-lying cumulus, contrasting with the high, wispy stratus. And even a contrail or two.

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The Skylight Project: 18/01/2012

January 18th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

This is a 15-second exposure of what looked, to me, like an almost pitch-dark street.

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The Skylight Project: 17/01/2012

January 17th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Spoiled for choice today with three lovely images all captured during the late afternoon.

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The Skylight Project: 16/01/2012

January 16th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

I looked out of the window today and saw this amazing contrail pattern.

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The Skylight Project: 15/01/2012

January 15th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Another hard frost this morning – and ice crystals all over the skylight window.

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The Skylight Project: 14/01/2012

January 14th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

A hard frost the last couple of days – and misty mornings as the sun comes up and moisture rises off the warming ground.

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The Skylight Project: 13/01/2012

January 13th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Sunrise, shot slightly earlier than in previous pictures, and with the sky still quite a deep shade of blue.

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The Skylight Project: 12/01/2012

January 12th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Our first true night shot of the year. Street lamps in the foreground echo those mapping out the town in the distance.

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The Skylight Project: 11/01/2012

January 11th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Another sunrise photo – pink, orange and midnight blue clouds on the horizon below a clear sky.

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The Skylight Project: 10/01/2012

January 10th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Tonight the clouds departed as sunset approached – so here’s a striking image of a winter sunset in a clear sky.

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The Skylight Project: 9/01/2012

January 9th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

It’s common to see birds gathering on TV aerials as the afternoon draws to a close. Sometimes we even get a flock of starlings swooping about as dusk falls. Not quite a full-scale murmuration – but, who knows, we might get one of those some day.

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The Skylight Project: 8/01/2012

January 8th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

These windblown sunset clouds reminded me of nothing so much as the turbulent bands that make up the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter.

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The Skylight Project: 7/01/2012

January 7th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

Sunny for most of the day – almost springlike – but a few clouds rolled up to give us an impressive sunset. Later these gold-bronze and grey tints turned to deep pink and inky blue.

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The Skylight Project: 6/01/2012

January 6th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

High cirrus cloud against blue sky.

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The Skylight Project: 5/01/2012

January 5th, 2012 · Comments Off · Skylight Project 2012

This captures the moment this morning when the cloud started to lift after a spell of rain. A few minutes later the sky was blue and full of little fluffy, innocuous clouds.

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