It was a hot day of storms that never happened, of rain that didn’t occur and of an overall greyness. At sunset time, I noticed the cloud cover was thinning, so I went out, curious as to whether there would be anything worth photographing.
Well! The clouds were stunning. So – Sunset brought to you by Clouds.
One of the delights about sunsetty photo taking is my neighbourhood has become so intrigued by my presence on those evenings I’m not working that they come out to 1. find out what I’m doing & 2. chat. One old Italian lady chats away and last night, as I took photos of her gorgeous roses (only this one turned out), gave me 2 beautiful ones which now sit on my desk.
a flight of sacred ibis I was luck to catch. (I missed the sparrowhawks – 3 of them – because I was too busy watching them!)
When sunsetty colour finally happened, it looked like brush strokes
Virga above my very oven street
And it was supposed to storm & rain over Perth last night & we hardly got any rain & there were no storms. We have the same forecast today, but the sky is clear.
Sigh. At least it hasn’t been as hot as over Christmas/New Year – in Perth, at least. In the centre & the east, from the tip of the Cape down to Tasmania, breaking temperature records & up in flames? Welcome to global warming!
Hope you enjoyed these clouds 
Gorgeous! Love no.8 in particular.
It was a stunning evening. That is one of my favourites too. For the last week we’ve had clear skies and I am so aching for clouds to return, parituclarly on a weekend – working nights really wipes out my sunsets.
amazing sky photographs, fascinated me. Thank you dear Keira, love, nia
thank you Nia. I’m glad you liked them
Amazing clouds and lovely light make for a beautiful series of shots.
thanks, Inga. The light that evening was astonishing. It’s still a pity about the rain though – in that it didn’t
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Those are some marvelous formations…
They were quite epic in parts
Not much rain though :-/
You hardly need sunset when you have cloudscapes like these
PS – Bless the old signora for giving you some roses!
Yeah – it was an amazing sky, & yes – she’s wonderful. Sadly, the roses have almost completely lost it in the heat of today. No aricon in my little domicile.
And the air so dry it almost crackles … I remember it!
no – no longer. Now Perth has humidity along with the heat – so 37 feels like 40.