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In this report for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos we can see photographs of clouds that I have been taking with my mobile phone this last week between Sant Celoni and Santa Maria de Palautordera, in the Vallès Oriental.
As a great fan of meteorology and photography, during this last year I have been able to discover and, above all, document, that no cloud is the same as another.
At sunsets or sunrises, there are different shades of red, orange when the light hits, which is not every day.
The candilazos, with those reddish tones, are those endings or beginnings of the day that give you a high and well-being to move forward. However, not all we can observe are floodlights or simple sad gray clouds that leave water in their wake. I have also been able to photograph, for example, the so-called “twilight rays”.
These are characterized by the fact that the sun’s rays cannot pass because there is a peak of a mountain or cloud and where they find a space, the light passes through and creates this beautiful effect.
The truth is that, regarding storm clouds, also called cumulonimbus, it is impressive how they can grow and their rapid transformation. Seeing these creatures up to 12 km high produces a feeling of immensity but also of softness when seeing them in the photos.
One of the things I like to do with these clouds is to make a time lapse to capture how they develop or how they dissipate.
But not everything has to be extreme weather or great visibility to enjoy the sky. There are also those popularly known as decorative clouds. They do not leave the sky completely covered, nor do they leave rain or anything similar.
These very “simple” little clouds can make you achieve a wonderful photograph, for example, if you photograph a mountain from afar.
The wind clouds, the first time I had the opportunity to photograph them, was in Aragon. These clouds also give a sensation of fluffiness such as cumulonimbus, but in a somewhat different sense. Perhaps the best way to describe them would be to say that these have a cottony feel and are very moldable.
And not all clouds leave rain, hail, or completely covered skies. We must remember that there are also those few morning lights that give us a boost of energy, wind clouds that leave us perplexed or a storm cloud that, while giving us respect, we admire for its grandeur and its apparent similarity to a cotton
