MAGICAL ART OF CLOUDS & FOG NOW

Lots of us take photos of clouds, but some, like the two photographers featured here below, manage to capture their magic, as well as their diverse qualities, in the most beautiful powerful ways. 

CLOUDS 365

Texan photographer, Kelly DeLay, has a serious passion for beautiful weather. His recent work, the Clouds 365 Project, is a collection of cloud photos taken every day of the year.

DeLay has spent 2 - 3 hours each day, for the past 5 years (1,825 days), researching weather and photographing clouds. 

People love DeLay’s images and that is not surprising, given their drama and artistic brilliance. One of DeLay’s most popular photos, depicting a supercell thunderstorm in Graham, Texas, reached over 35 million views online. 

This summer marked the end of the Clouds 365 Project. DeLay now plans to sell his prints and publish a book. He also hopes to turn his magnificent photographs into a cloud classification tool. 

To stay up-to-date with DeLay’ s gorgeous weather photography, check out his site here and visit the Clouds 365 Project.

RICKETT & SONES

These mystical photographs, from the series entitled Dume Gloom, by Rickett and Sones, prove that beautiful beach weather doesn’t have to be sunny.

This hauntingly gorgeous photo series features Little Dume, a beach in Malibu, California, which the Ricketts used to frequent. A heavy fog, known by locals as June Gloom, frequently shrouds the landscape.

Peeking beautifully out of the mist are craggy, delicately stepped rocks, coated in seagrass and overgrown with moss.

Rickett & Sones used long-exposures of 2 to 20 minutes to highlight the slow-moving ethereal qualities of the fog as it merges with the crashing waves.

These ephemeral photos make us stop to wonder what exactly lies beneath those mystical layers.

Ryan and Sonia Rickett are a husband-wife duo based in Los Angeles.They met while photographing the same client at a fashion shoot, and have been working together ever since.

The duo says, “We believe that life on the planet Earth should be a constant adventure — why else would we have incarnated here in the first place? — and it is our goal to inspire that sense of adventure in everything we do.”

To see more photography by Rickett & Sones, see their site here.

Read more about Beautiful Weather, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including  10 Award-Winning Weather Photos Now, The Art & Science of Beautiful Weather Now and 10 Beautiful Weather Desserts Now.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.
2. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.
3. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.
4. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.
5. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.
6. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.
7. Photo: by Rickett & Sones. From Dume Gloom Series.
8. Photo: by Rickett & Sones. From Dume Gloom Series.
9. Photo: by Rickett & Sones. From Dume Gloom Series.
10. Photo: by Rickett & Sones. From Dume Gloom Series.
11. Photo: by Rickett & Sones. From Dume Gloom Series.
12. Photo: by Rickett & Sones. From Dume Gloom Series.
13. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. Double Rainbow and Tornado.
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15. Photo: by Kelly DeLay. From Cloud 365 Series.