Clouds: Both Sides

Ice cream castles in the air? Or are they just blocking the sun?

I don’t often photograph clouds, because who could improve on what Ansel Adams accomplished in the 1930s?

Ansel Adams, Clouds, Sierra Nevada, California (1936)

But some days, you just got to. The cloud formations over Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, on the afternoon of July 8, 2025, demanded they be captured.

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Photo (EXIF) Deets

Photograph #1 (black and white), Northport, Alabama:

• Camera Model - OM Systems OM-3

• ExposureTime - 1/125 seconds

• FNumber - 22.00

• ISOSpeedRatings - 200

• DateTimeOriginal - 2025:07:08 14:36:45

• FocalLength - 25 mm

• CustomRendered - Custom process

• FocalLengthIn35mmFilm - 50 mm

• Lens Model - LUMIX G 25/F1.7

• GPSLatitudeRef - N

• GPSLatitude - 33 12.954983 0 (33.215916)

• GPSLongitudeRef - W

• GPSLongitude - 87 34.546902 0 (87.575782)

Photograph #2 (color), Tuscaloosa, Alabama:

• Camera Model - OM Systems OM-3

• ExposureTime - 1/125 seconds

• FNumber - 22

• ISOSpeedRatings - 200

• DateTimeOriginal - 2025:07:08 14:04:14

• FocalLength - 25 mm

• FocalLengthIn35mmFilm - 50 mm

• Lens Model - LUMIX G 25/F1.7

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