Cloud World Archive

Gallery

Selected frames from the archive, grouped by the kind of sky.

Sunset · Stratocumulus

Evening over the Gulf

Low clouds catching the last light before the sun touches the sea.

Cumulus

Fair-weather towers

Midday convection over open country.

Nimbostratus

Before the rain

A slow front rolling in from the mountains.

Cirrus

Mares' tails at dawn

High ice clouds brushed across a pale sky.

Altostratus

Moonlit layer

A thin veil drifting under the stars.

Atlas

The archive so far, by region.

Arabian GulfCoastal skies, haze, desert sunsets

AlpsLenticular and mountain wave clouds

North AtlanticFronts, squalls, long grey days

MediterraneanSummer cumulus over islands

About

Cloud World Archive began as a habit of looking up: a few frames of the sky from every trip, kept together with short notes on the weather and the place.

It is a slow, non-commercial project. New skies are added whenever there is time to sort and write, and the archive is being reorganised at the moment.

The sky, collected one cloud at a time.