CLOUDBURST

Other people have mentioned how spectacular the clouds were across Great Britain last Friday, and this was also true of where we were, tucked away just off the north-west corner of Wales. As we strolled around on what was finally a spectacular summer’s day,  it was hard not to notice that the cloud sculptures that were forming and dancing around in the skies above our heads were beginning to resemble something from a renaissance painting.

They were so picturesque, in fact that it became necessary to start pointing the camera at the sky instead of at the scenery and blast off a burst of shots which couldn’t hope to do justice to this amazing natural wonder, but which do, hopefully, at least give a sense of the artistic genius that was being painted in the skies that day.

The first was taken in a car park in Beaumaris, the “car park” aspect of which doesn’t sound quite like the kind of scene that would have inspired any renaissance masterpieces, but then I don’t suppose that car parks were much of a feature of the landscape back in those days.

The other three were taken from another car park (such is their ubiquity now), at Penmon, pointing the lens north, south (towards the lighthouse) and west over the island.

A lovely day and some astonishing cloudscapes. I hope that, perhaps, you will get at least some small sense of how wonderful they were from these unworthy snapshots, which really cannot hope to give you more than just the merest notion of that spectacular show which was happening in the skies that day, but will, I hope, at least, show you some of it.

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