SOMEWHAT OCCASIONAL CLOUD NEWSLETTER “It was April, quiet and brown in the fields, drowsy under a blanket of mist that cleared as the sun rose, leaving the hills corona’d in feathery wispings of clouds. They bring fine weather and they’re standing still.”From Cloud Howe (1933), book two of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair. Dear Alan Lodge, Welcome to our newsletter for April. Cloud of the Month The tablecloth cloud isn’t the only dramatic formation produced by the mountains around Cape Town in South Africa. We explain another in Cloud of the Month for April… Cloud Spotter Cards Learn the cloud classifications, from common formations to rare and fleeting ones, with our new handy Cloud Spotter Cards. They feature 30 different clouds types and optical effects, and they make a great gift for anyone with their head in the clouds. Each card has detailed information on one side written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney (Member 001) explaining the cloud’s distinguishing features. On the other is a beautiful illustration of the formation by London-based illustrator Marcel George. The Cloud Spotter Cards also include info about the cloud’s rarity, its likelihood of producing precipitation, what its Latin name means – even the sort of mood its likely to induce. This set of 30 cards, with an accompanying little fold-out poster, is a cloudspotter’s resource that is beautiful, tactile and tech-free. Each pack is signed (on the card retaining strip) by the author. Use Cloud Spotter Cards for inspiration to keep looking up and as a reminder to spend a few moments each day with your head in the clouds. |
With 30 different cloud cards and a mini fold-out poster. Cards describe the distinguishing features, rarity and other info. |
No WiFi, no charge points, no smartphone required. Order a pack of Cloud Spotter Cards Taking cloudspotting to the next level The aimless and relaxing pursuit of cloudspotting Joe Jennings of skydive.tv got in touch to show us how he and his friends spot clouds. This is something our members might like to consider. Do you know the Ten Main Clouds? Which cloud are you? As expressions on the face of the atmosphere, each of the main clouds has its own particular mood. Which one matches your feelings right now? Our 8-minute summary of the ten main clouds types is illustrated with clouds from the CAS photo gallery spotted by our members and app users. Decide which cloud you are right now. Cloudspotter Groups Down Under The CAS Community pages are really picking up momentum. The Cloudspotter Groups for different locations around the world are growing and any of them would love for you to join to say hello. They are for members and friends to discuss the skies of a region, but you don’t need to be based in the area to join one. Here’s what’s been happening in some of the groups Down Under… New Zealand Cloudspotter GroupRaymond Walsh (Member 33,198) is now managing the Cloudspotter Group for New Zealand, where he recently spotted a dragon cloud. This is the country whose Maori name, Aotearoa, means land of the ‘long white cloud’. Need we say more? Queensland, Australia GroupIn the Cloudspotter Group for Queensland, Australia, Andrew Petrie (Member 29,860) is stormchasing from his window in lockdown. New South Wales, Australia GroupIn the Cloudspotter Group for New South Wales, Australia, Catherine Evans (Member 5,781) is counting Cumulus congestus clouds at sunrise as they build on the eastern horizon. Join a Cloudspotter Group If there isn’t one for your area, why not apply to start one of your own? |
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I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe as ‘New Age Travellers’ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years, extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads: “Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
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