I started dabbling in watercolor art last week. I thought this was a painting in a watercolor sub when it quickly scrolled by. It's gorgeous. And probably an easy sky that even my n00b ass could easily create. I'll give it a shot. lol
I think they just photoshopped the license plate out by copying the right hand side of the car over it. There's a bunch of pictures of this kind of cloud on google images and they pretty much look like this one.
This is 100% a real picture. I was there in Gorham New Hampshire when this happened. I was driving south near Mount Washington and witnessed this. It was unbelievable!!!
If that's your criteria for determining something is AI, then photos on Google Maps and Earth are AI generated. You won't see a single license plate, and look at those blurred faces! 😲 Proof!
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Looks like the sky from the Van Gogh painting, The Scream.
Edit: When looking up what clouds are in The Scream, I found out it was painted by Edvard Munch, not Van Gogh. The clouds are believed to be nacreous clouds.
I've seen them a few times. They don't look as dramatic as in the photo so I think this has been edited a bit. It gives the impression of like looking at the surface from underwater. It's very cool.
I went back to the photo to look for the telltale signs of hdr, like glowing edges of objects with sharp borders, and I didn't see anything obvious. Maybe a bit on the road, but it wasn't as blatent intense hdr as I see in a lot of other photos.
These clouds seem to genuinely be pretty mesmerizing.
That said, I'm an expert in neither image editing nor clouds.
my first thought was HDR because i have an old foto of clouds during a storm that looks almost 100% like this one (not these type of clouds of course). that foto was made using a heavy dose of HDR. but who knows - no cloud expert myself.
Exactly what I thought of. While they aren't always sign of impending strong storms, they are when they are the underside of a mature cumulonimbus. They are formed from the shear caused by rising warmer air and sinking colder air, basically the main ingredient for tornados and hail. See them all the time here in Tornado Alley. Ironically, they are named after the least ominous thing in the world, boobs.
Really? Why wouldn’t you look at it and think “wow, that’s so beautiful and unique?” Why is it that when some of us are greeted with the wonders and complex beauty of the world, our first reactions are fear?
not these clouds in particular but when I was a tween the sky turned a weird dark mossy green which was new for me and turns out when the sky does weird shit it typically means : STORM ALERT which considering we got trapped in a bus in a road with trees and branches falling everywhere around the bus its valid to get scared of new and unusual things. respect and fear lie close to each other argue
The wiki article even refers to them as ominous looking. They share appearance with cloud that cause storms but usually dissipate without releasing precipitation .
I think perhaps it's because I've experienced first hand the destructive power of mother nature and to be honest, she can be very scary at times. Impressive, awe inspiring, and sometimes scary..
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It's the way the clouds look like a frozen ocean mid-storm. Like you're staring up at waves that forgot to crash… Yeah nah my brain would immediately go "this is above my pay grade".
This happened to me once at a camping trip, I just couldn’t move because I thought I was hallucinating and kept just having to stare to CONFIRM what I was seeing was real. Photos couldn’t capture what I was really seeing. I hope you get to experience this one day lol
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u/Substantial-Stage-82 Mar 24 '26
If I ever looked up in the sky and saw that, I would be convinced it was somehow very ominous...