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Posts Tagged → Promenade des Anglais

Mammatus Clouds, in Nice

posted in Pic du Jour on August 10, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 4 Comments

These are Mammatus clouds hovering over the Promenade des Anglais, drooping like mysterious celestial bubbles ready to burst. I don’t recall ever seeing them before, and hoped that my Sunday evening spotting turned out to be a rare sighting of a rare formation. Mammatus clouds are sometimes described as rare, but that’s a perception based… Continue reading →

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I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant ones are the global response to the climate crisis and a renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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