I had been considering this theme for a while and now is my chance.

Please submit your pictures of the sky. Pretty sunrise/sunset, rainbows, noctilucent clouds, starry nights, comets, spaceships being launched, birds in flight... whatever tickles your fancy, as long as the sky is involved in some way.

No sky but pictures of reaching or breaking a limit in some way may also be accepted in a stretch. Breaking the speed limit or similarly illegal activities do not count.

Rules:

• Photos must be taken during this month (July 2022) and posted before voting starts (photos must be taken between announcing the theme and starting the voting).
• Photos must be taken by the posting member.
• Photos must be taken with your phone's camera.
• Post processing is allowed but you have to say what you did.
• Users must name the phone and software they used.
• Users post only one photo per entry.
• Users can change the entry only once.
• 3 day voting period starts on July 28th at 22:00 UTC and ends at 22:00 UTC on June 31st.
• Winner of the vote will have the honor to choose the next month competition theme.
• You are allowed to continue off topic on this thread after competition.

This is not my entry (it does not qualify as there is no sky), but I am posting it here anyway as it is, albeit very marginally, related to the topic. Sunset, the sun is very low, most of the street already in the shade except one bush illuminated by the last rays of sunlight reflected from a window.



(Before you ask, yes, it is the shadow of my elbow )

Here are some pics for inspiration: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62068066

Ok, here is my entry:



Pro1, stock camera, cropped and perspective correction in darktable.

10 Plus

This looks like a good opportunity

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62010265

There was a really astonishing sky last week. I'm not sure if I should switch my entry:



Edit:
After two encouraging feedbacks, I switch my entry to this one.

Pro1, stock camera app, resized and denoised with darktable.

Damn, that is a good picture! I took something similar about 2 weeks ago and have been hesitating to submit it, in case I get anything better. All of that only to be upstaged by yours. I now feel embarrassed to even consider mine

That image has magic!

As mentioned before, I almost feel inadequate after seeing other people's photos. I though I had a few nice, dramatic snaps but they completely took the wind out of my sails. Oh well. With the lack of anything better, here is my submission.

Taken on 2022-07-06 with a Jolla 1.



What I particularly like about it and why I chose it as my submission is that it looks out of focus, but it is not. The clouds really looked like that. You can see it when you compare with the other clouds.