17/05/11…Thame Skies ? Latest Exhibition at Thame Museum

THAME Skies, the latest exhibition at Thame Museum, from today, May 17, is a stunning collection of spectacular skyscapes taken by a Thame photographer.

The collection of more than twenty large format photographs includes dramatic clouds, rainbows and ice halos through to a lunar eclipse, comet Hale-Bopp, and the Aurora Borealis. Named ?Asperatus? after the latest new classification of cloud formation, nearly all the images were taken in the local countryside around Thame.

Nick White, the photographer and a Thame resident, has been fascinated with astronomy and meteorology from an early age and catches both day and night skies in breath-taking splendour, but doesn?t only have his head in the clouds. Nick pursued a full career in medical photography at the John Radcliffe Hospital before going freelance five years ago, has his own photography, design, and print business in Oxford, and has also worked for the National Trust Picture Library.

The Asperatus exhibition, recently shown to great acclaim at Art Jericho in Oxford, includes short explanations of the phenomena, giving an insight into the ever changing nature of the skies above Thame.

The exhibition opens at Thame Museum from 17 May and will run through to late June.

Entry to the Museum and the ?Thame Skies exhibition? is free. The Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday 10.00am ? 4pm, and Sunday 12-4pm
Contact Thame Museum at:publicity@thamemuseum.org

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PHOTO:
The Asperatus cloud formation was proposed in 2009 as a new classification. The name is derived from the Latin, meaning to roughen or alginate. It has been described as resembling a choppy sea from below. (photographed from Thame, Oxfordshire).