Ian Loxley Lodge Lane Upton - Fanatical amateur photographer, subjects, in the main, Family, landscape and weather related.

I am the Photo Gallery Editor for The Cloud Appreciation Society, www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/which was founded in 2004 in Cornwall, at a literary festival, by writer and TV and Radio broadcaster Gavin Pretor- Pinney.

What started as a fun item has really taken off and Gavin has travelled the globe, in request for interviews, regarding the society, the most recent being in America on media mogul Martha Stewart’s popular lifestyle TV show.

We now have an incredible 11,560 members, this number increases at a daily rate……….members are from all walks of life and over 40 country’s worldwide, we have approaching 3,500 fantastic photo’s on the website gallery, which I add too on a daily basis.

Images are from a worldwide source, that is my role for the society, people send them in, direct to me at ian@cloudappreciationsociety.org

Or via the site, from the submissions page www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/photo-submissions/

And I post them on to the gallery…… www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery

Have a look, and feel free to send photo’s in to me, I am sure we have some talented snappers in the village, I would love to display some more from our local area on the web site.

The Society has two books published The Cloudspotters Guide www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloudspotters-guide

and A pig With Six Legs http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-lookalikes-book/

Which is a collection of cloud look alike photo’s, the cover image being a photo of mine captured in the plumes from West Burton Power Station, which some of you may have seen in the local and national press.

I also had a photo of a lightning flash I captured, printed in the new book called Storm Force, from Ian MacCaskill, Michael ‘what Hurricane’ Fish and Paul Hudson TV weathermen,

I am also involved with TORRO The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation, as a gallery archivist, http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/index.php

As the name implies, all manner of severe weather is researched by the organisation, with a view to greater understanding of such phenomena, which then assists in better forecasting and warning of severe weather events.

Please feel free to send to me at ian.loxley@torro.org.uk any details of local severe weather events, ( which in truth we hope never occur) be it Hail, Thunder, Flood, Tornadoes, Funnel clouds and the like that you may experience, or have experienced, but please I cannot stress highly enough, please keep safe when trying to capture such events on camera.

I will accept a varied type of photo for TORRO as you will see I maintain a number of subjects on the gallery ……….Tornadoes, Hail, Severe Weather, Research, General Weather and Lightning....

And finally - The Gainsborough Snappers camera club which I am involved with, has just started its own website here http://www.gainsboroughsnappers.co.uk/

Still in the development process, should in time build to quite and interesting display of local photography….

Look forward to hearing from fellow Upton residents

Best wishes

Ian Loxley