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‘We take most of our photos at an oblique angle,’ observes Steve Drew (Cloud Appreciation Society Member 66,523). ‘We rarely just look up vertically.’When he did just that, over Tunbridge Wells, England, Steve was greeted with this display of Altocumulus perlucidus unobstructed by the clutter of a horizon. Without any terrestrial backdrop, the sky becomes abstract. Its orientation becomes ambiguous. Are we looking up? Or are we looking down at cloudlets floating over a deep blue ocean below?