An awesome storm building up over the Estancia Valley near sunset, reminded me of the Navajo legend of creation with Father Sky and Mother Earth.
This photo was made looking East from my backyard, using a polarizing filter. I debated about including the foreground but decided the house helped establish the scale.
Image levels adjusted, contrast and saturation adjusted, unsharp mask applied, cropped and resized.
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This is an amazing shot, and although other commentors said otherwise I think the foreground is well chosen. The rugged and unorganized aspect of the clouds is reflected with that of the buildings and powerlines, but the wide flat areas of cloud and sky are also heavily contrasted with their texture. GREAT SHOT!!
I would have liked this with no buildings below. Just crop and have only clouds. That's a "humdinger" of a cloud and you captured it very well. I like the depth of color and shadow.
Impressive sky, and unless you are incredibly good at photoshop, I actually believe that it truly DID look something close to that even before doctoring it.
Love the wicked clouds! Also like how the house is lit in the foreground. Would have been better if it was a larger white house to really shine! Nice capture
Goodness! They don't make skies like that where I live. The houses in the forground take away from the sky but I imagine you were where you were when you saw it and couldn't get to a place where the houses weren't there. And the sky alone would lose the sense of size without the buildings in the forground...
What a fabulous sky. I like the drama of the range of light. I wish the foreground were compelling enough to balance the sky or simple enough to not distract from it. Here the wires and scattered small buildings just draw the eye away and they are nothing to look at on their own. Perhaps finding one lone building and compose it to one side or the other would work?
I have never seen a cloud like that. It is truly magnificent. I like that you kept the emphasis of this photo on the cloud. You coul probably even have cropped out more of the grass for a more dramatic effect.
Blimey, that's mad. Good overall sense of tones, though the over-blown areas in the main cloud, although very small, are a shame in my eyes. There's a strangeness in the contrasting of the unusual sky and the so-very-humdrum world below: almost as though this is about aspiration and ambition.
Very dramatic cloud formation that is effectively presented. Wish you would have had a more interesting foreground for that sky. It still should be a top finisher and will make a perfect sky replacement for the right landscape image.
are you kidding me? that really is beautiful. wow. although i agree that you need the ground to provide context, i would have raced like crazy to look for a better setting for this photo. that's really neat, though!
It made me say "Wow! That's beautiful!" so it gets a strong score from me, even though the foreground is so ugly as to beggar comparison with the sky... Maybe that's what you WANTED, but I suspect you came across this on the fly and didn't have many options.
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