I imagine that if "the Rapture" (and its accompanying Armageddon) were ever to actually occur, then the fire would rage even through "a dark and stormy night...."
I was taking macros of raindrops on the car window, but decided I liked the rooflines better; I left some token drops (or are they tears?) in the upper-right corner as evidence of what I was doing originally.
As I often do when presented with a flat lighting situation, I played around with color Curves until I found this one, which in turn inspired the title. I see it as the equivalent of having shot with a deep-color filter. I wanted somethng which resembled a painting in feel, yet was clearly a photograph.
Title from the "standard" inkblot test used for psychological profiling, because of the suggestively-shaped clouds.
Bonus hint*: Tilt your head 45° to the left and check out the cloud pattern(s) along the left-hand edge ...
Note: this is as-is -- not retouched ... a version with a slight amount of dodge/burn in the clouds is here:
This version without obvious raindrops was my alternate choice, but I liked the roofline and the clouds of the entry better.
-Handheld, manual mode
-SuperMacro mode
-Fluorescent WB (no, not intentionally)
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 290KB
File: Rainy_IMG_9585yDPC.jpg
Resized original:
*Here's what I saw:
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It's probably the garish colour pumping, but this doesn't work at all for me, not as an abstraction, and certainly not as "fine art". If the colour choice was saner, I might have understood. Unfortunately, I don't get it.
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