Storm's a commin'

Nice one... Sure hope that comes our way...We need the rain!

Awesome cloud formations, & you put them in the frame perfectly with the trees & the side of the hill. Very Nice Bill

Very well done Bill. Unfortunately, I can pick up the noise from the scan in the lighter area above the ground. Well composed!

Dave

Thanks to all. Dave, I only have a cheap old flatbed scanner (Quite old) and was scanning an image just under 8X10 inches. I see what you are talking about in the rainfall of the advancing storm. This was th most turbulent cloud formation I've ever encountered in my experiences with working with clouds.

thanks for sending this rain our way... Really got a gully washer!

Love the BW. The clarity and perspective is great. Love the clouds.

 

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...photography...

There are not too many things better than capturing a beautifully dramatic sky!Congrats, Charlie

It is photos like this that make me want to learn how to shoot B&W film. Please, no debates on digital versus film, but the amateur I am, I have never come close to capturing the feeling, depth and dynamic range shown here, with my digital canon. Well, we are talking 6 by 4.5 here compared to my 1.6 crop digital. :-) But, as incredibly cheap as used 35mm film cameras are, why shouldn't I go get one of those? Heck maybe even a 4x6, 5x7 if development is inexpensive (scans).

 

Side Note:

 

Bill, I read that you are into weather, me too. I am just learning all about adiabatic lapse rates, cloud names, fronts, etc. Very very interesting stuff. The problem is, I find it so hard to photograph the great weather I see in the sky. For me, living in Seattle, it is often subtle formations embedded in a uniform grey sky.

 

Keep up the great work.

Greg, thanks for your comments. Sharp, clearly defined clouds may be difficult to get the nearer you are to sea level. Mostly then you have a difused fog-like cloud bases, and not these much higher ones we get in the midwest and southwest part of the country. Good luck on the meterology study. I looked for some of your pictures in your gallery and found none. I'll check back later on and see if you publish some. I'd like to see them, especially weather related ones.