Three Evening Clouds

Previously posted and one of my favorite photographs, but somehow it got deleted.  This is a re-post with no changes.

Being careful, the sky always surprises us. Very well composed, and great feeling of spaciousness, with the mountains nearly flattened by the clouds. Best regards, Antonio

Stephen, This image surprised me when i opened it up. From the thumb nail i thought the clouds were mountains, What an unusual cloud formation. I think you have complimented the clouds very well with the hill side. The streaking in the background clouds also compliments the lines in the hills. Well Seen and very well capyured and presented.

Cheers Richard

A minimalist beauty: contrasts of shapes, lines and textures are unique / very original and form an aesthetic cosmos (the special arrangement of triangles and ellipses is striking). Lights and shades are well-balanced and nicely combined to guide the viewer's eyes through the image, again and again.

Excellent illustration of the orographic clouds. WMO (World Meteorological Organization) have to pay for this photo. Best wishes.

What I like here is how peaceful,calm looks this landscape,is  so well balance between clouds and land,by the way this type of clouds look splendid as Evgeni say,is intersting the ''V'' makes from land and clouds.

If I didn't know your work, i'd think this was a trick or something.......it's so amazing.  The juxtaposition of the line of clouds with the opposing downward grade to the hill is just one of those one in a million opportunities.  I love this!  Is that a darker lenticular cloud in the upper right?  Or is is it just clear sky peeking through?  I can't tell from my small monitor.  

I guess there's a reason they call it Big Sky Country. The clouds are superb and are very well balanced against the table rock on the right. The sky has incredibly beautiful color variations as well.

My curiosity is aroused, though. What are the critters, cattle, sheep or...?

This is a photo that I didn't fully appreciate until I got home.  It is pretty amazing that those angles match so well.  So much of landscape photography involves being in the right place at the right time.  Christal, there are only clouds in the upper right corner.  There might be a sliver of blue sky to the left about mid-way down, but it's hard to tell for sure.  Joseph, I had to check on the original, and those are cattle (all black, so I'd guess Black Angus).

Stephen, I guess I had commented on the image before it got deleted. I do remember this interesting play of triangles, shapes of clouds echoed in the mountain. Even that darker cloud upper left seems to have its counterpart in the lower part of the mountain. I do not know how you could improve this image. The only thing that comes to my mind rather as an option not necessarily leading to a better image is cropping the thin darker area at the bottom. On the one hand, doing so lets me better concentrate on the shapes, on the other, one looses depth that the dark part (bushes ?) provides. Best regards. Peter

Peter, thanks for stopping by (again!).  I masked that area off with a couple of pieces of paper, and I don't think it's an improvement.  Right now, that thin, dark area is acting somewhat as a base and/or border, and the scene seems to just fade into the edge of the frame without it.  If I think it's an useful element, I'd prefer to keep it (which has me looking at the top and wondering if any of that could go -- I'm not sure).  But as with all cropping, it's pretty subjective.

Beautiful landscape. It must have been a privilege to witness this fantastic light on the triple clouds.

Shooting a scene like that is a challenge for any photographer.

One of the decisions to make is how to frame it: where does the in-the-frame stops and what can be left out-of-the frame. Your choice is in my eyes optimal. I believe in a base line that somehow constructs the scene. A "socle", so to say, like in sculptures: In this case, the dark line at the bottom. With that dark line it is somehow natural that the scene stops and that nothing more of interest can be expected further "down"/nearer to the photographer. The same goes for the somewhat emptiness of the upper clouds. Having made these decisions, the photographer can then present the main phenomena of interest: the evening light on the triple-clouds. 

In my eyes a school example of succeeded framing. Well done Stephen - as so often.

An original  " once in a lifetime shot ! " Excellent image ! Bill

Wonderful simplicity. alfredo

Great lenticular clouds, Stephen.  Occasionally we get them in the lee of the Appalachians, but seldom this dramatic.

That a nice butte/mesa on the right side as well.

--Lannie