Bending the clouds!

Amazing shot. Well done.

Regards.

Beautiful with the white church and the strange clouds. I like the composition.

Regards Eystein

Beautiful composition, Laurent ... regards 

Thank you for viewing and for the kind comment.I go by this church regularly and stop when it is under a different sky as here.

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Thank you kindly.The cloud formation was good and perfectly positioned in the steeples....and I just happened to have the camera in the car!!!!

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Thank you for viewing and taking time for this nice comment.

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Striking colours and miniature effect!

very nice image well composed with a fantastic sky, ciao Giangiorgio

Thank you kindly.Maybe the miniature effect is from the vacant parking area?

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Good to hear from you;thank you so much!

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Another excellent work.  Beautiful polarization of the sky and the church is not too blown out, despite how white it is.  An excellent job.

Thank you kindly.The sky with the well positioned cloud was ideal for polarization.I did massage that broad wall very slightly so it would not look too blown out.This is a problem with all of our wood clad churches here which are almost all dressed in white.

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It does indeed feel good when it all comes together.Thank you for looking in and for the kind observation.

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Fabulous church and clouds and well captured. (6).  Even though I love color I am thinking this is a very good candidate for B&W conversion.

B&W conversion. If I had time to work on it, I might give it more contrast except for the white of the church.

Thank you for the kind appreciation and the generous rating.I have many different shots of the churches in this area and most are motivated by the skies that crown them.I make extensive use of my WA lense with its affixed circular polarizer which in producing these spectacular skies does entrain an uneven coloration of the blue behind the clouds,an aspect that is clearly distracting to some,but not to me as you can surely deduct.Going B&W as your edit sort of calms this and does make for just as good an image and I sometimes go this route.In the end,a choice has to be made and more often than otherwise,I lean towards color;I am sure that with all the many and great images you upload,you,more than I, must be continuously torn in making this sort of selection.

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In my humble opinion, you should go for three shots (Ps I have looked at your church folder in a fair amount of detail recently). One with  a polarizer for two shots - one in color and one in BW. I would then go for one in color without the polarizer - auto-bracket 3 shots 1 stop apart. Since most of my work is in color, I seldom use the polarizer on the sigma 10-20. I have found a way in an old version of lightroom (V2) to give me the type of sky I want.

I just spent a little bit more time with the B&W conversion  and here is the result.  Maybe too dramatic?  If the clouds compliment the church then it is probably OK but if it starts to be the star attraction then you have competition. In this one I think it is a church and you have some heavenly skies. Good combo?

I thank you again for taking time on this one and for the look into my CHURCHES.I take a fairly large number of photos but I do not spend a lot of(enough ?) time at it;most are taken on the go with out and back in the car type of stops while some like this church might be on a cloud chase as not far from the house.As a rule,I rarely take more than one shot per POV but will move around to take a few from different vantage points,but time allowing,I will surely follow your advise on the multi-shot scenario,at least from the best POV.

I am not that articulate with PP and I spend minimal time running my images through the basic Microsoft program that came with my Windows 7 version.Your latest manipulation on this shot came out good.

Merci et meilleures salutations-Laurent