Lightning Clouds IV
Today we had more lightning and the dark clouds to go with it. I was busy and could not get out with the camera.
But, I have an image or two left from the last thunder storm 3 weeks ago.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm f2.8 lens. ISO100, 1/40th, aperture not recorded.
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burnt embers 
Very well processed. Although if asked I would have thought a B&W conversion would be the best option in a situation like this, somehow that colour version seems to convey more about an impending storm.
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Thank you Andy. I think the colour version feels darker, as if the clouds have cut out the light just recently, and quickly. And that is probably partly the quality of light (it was around sunset).
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Wow very powerful images…both in color and B&W. Well done !!!
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Hi David, I am back from a few days on Haida Gwaii. Thanks for you terrific comment 🙂
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Looks like our skies…oh wait…they are pretty much the same eh! 😉 While the browns in the colour version appeal to me, the B&W just really makes it all come together. 😀
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Thanks David – they are shared skies. I can see the sky over you guys, from higher ground anyway, and only as a faint strip of light. But, it’s there. A few days a year we can see right past you all the way to Mt. Rainier. I like the black and white best too, and the browns. I need to work on combining the two somehow to get the best of both.
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Ohhh, a muted colour version (you know how I love the muted colour look)! 🙂
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I do, and I know a bit about how you layer a monotone over a colour version, but don’t have the software. I was thinking I should be finding a way to do something in camera that gets me closer. I have been taking some shots of these rocks with grasses a sunset that are all brown and yellow and they work a bit better. But, it might be in post that I will get the job done.
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My daughter was saying how there was lightening and thunder in Vancouver last night. We’re thinking of chartering a sailboat out your way next summer…hoping we don’t experience any of that weather on board!
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Hi Paula – to have lightning down near the water’s edge is pretty unusual – the storm of a few weeks ago was so rare that I don’t recall another one. But, you do hear it off in the mountains quite a lot – the Olympics near Victoria, and the Coastal Ranges near Vancouver. Usually it is of no concern at all for boaters.
Chartering a sailboat in the Gulf of Georgia (or Salish Sea as many are now calling it) is a terrific experience. I have not sailed for many years, but used to do a lot of it and it is terrific thing to do, even if the weather is not great.
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