This year the afternoon showers seemed to have returned on a regular basis, greening things up, but more importantly a sense of rhythm to the day that was absent over the last few years when the showers were infrequent. Weather adding a beat to the rhythm of life. Photographed while driving a quiet road near Walden, CO.
nature has no boss 
Swap the open road for fields and this is what we were looking at yesterday afternoon! B&W is so much more expressive for this kind of weather.
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I agree BW expresses the nature of these isolated showers on the open landscape very well and when I am out in this stuff even tend to see it in BW. I really enjoy being in a place where you can see the distant storms rolling along and if you can see several at once that is icing on the cake. Hope you enjoyed your storms and they caused no harm.
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Beautiful in black and white!
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Thanks, just felt like a BW photo to me. Hope you are having a good week.
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I can see a story unfolding in the frame. It’s beautiful!
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Thanks Sandra, it was a nice story as well.
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Do you use a colored filter on these black and white big sky shots? I am just learning about those, and I love your black and whites, so curious what you do. Beautiful!
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Laurel, this was sot in color and converted in photoshop with Nik silver-FX plug-in. If I were shooting film I would go for my red filter for sure.
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I just love the mood of this shot, fantastic.
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Thanks, I love being able to get out of the urban areas and actually see the wether coming at me. It is soothing in a very primal way. Hope your day is going well.
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What an awesome, wild landscape. Amazing to my Eastern eyes!
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Hi Eliza, yes the wide open landscape is a wonder to behold and makes me happy. Hope you are having a good day.
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I confess to being a color addict. Most B&W photos leave me cold. But then again, so does Picasso. So go ahead, call me a heretic… But this B&W photo is very appealing to me. I like it a lot. It has a nice, dramatic feel to it. Just this weekend I was playing around with NIK Silver Efex on some of my images, and discovered that a few of them took on a totally different life without the color, became almost a completely different image. So with a better understanding of what appeals to me in B&W, this was perfect timing: love this image, Mike! 🙂
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Katrina, thanks for the kind compliment. I am happy with both BW and color and just let the photo tell me what to do, at least with digital. It is fun to experiment with both color and bw and see what you like and if I dare say find a BW style that suits your images. Have fun with it and most important of all have a great day.
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Love the bw, great mood!
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Thanks Marie, I don’t know about you but those types of storms and landscapes I just see in BW.
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I see your point here, and most often it is the same for me, but sometimes it is just up to my mood for the day… 😉
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Yes, mood is a huge factor perhaps both of the photographer and how nature effects the photographers mood as well.
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Hello, Mike & Christine! Hey, I’ve nominated you for the Most Influential Blogger Award. Hope that’s okay. Greatly enjoy your posts.
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Nice shot! I always enjoy photographing changing weather patterns as it happens so quickly.
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Thanks Justin, I agree the weather changes very quickly and getting out into it when it is happening is tons of fun. Hope your day is gin great.
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