I don’t live out in the country or spend much time on a beach or anywhere else where I have unimpeded views of the sky. I live in the burb’s of south Tulsa so my views of the sky are pretty messed up I guess. I’ve got powerlines and telephone lines and light poles and cell phone towers, ugly ass bradford pear trees, and my neighbors houses, and all sorts of other stuff occluding my view. I don’t worry about it though, that is where I live for good or bad. I’ll pick my shots to avoid the as much as the noise that I can and go with it .
I don’t worship unfiltered SOOC images either. I use all sorts of filters, effects, and treatments. Sorry about that but often the image doesn’t match what I see. I don’t even know what SOOC means any more with all the in camera processing available now.
Anyhow we were on a family dog walk in the greenbelt the other night and the sun was going down but I had all these powerlines in the way but what the heck!!
How about you? Do you go for the pure shot or settle for less?
This is a lovely shot! I’m not a big fan of over-processed shots, but I do like artistic ones.
Gorgeous!! ( :
That is one fabulous sky shot – I’m closing my eyes to the power lines.
Marvelous edited sky shot for SWF ~ The colors are magnificently done!
artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)
Pure? What’s that? Your sky looks like a giant silk parachute.
Very interesting colors and pattern in those clouds. I love that you seem to take a camera nearly everywhere you go.
I shoot em as I see em! But sometimes I process em. A little bit, without as much talent as you . Often I don’t even notice see those lines when I’m getting ready to take a sunset or cloud and then am surprised when they show up in the pictures. “Wow I didn’t even see those when I was looking at the sky.”
Living in the city…ok…some might argue that I live in city, especially those who live in huge metropolitan areas, but to me I live in a city and I find it hard to escape the noise in my sky perspective shots. Like you, it doesn’t stop me. The moment is captured and enjoyed forever. Of course, I do look for every opportunity that I can to catch those magical moments without interference of man-made or natural eye sores. Oh yeah, sometimes I even do a little photo-editing to bring out different moods or to enhance what I see that didn’t quite come through my lens eye right. 😀 Nice #SWF contribution, Alan!
It’s a great shot, and sky, powerlines and all.