03 April 2011

Clouds Over Crow Butte, April 3, 2011

Clouds over Dawes County, Nebraska, April 2011. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)
It was a Sunday afternoon with soft, but dramatic, clouds in the sky. I drove down a gravel road, looking for an angle on Crow Butte, and this simple scene seemed sufficient. The nearby tree provides a tiny bit of foreground material to punctuate things, but the key pieces are the butte itself and the wonderful clouds above. I like the closer puffs set against the soft striations beyond. I should play with the details at the bottom, to keep the tree from disappearing against the hills behind it.