10 June 2018

Storm Clouds over Dawes County, June 10, 2018

Storm clouds over Dawes County, Nebraska, June 2018. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)

I stopped east of Crawford to photograph some thunderheads. It was a dark and stormy evening. At this location, there are a few trees and fences, but not a lot of foreground material. I think that worked in my favor, because in making the distant power lines the foreground elements, I can emphasize the scale of the storm clouds, which appear massive over the manmade structures and distant hills. I am always fascinated by the shadows clouds cast, which don’t appear to match the perspective I expect from my perspective. There’s that scale again. I like the wavy lines of the rain that appear here and there in the scene.