Winter Sky

Traveling thru the Michigan countryside trying to combat cabin fever, carrying my camera as usual, I enjoyed the subtle beauty of the winter landscape. I marvel how it provides a blanket  covering the land with it cloak of white. I captured this sky scene in as the day drew short on the Ionia and Montcalm county borders.

Cloudscapes

Cloudscapes are what help to make our world unique. When viewed from space they illustrate the dynamics of our planets wind and water system. When viewed from the surface they still help to show the planets wind and water cycle but also serve to fire up the visionary imagination. Clouds become mountains, ships, dragons, their shapes and forms are only limited by what we see in the sky and our mind. They are one thing one minute, another the next, resculped by the winds of time.

Often when out with the camera I find the area about me to be unappealing to my visionary mindset but I have only to look to the heavens to find a challenge of images. It is often best to sit down beneath these skies and contemplate the artwork that our Creator has gifted us with.

The Flight Of The Phoenix, the title of the posted image, was part of the ever changing skies today. It was captured with a Canon 1DS, 70-200mm L Lens, Processed in Photoshop CS4, Manipulated with Nik Color FX and Viveza.