The winter that wasn't...

Here in the Inland Northwest, as we like to call Eastern Washington and parts of North Idaho, the landscape has been dreary and disappointing, for the most part! I was hoping to take endless pictures of rural landscape with snow &/or fog this winter. Not workin' out that way.

Well, you have to go with what you've got. Since landscape and still life haven't provided opportunities, I'll do the best I can with a construction site! Clouds are a favorite subject so here's another one. One lesson to take from this one is "perspective"- the guys on the crew are focused on the building, some detail that needs to be corrected. Sure, we have to do our work well but look at the sky above. While the mundane is tended to, perhaps God's creation around us will provide some inspiration or a sense of the larger picture-

Sucker for good clouds...

I have always enjoyed capturing images of clouds that depict movement. We frequently have two cloud types in Eastern Washington- cotton-ball type massive formations that involve a linear pattern of motion, and then simple, stretched thin cirrus-looking clouds which appear in radial fashion when you use a wide-angle lens.

Here is a shot from two days ago on the construction site I am inspecting-