About the Image(s)

This image was taken in 2016, but it's one of my favorites. It was handheld, taken with my Canon 7D. f/140, 1/400, ISO 100. When I was in Mammoth, CA., it was late summer and people were using the snow runs for their mountain bikes. I took the ski lift to the top to get some pix of them. The clouds were fantastic, so I started shooting them, instead. It looked like the broken-down fence was trying to hold back the advancing, almost menacing clouds. I'd like to know if anyone would have edited it differently.

After trying various crops, I decided that the cloud with the “horns� was the most interesting. I also tried various crops for the foreground and decided on a tight crop to emphasize the size and drama of the clouds. Cropping in from the left eliminated the leaning post. Silver Efex, curves and dodging and burning was used to get the drama I wanted. Topaz DeNoise was the final edit.