Alison Meier's photos with the keyword: clouds

Rarangi Beach sits near the top of the East Coast of new Zealand's South Island. It is a stark, shingle beach, and not one that invites swimming. The day we visited, huge black clouds were looming up over the hills. You could see the rain falling heavily on the back hills in the far distance. The clouds were moving quickly towards us and boiling up over the hills as they did so.

Although the early evening steam from this wood-pulp processing factory chimney near Nelson, New Zealand looked impressive from close up, getting some distance on the factory revealed a different reality. The setting sun gave the whole image a very pleasing warmth. Processed initially with three bracketed images using SNS_HDR Lite, then taken into Photoshop CS5 for final adjustments.

We were in the Waikato, beside Lake Karapiro, which is a hydo lake. The sun was shining on the hills around, but rain-cloud was looming up behind them in the south east. The hay barn looked small and vulnerable beneath the towering, dark clouds. I like the simplicity of this image, with the few elements telling a story.