Lately we have had lots of thunderstorms around, but none really hitting our town. Tonight was no different. I looked on the radar and a massive thunderstorm was heading straight for us. Then it died as it tried to go over the mountains. I was a little disappointed. I went outside to look and the light was absolutely amazing. The colors that were to the East were where the color of the sun was coming alive.

This photo was hand held and is a three stop HDR that was processed using Lightroom 2 and Photoshop cs5. I had set my camera to cloudy mode, but the colors were so wild that the sensor was fooled. I played with the color in Lightroom to simulate what it looked like. Then I tried to process in Photomatix, but it looked far to overprocessed. I then finished the HDR using CS5 and gave it the surreal look.

Thank you for visiting today.

~wr~

I will have Dave from DCStep on as a blogger this week. Again Thank you to Rikki of Rikkims on flickr for doing the last guest blog.