The Nexus

[Patrick Sparkman]

Denise's Teton abstract inspired me to think OOTB. Against my suggestion, this one is completely lacking context. Last night we had thunderstorms roll through North Texas and I wanted to get some shots.

One Tornado producing cell was about 10 miles from the house. There was a lot of lightning, and hail at the house, but the backlit cloud was beautiful. I wanted to stay under the porch of the house, making wide angle shots difficult.

I got the 800 out and started shooting the silver lining of the cloud. This is the silver outline, near the sun, which is in the TR of the image. I increased the WB temp, and ran it through Fractalius. I wish this was a 16 bit color app, so the gradient was smoother. Oh yea, and make it run on the Mac also. ;)

Kind of reminds me of the "Nexus Wave" on the Star Trek movie. All suggestions, and comments welcome.

Canon 1D IV, Canon 800 f5.6 IS, ISO 250, f32, 1/250 sec

[Steve Adkins]

Hi Patrick,
Powerful, balanced composition. The strong reds and dark LLC complement each other in this frac/abstract. Appreciate the back story(context) and glad the storm kept it's distance. :)

[denise ippolito]

Patrick, The colors are stunning. I like the way the fractalius filter enhanced the look of the silver outline. Love the composition with the gradient BG. Very cool image! I am glad that my Teton image inspired you.:)

[Indranil Sircar]

Excellent composition, Patrick. I am glad the wave front is moving away from us :D The gradient color is stunning and I love fract effect on the line. Nicely done.

[Anita Bower]

Super dramatic. Great composition and pp. Very nice with huge impact.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Patrick, I can see this hanging in a Modern Art Museum:) Nice abstract and very dramatic colors.

[Kerry Perkins]

I like this a lot Patrick. Very strong compositional elements with the sun in one corner and darkness in the opposite one. The cloud edge running through the center is spectacular. Love it! :cool:

[Paul Lagasi]

Ditto all the comments above...stunning color, good use of the frac effect...very well done

[Judy Howle]

They've said it all! Wonderful composition, fract and colors.