Velitation

Another fantastic image Gary. I love the clouds, they seem to be dancing.  The streaks of light are wonderful too.

The power and fury of the "Great Weather", humbling indeed. his image captures it well and is especially powerful as monochrome!

Cheers!

This is very beautiful Gary, gloriously moody and wonderful negative space so often mistakenly trimmed to a panoramic where the majesty of open space is diminished and marginalised.  Great lighting.

This fantastic, Gary.  I emphasizes that this big landscape has even bigger skies, and the weather represented shows how erosion created formations like this one.  There is a roundish, face-like shape on the ulc, and it pulls my eye.  It could just be me or if it bothers you too, then a little bit of careful cloning could randomize the shape there.
ML

Wow!!!!! Awesome image, Gary!!! Magnificent light and dramatic scene. Outstanding. 

I actually like this one more in some respects. In this one a horizontal plane is provided which prevents you from thinking the image is tilted. In the previous one the horizon was tilted but the clouds came straight down, so a correction made no sense. Despite the drama of the sky I feel the land has a significant role to play and should be represented more definitely, as in this composition. In both cases I feel a more panoramic view helps underline the horizontal expanse of the subject. So cropping some of the clouds from the top does not diminish the drama but increases it. Again, I would crop off 40% off the top to create a wider landscape.

This is just terrific. The clarity of the pinnacle against the backdrop is stunning....

Awesome, Gary. I like this as is, but I agree with Igor that this would be equally outstanding in a pano or semi pano format. While the top of the sky is great, cropping it creates a fabulous reverse mirror image of the landscape in the sky. Awesome either way. 

A very powerful image. You captured the power of the storm extremely well. 

Wonderful B&W cloudscape with some nice contrast/lighting in the butte and ground.  I can understand some of the other suggestions about taking a little off the top for more of a pano image but for me it is a really nice image as is.  Way to go, very nice composition.

Gary, I echo Harley's words, Magnificent!  An incredible image of light, form, and tone.  Jaw-dropping, exquisite art, Gary.  I   am   in   awe.

Gary, This is one awesome image!! Perfect b&w processing and composition. It works beautifully as is and also with a sky crop. I love it and think it would make one heck of a metal print.
Side note: Talked with Jim Becia on Sunday and he talked about meeting you and Harley. He won best photography at the Spring Green Art Fair.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Very nicely done with the stormy contrast.  The wide-spread peak and left downpour make nice counterpoints.  As others have mentioned, a pano crop would be very nice also.

Love this one Gary, even better than the last one. That lone monument under the threatening sky is wonderful. Well done.

Great composition.  Love the way the sky and ground are attacking each other.  Wonderful tones.

Incredible lighting and sky.  Your processing of these BW brings them to life.  Not much I can suggest for improvement - more of just a matter of taste. I might try some darker tones in the shadow areas of the clouds, but sometimes this creates a blotchy appearance, at least in my images.  I could see a more of a pano crop off the sky to accent the land form too.  Wonderful stuff from this outing

Wow, your just killing it with these dramatic sky images! This one is especially powerful. The spotlighting on the land is incredible. Processing looks great - hard to come up with any suggestions.   

Really enjoying this series of yours, Gary! The position of the cloud relative to the lit face of the rock is perfect :) Congrats on the EP as well!

Stunning sky, Gary! That combined with the extraordinary light on the landscape make this a very compelling image. The B&W processing is superb as usual.

Ed

Woah nilly!

aF

Sure looks like nasty weather rolling in, Gary.  That's an awesome sky with just enough land to show it off.  That single spire really lets the small strip of land hold it's own.

Very powerful image, Gary !  The low horizon line allows the cloudscape the fullest impact - great range of tones too in both the landscape and the sky.