Cloudscapes

It was one of those days where you really want to do some disciplined and scientific photography, but all you find is a peanut to take snaps of. Fortunately for me I came across a seed of a jackfruit lying around basking in the glory of the afternoon sun. Thinking something is better than nothing, I got hold of a close up shot of the jackfruit seed - of course this was before the clouds had built up and I had an opportunity to take some good first time exposures of those. The Jackfruit seed turned out as the image below in the CCD of the camera.

Close up of a Jack fruit Seed

I had bought a new Nikkor 55-300 mm VR lens, and was disappointed for just finding the jackfruit seed to take shots of. Then as if to answer my prayers, the skies went beautifully gloomy and majestic clouds started to form with a bladder full of water to sprinkle on the earth. After waiting for about two and half hours, I was able to take the following exposures -

A Random Cloud Formation

What does this look like? Is there a UFO?

Reminds me of Snow lifting of the Himalayas

Dumbfounded!!!

Looks like a Snow Mountain

A Small strip of rainbow can be seen in this exposure

A Heavenly Avalanche

Windswept clouds

Most of the need I felt when I was taking the exposure was of a Neutral Density filter which would have deepened the colors of the sky and improved the contrast of the image. Alas, I am yet to buy one and will have to go with what I've got.

Hope you enjoyed... More to come...