As I was driving yesterday, I drove through some heavy rain, and after it cleared, I noticed the clouds were simply awesome: tons of contrast and waves. I got off the highway and began searching for a subject to highlight these clouds. I originally was looking for a vantage point for rolling hills across the scene or such, but I passed a farm with this old, scraggly dead tree perched atop a hill, with some hay bales at the foot of the hill. I asked the farmer if he would mind if I took some photos. He said to go ahead and I had about 5 minutes to shoot before the clouds had passed and returned to a more normal gray and white.
![The Lone Tree - Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Panasonic 35-100mm f/2.8 @ f/5](https://admiringlight.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/scraggly_tree_bw-1024x784.jpg)
![tree_bales](https://admiringlight.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tree_bales.jpg)
![Ominous - Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 @ f/8](https://admiringlight.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tree_bales_birds.jpg)
Great photos. Would you be able to post the out of camera colour image for comparison?