Wheat stubble at sunset

Last night, I went looking for some boards to frame pictures for my upcoming show at the local arts center. I nearly didn’t take my camera, but, at the last second, grabbed it. I’m so glad I did. The light was beautiful. And I got my boards, too.

I have always wondered how I could photograph the beauty of the light playing on fields. I don’t have a wide-angle lens. But last night was so beautiful that I had to try. I felt as if God had painted a beautiful light show just for me and I wanted to capture the beauty.

This morning I started playing with this image in Photoshop. I thought it might be a good black-and-white photo. As I slid around the sliders in the black-and-white adjustment panel, the clouds became more ominous as if a storm were approaching. Our storms usually come from the west or southwest. I was facing east for this picture. Any storm that comes uphill from the east is usually a severe one, so the ominousness fits. Amazing what Photoshop can do.