Michael Wilkins
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A sky filled edge to edge with rippled mackerel cloud lit orange, red and violet by a low sun, no land or horizon in the frame, darker purple cloud pressing in at the top right and along the bottom edge.

Mackerel Cloud, Burning

March 2020

1D X Mark II, 100 millimetres, f 11, 1/125 of a second, ISO 800

No ground. It would only have got in the way.

Nothing in this frame but sky: rippled cloud lit from below, going from orange to violet as it climbs. I pointed the camera up and left the ground out; the sky was the picture. A long lens, to fill the frame with the texture, and the darker cloud at the edges to stop it floating off as pure pattern.