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Some words about image enhancement. I don't like it. The photos I scan for "Gallery" are as close to the verisimilitude of the print or projected transparency as possible. If changes are made (increased contrast, coloration, lightening or darkening of the image), I will so indicate. (Images found in "The Wry Sky" are another matter altogether.)

Stratus at sunrise, Inverness, Scotland, 1992, (no photo enhancement!)

 Lenticular motherships, Palm Desert, CA, May, 1985 (lightened 1/3 f stop)

Sunset illuminates virga with rainbow over Cortez, Colorado, July 2004

Mammatus over Santorini, Greece, 1992

"Northern Lake Squall," Miniature Watercolor, 2002

"Stratus on the Flats," Miniature Watercolor, 2002

 "Lake Effect," Miniature Watercolor, 2000

"Colorado Outflow," Miniature Watercolor, 2001

"Cloud Flash," Miniature Watercolor, 2001

"Towers," Miniature Watercolor, 2001

"Cloud to Ground," Miniature Watercolor, 1999

Sundown near Spencer, SD, May 30, 1998, (lightened 1/3 f stop) Alexandria link.

THREE CHASE PHOTOS 2001

May 25, motel parking lot, Brownfield, Texas

May 27, "Sheriffnado" south of Dodge

May 27, south of Dodge

Artists have their own widely distinctive ways of depicting and interpreting severe weather. Here are three examples:

"Tornado Over Kansas" by John Steuart Curry. Oil on canvas, 1927. 50.5" x 64.75" Muskegan Museum of Art, Muskegan, MI.
John Steuart Curry, 1897-1946. A leader (with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood) of the '30s Regionalist movement that depicted the human condition of rural America. Curry felt that man's struggle with nature "has been a determining factor in my art expression. It is my tradition and the tradition of the great majority of Kansas people."

"The Angel Turns the Storm" by Howard Finster. Tractor enamel on board, 1977. 19.5" x 26.5" Private collection.
Howard Finster, born 1916. A Baptist preacher since his teens, Finster received a divine dictum in 1976 to "paint sacred art." Since then he has created over 40,000 works of art, each individually numbered (this one #414).

Walter De Maria, born 1935, a sculptor and creator of Land Art whose adherents (such as artists Robert Smithson, James Turrell and Andy Goldsworthy) manipulate the physical environment, sometimes on a grand scale.
"The Lightning Field." A 1.6 x 1 kilometer rectangular grid of 400 pointed-tipped, stainless steel rods spaced 220 feet apart. 1977. Quemado, NM.