Blackpool (holiday resort North West England) War Memorial and Centotaph.
First World War memorial with additional Second World War and later 20th century war inscriptions. Originally erected 1923 by the County Borough of Blackpool. Architect Ernest Prestwich. Bronze sculptures by Gilbert Ledward. HA Clegg & Sons builders. Messrs Kirkpatrick stonemasons.
Sorry but this one doesn’t work for me at all. My eye is drawn first to the vast empty foreground, then to the cenotaph. I only noticed the clouds once I realised this image was in the B&W clouds topic.
@stuck No need to be sorry 
I actually considered cropping it 1:1, but decided on 4:3. Personally my eyes are drawn to clouds, or I wouldn’t have posted the image. It wouldn’t do if we all had the same taste in images, and feedback is always appreciated.
Curious - what focal length lens was this photo shot with?
I suspect an extreme wide angle lens, 21mm ?
If I may be so bold - there is an obvious halo around the memorial, very common to overuse of certain LA tools.
If you would like to post the original and its DOP, there are ways of avoiding this.
If I may interrupt this conversation to announce that Helen and I may well have to give up cloud photography for good. I stumbled across a certain Mitch Dobrowner
Sheesh!!! Although it might have something to do with the fact that he obviously storm chases in areas that regularly produce such marvels. Anyone got a spare few thousand Euros and a Winnebago for a couple of years? 
But then I watched a video of one of his talks, which I found to be very encouraging, so it looks like I will be around for sometime to come, still learning from the greats and experimenting.
In the meantime, I have already posted one of Helen’s in another topic…
And here are two more that she took a few weeks ago less than five kilometres from home…
Joanna,
I processed the black & white image using Nik Collection 6 SilverEfex. In effect, the image in the forum is a JPEG produced from a rather large TIFF. Any pointers about reducing the halo would of course be appreciated.
Patrick
Joanna,
Helen’s images really are spectacular!
I agree about how wonderful the images are, but it’s very important to always consider safety. I am trying to get a link to the recent webinar that I participated in, so you can watch it should you wish to.
You (or Helen) don’t want to put yourself in the path of an oncoming tornado.
The general links are:
webinars@myradar.com
…and:
MyRadar Webinar | Tornado Talk: The Science of Severe Weather
Wow! Very expressive! 
Ah! In which case, I have absolutely no idea, since I only ever work in PhotoLab, from RAW files (most of the time)
I may well have a go at processing the image in PL7 & FP7, and see if I can improve the image. I could also rework it in SilverEfex, as the application has an extensive selection of local adjustments thanks to its Nik heritage.
We live on the northwest coast of Brittany. We don’t have the massive warm and cold air masses that you have in the US. We are on a peninsula, surrounded by relatively cold seas.
A sort of double edged sword, because it really limits our opportunities. The clouds that Helen took were just clouds with no winds worth worrying about.
The image was processed in Nik SilverEfex 6. It shows a threatening sky, and the sea defences at Anchorsholme at the north end of Blackpool, an Irish Sea coast holiday resort in North West England.
@Joanna N’y aurait-il pas un peu trop d’accentuation** sur les deux images d’Helen ?
** I don’t know the English for this word.
Les fichiers ont été préparés pour l’impression en grand format, de sorte qu’ils ont tendance à paraître un peu croquants à une taille plus petite.
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Annex, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Virginia . The Annex is not the facility located in Washington D.C.
Mark
I went out for brunch with my nephew, and as he was driving me home, he told me he wanted a photo of Biscayne Bay with the unusual clouds.
For better or worse, this is what we saw. I didn’t like the color version, so I went back to Fuji Neopan Acros 100. The red filter did what I expected it to do, but the photo no longer looked “real”, whatever that means.
By the time this image was on my computer, the clouds were overhead, and there was no more blue sky to be seen. My moral from that story - never hesitate to take a photo. Capture what you see, and then try to improve on it.
