Beneath a burning cloud

Beneath a burning cloud. 2022.

A storm is building just out of frame, but from this distance it feels more like theatre than threat. The last light of the day sets the cloud’s edges on fire, carving out every fold and billow against the cool blue above. Three birds cross the open sky beneath it, small and unhurried, as if they are passing under a slow moving wave. The photograph sits somewhere between calm and unease, a quiet moment borrowed from the kind of weather that tends to arrive with a roar.

145 mm • 1/160 sec • f/10 • ISO 200