Clouds have been a big deal for me ever since early childhood, and were the subject of some of my earliest photos. So when the New York Times recently published a photo article on “Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds“, a piece recognizing the Cloud Appreciation Society, I asked some of my photographer friends with whom I regularly correspond to show us an example of their own cloud pieces.

Learn more about the Cloud Appreciation Society here and here.

Bill responds with a formal study perhaps evoking Alfred Steiglitz, Jim offers a cloudless alternative with a nod to Ansel Adams, I grab the first two images returned from a keyword search of my catalogs, John commemorates the death of a friend, and Corbin makes us want to join him for a stroll on the beach of his Venice neighborhood.