Welcome to Too Many Pictures of the Sky. As you might've guessed, but this is pretty much the place I'm going to dump my pictures of the sky.

I understand if you have decided to just run screaming at this point because pictures of the sky can potentially be quite lame.

Especially when one has too many.

There's a little bit of action going on, but nothing too cool. And, let's face it, the weather in Columbia is pretty boring. I have taken literally hundreds of pictures, and most of them come out a lot worse than this, even in the summer after a big thunderstorm and the sky looks really amazing and frightening, all the sublime action working for it, it ends up being super blah on the camera.

The other problem you run into is that pictures of sky can get really repetitive super fast, which makes selecting a handful of decent ones out of hundreds a veritable hell. Like these two.

Like this guy right here:

I like the creepy dark wall of trees on the first one, and the repetition of that angle in the second. The other problem is that since I have a lot of pictures of the sky, I don't have time to fool around with adjusting anything to make them better pictures. This means that none of these have the contrast or levels adjusted. Only a couple did I even bother to crop.

So how does one end up with Too Many Pictures of the Sky? I seem to have the damnedest problems, I suppose.

Well, I do a bad, bad thing. I have my little Nikon Coolpix with me all the time (whether or not it has charged batteries is another question altogether) and sometimes, when the scenery gets pretty cool, I take pictures.

While Driving.

Or did you really think I ran out in the middle of Two Notch to take this picture in the rain?

I told you. Bad bad thing. Don't try that at home. Or on the road.

Leave it to renegade photographers like myself. ;>_>

It started out as me simply needing stock photos of clouds, because I had to design a cleaner, fresher website. Or something.

In the midst of that little venture, I wanted to really capture the expanse of the sky. I found the storm clouds to be more interesting, of course, that's what really got me going on this whole ordeal.

But what killed me, was on winter nights, when the clouds were much lower.

There are over 500 pictures like these.

(This first one is a good approximation of what I see through my left eye without glasses. )

I go back and forth between gravitating towards the light of the city and cars, and the light reflected by the clouds. The one below reminds me a lot of Lea's work.

Coming soon, Too Many Pictures of the City!

You...might be wondering where I'm going to get the city from, considering I live in Columbia. Don't worry. I have pictures of Charlotte. Scary Scary Pictures of Charlotte.