Whenever you’re out and about, look for shots to add to your collection. Specifically, clouds.
Clouds over the Southwest
Cloud shots with just clouds are usually considered boring, if you want to make your sky shots stand out, include a foreground element so that your reader can place where in the world your shot was taken.
Why would someone have a collection of cloud shots? What if you took a photo and the sky was blown out? Didn’t HDR or even think to. Take your shot, mask the blown out boring sky and insert a new one.
But isn’t that cheating? I’m a photography purist, and this is on the fence for me – but why shouldn’t you be allowed to enhance an image to make it look like you saw it when you clicked that shutter button? Other things to ‘collect’? How about landscapes, seascapes, letters and numbers, signs? These last suggestions are a bit different than collecting skies for use later, but collect what you like, you never know when you need an element added to your image that makes all the difference in the world.
Stunning scenery.
The colors, those blue skies, the wide angle – All works perfectly together.