On Sunday morning I woke up early for a long drive to Houston, TX. The sky was overcast and hinting of the 24 hours of rain that was to come. As I was driving and about to get on the highway, miraculously in the middle of the sky an opening appeared in the clouds and the bright morning sun poured through like a light waterfall.
I pulled over on the side of the road and snapped this photo. I was fortunate because I had my Canon 5D Mark II in the seat beside me with the 70-200mm lens attached. After I took about 5 shots I hopped in the car and continued. Within 30 seconds the opening was gone.
I’m making two versions available. First a color version:
Next a Black & White:
Both are 1920 x 1280 so they should work for just about any desktop size. Just click through to get the larger version. And if you’d like to get access to the full size image I uploaded them to my Flickr account.
I hope you all enjoy, and I hope these bring a little sunshine into your life as well. Cheers!
Roko says
March 15, 2010 at 3:28 amI agree with Nehh, the color version is definitely better…
Nehh says
August 3, 2009 at 2:36 pmWow that’s a nice picture! I liked the color version :)
shaunjudy says
August 1, 2009 at 7:17 pmWOW! That is a nice shot. Good thing you had happen to look up and see the rays shining though.
brad says
July 31, 2009 at 11:26 amthis is an awesome picture very beautifull this rocks
fas says
July 29, 2009 at 10:50 amThis is just awesome. I would give you 98/100 for these shots :)
Mircea nunti says
July 28, 2009 at 4:39 pmNice camera to take all over with you. Nice shot , i used to see clouds like these on the sea. And they are beautiful .
I enjoy the color version.
ShaDow says
July 28, 2009 at 2:08 pmThats a nice pic..I myself like taking such pictures..I had taken a some what similar pic..but it was orange light piercing through the sky…
Scott Ellis says
July 28, 2009 at 11:37 amJohn nice shot.. I’ve keep a running log of cool sky pictures from through out the years. We should start a collection! FYI, all of my published images are creative commons share-alike attribution so anyone is free to use them as long as they credit.