P10: Atmosphere

A Piece of Heaven

Tags: sun, clouds, rays
This is a picture I took while Sheila Blocher and I were watching her son at baseball practice. We both took very similar pictures. However after seeing how she edited her picture, I decided to use this picture for my submission for atmosphere. Bethany in my group also liked this picture much better than the one that I had settled on. This picture is very inspirational for me. I have always enjoyed watching the rays from the sun reach out from behind the clouds. I think it is one of the most amazing sights in the sky.
I took many pictures of different types of clouds and atmosphere. In fact, the one I had considered submitting separated the sky into a day and night impression of the sky. However, it did not look as amazing as this photo did to me. I cropped this picture and adjusted the saturation and contrast to achieve a majestic glow. I took this shot in several different modes. I tried landscape, auto, and the evening mode trying to see the differences it made in the pictures. The landscape mode took the brightest shot.
This picture could be used in a weather unit. We teach a cloud unit and we could take pictures similar to these to illustrate the clouds. It would be hard to plan to do based on the weather, but I could actually take my kindergarten students out to take pictures of different clouds. They could take pictures to show their understanding of the different types of clouds. We could then take the pictures and then discuss about what type of weather you see when these clouds are present. I think it would make the unit on clouds and weather more meaningful and interesting.