Ocean Waves In The Sky

Five minutes on the road without my Nikon D5000 DSLR camera Tuesday morning, August 26, 2014 and I knew I was going to miss out on something big. Vicious lightning and a photogenic shelf cloud was approaching from the west. So my cell phone camera at once had to suffice. Low light conditions rendered noise on these digital images, but the spectacular flowing cloud formations provided some consolation. All three images were shot near North 15th Avenue and Progress Drive in Hiawatha, Iowa. The top two images, looking north, were captured at 6:16 and 6:21 AM. The bottom image was captured at 6:22 AM and looks south.