Thanks for the kind words, rainfall. To be honest I've tried in the past to capture impressive cloud formations both ways (with a horizon - or mountains in some case - and without). But I was never really happy with the shots that had both cloud and landscape, because it was hard to find a balancing point whereby neither detracted from the other. It was difficult to make a "whole" IOW... so this time I went strictly without horizon.

I will say it was fun just shooting them because it really allowed me to use a bunch of odd angles / really get into it without worrying about tilted horizons and the like.