Storm warning, seems like a heavy rain...

Arnside storm, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

...sang Bonnie Raitt in the only country and western song ever to have invoked any emotion whatsoever in me. The lyrics came back to me this week in Arnside as yet another flock of black, rain laden clouds swept over the town from the West.
I took this picture last year, before I discovered the delights of Photomatix and HDR, and in an effort to make the clouds more pronounced, I spent ages cutting the photograph in half along the line of the rooftops, and then increasing the contrast in the top half, and lightening the buildings in the lower half. At the time I thought this was a pretty cool way of achieving a differential exposure of the image, and that it made Arnside look like a small town in Transylvania.
On reflection, it was more like using scissors and glue to make a collage for my Dracula project at primary school.