Apologies to the great B. B. King. This was taken after my last shot when a lot of the great color had dissipated, but I think the clouds are still interesting enough to make the shot worthwhile. What say you?
(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
I agree…I think the clouds are awesome. I might try a couple of things just to see.
Not sure either of those will be better but it’s always fun to experiment.
Great clouds and plenty of interest. To my eye, I would back off the blue/cyan saturation in the sky and the foreground and dodge the field and trees a bit. I like the comp the way it is. Love the sky.
Mike, the thrill of the purple/pink clouds may have been gone at this point, but with lenticular clouds like this, the show continued for at least 45 minutes after sunrise. In terms of composition, I like that you included the row of buttercups near the bottom of the image. But I think you could go for more of a panoramic crop that slices some off the top, which to me places more emphasis on the lenticular clouds.
As @Sean_Bagshaw and @Harley_Goldman have already commented, I think you could lift the exposure of the landscape a bit, and you could back off the blue/cyan as well. I didn’t notice while you were shooting (I was kind of busy myself), but do you use a grad ND filter or do you bracket/blend exposures? While you can lift the landscape exposure from this single image, a bracket/blend approach would produce better results.
At any rate, I downloaded it and took my own stab at re-working this (I thought of it as practice for my own shots from this morning).
I also say yes, Mike. There is still plenty of interest for the viewer to savor starting with those lovely lenticular clouds and working their way down to the mountains and the field of buttercups. I think the couple of tweaks by @Ed_McGuirk Ed have made an already fine image even better. Beautifully done! BTW, I love the title.
Reading the title reminded me of the Eagles title. To me that upper cloud is a little awkward, but not a deal breaker. I really like how @Ed_McGuirk tweaked the exposure. The atmosphere works really well with the lush greens and foothills.
Thanks @Bill_Leggett, @Ed_McGuirk, @Ed_Lowe, @Harley_Goldman and @Sean_Bagshaw.
Ed, your treatment looks fantastic except I still prefer inclusion of the whole top cloud. I’m still old school and use an nd grad most of the time, but I also bracket exposures for future use when I get more adept at exposure blending.
Bill, yes a reference to the Eagles song would have been more fitting since it’s actually the song title. I had the title in my head and the only song I could think of was B B’s which is actually " The Thrill is Gone". I wore the grooves out of those old Eagles albums.
Michael,
You guys were blessed with one awesome atmospheric display - those clouds were the gift that keeps on giving! 
I could go either way with that upper cloud; it is slightly out of place, but I like the extra space it’s providing up top. Cropping is one of those things - either crop it considerably on purpose, or leave it. Besides the glow in the lenticulars is what is the star anyway.
My only suggestion that has been mentioned would be a slight boost in luminosity in the field; maybe not as much as Ed’s, but at least some.
A glorious morning for sure.
Lon
