I’ve had my eye on this composition for years, but haven’t found the right conditions to photograph it yet.
I was thinking that the IR would do the trick, but it falls short.
The subject is supposed to be the quarry. With the IR, the trees are the brightest part of the image. The clouds are neat, but they too distract from what I intend the subject to be.
I’ll continue to wait for that late-day in a summer when I am nearby and the doppler radar reveals that a bank of dark clouds will be moving from west to east (foreground to background) after a storm with sunlight behind it. The trees will be a illuminated by a bright warm yellow light, contrasting with a dark blue cloudy background, while the metal construction on the quarry buildings reflect back the bright post-storm light. Then all the ingredients will be there for the quarry to be the subject as I intended.
Even still, it probably wouldn’t be one of my best images, but it would be proof that I could do the best I could conceive of at this one particular location.
Until then, though, this will image have to suffice.