An ominous sky over the river. I went for cool colors in the editing so the scene feels threatening. I was forced to use a high ISO setting, so this is a low quality image (grainy), but you can still get something out of it.
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Ominesence: the state or quality of being ominous. The real word is ominousness, but I made up this alternate. This is a river and city with dark clouds overhead. The right side is bright light and good weather, though it too is broached by darkness. I took this in a moving car crossing a bridge; you can see the railing at the bottom. Used a 1/250 second shutter speed to freeze the scene, though I had to go up to ISO800 because it was so dark out.
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Source image, compiled from the Canon Rebel XTi RAW file using the default settings in PhotoFiltre Studio.
