Ash Creek Images
Photographs of the West by Doug Gorsline
A Collapsing Anvil Cloud Provides a Dramatic Background to Wind Turbines
On this early spring, 2008, evening, the low rays of the sun illuminate the westernmost rows of turbines at PPM Energy's Klondike wind farm in Sherman County. These modern windmills each produce enough renewable energy to light hundreds of homes. They are connected to the same BPA power grid that collects and distributes the electricity generated by the lower Columbia River dams; Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day.
The dramatic cloud is the remainder of a towering cumulus cloud that seemed to threaten a thunderstorm a short time earlier. The cloud collapsed and spread without generating any lightning. This photo was taken with a Canon EOS 400D and the EF-S 10-22mm lens set at 10mm, which gives an extremely wide field of view and enhances the dramatic effect of the sky.
