Late Noon Snow Clouds

This appears to be a black-and-white night shot, when in fact I took this color photo at the spur of the moment dismissing it as something that would probably not come out all that good. In fact, I found it was rather atmospheric. No retouching was necessary for this natural effect of the sun behind some thick snow-burdened clouds.

"It was a dark day, the heavens shut out with dense snow clouds, and the trees wetting me with the melting snow, when going through B____'s wood on Fair Haven, which they are cutting off, and suddenly looking between the stems of the trees, I thought I saw an extensive fire in the western horizon. It was a bright coppery yellow fair weather cloud along the edge of the horizon, gold with some alloy of copper, in such contrast with the remaining clouds as to suggest nothing less than fire. On that side, the clouds which covered our day, low in the horizon, with a dim and smoke-like edge, were rolled up like a curtain with heavy folds, revealing this further bright curtain beyond." Thoreau, Journal - January 5, 1852