North Westerly Cloud Formation

On a recent trip to Rangiora in North Canterbury, I woke up to a intense cloud formation overhead. The spectacle was brought about by an approaching , very hot, dry north westerly wind.

North Westerly Cloud Formation
North Westerly Cloud Formation

I grabbed my GoPro and set it up to time-lapse the scene, you can just see it in the photo above. I then took the 5 photo stitch panorama above with my 5D.
After shooting the first image, I went to a pond in the next paddock to get a bit of foreground interest. This image is also a 5 image panorama.

North Westerly Cloud Formation with pond
North Westerly Cloud Formation with pond

I took a couple of time lapses of this very beautiful event.

The cloud formation was surreal and the North Westerly itself, was brutal.