HDR of clouds and trees

I read a lot on photography.  One of the more common themes a year or two ago were about finding the “fram within a frame.”  That is to say, find a new composition an existing photo.  For example, take a look to the right.  An HDR from last weekend, which has some incredible light in the clouds, but sorta loses the feel in the trees.  This was hand-held, mind you, so that might have contributed to the trees being off, but it was also slightly windy.

Nonetheless, the light in the clouds was great! Wanting to capture this, I dinked around for a few minutes in photoshop, until I came out with the photo below.

There I go again with abstracts…

HDR Clouds, from cropping in the previous pic