Sometimes you just need to look up. You don't need to be a cloud spotter to love a poetic curl of cirrus or the pillowy expanses of cumulus that float beneath the aircraft's wings as we head off on holiday.
No technique particularly - just look up from time to time until you see something interesting. Decide if you want to include a dark line of horizon or a roof line or just keep it blue and white. I usually add a horizon line to give a sense of place and scale.
Cloud colours intensify as the light fades so sunset is a good time. You can also edit your images to add intensity
Click One-A-Day Clouds
The Cloud Appreciation Society
Elephant Bear Dragon
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Serendipity - March 31st 2020 - Above Hampton Wick - PH
Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs - Alfried Stieglitz
"In the summer of 1922, Alfred Stieglitz began to take photographs of clouds, tilting his hand camera towards the sky to produce dizzying and abstract images of their ethereal forms. In an article the following year, Stieglitz maintained that these works were a culmination of everything he had learned about photography in the previous forty years:
“Through clouds I wanted to put down my philosophy of life—to show that my photographs were not due to subject matter—not to special trees, or faces, or interiors, to special privileges, clouds were there for everyone—no tax as yet on them—free.”
Over the next eight years, he made some 350 cloud studies"
See the images here archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/equivalents/
