Environment
The Story Behind That Incredible Photo of Denver's Colossal Cloud
Believe it or not, little digital trickery was involved in the making this image of a monster cumulonimbus dominating Denver.
Denver's not a piddling place – the city-county has 634,000 residents and 155 square miles of high-plains real estate, making it Colorado's largest 'burg. But stack it alongside this colossal cloud that materialized Saturday afternoon, and it looks like an itsy-bitsy base camp below an Everest of roiling smoke.
Here it is in panorama: