18 Awe-Inspiring Photos of the Sky

The sky is one of the most important elements in landscape photography, whether it's the dominant part of a photograph or just barely showing. When it canopies everything below it, the sky sets the mood.

This week, we asked you to show us your most magical skyscape photos. The 550 submissions we received ranged from beautiful sunrise and sunset shots to photos of monstrous clouds and pastel colors in the sky.

Guest curator Andreas Wonisch, a landscape photographer based in Germany, selected the 18 that are featured below.

"I was pleasantly surprised by the huge number and variety of submissions," he said. "I didn't expect there to be so many different creative takes on this one topic." Read more...