One of the things I love most about photography is its serendipitous nature.
One moment you’re just sitting at your desk editing something, and then there is a clap of thunder and a deluge ensues and a photograph that you hadn’t even imagined suddenly appears across the street.
Oh the scramble I had to get this while the downpour lasted, running around like a nut. “Where’s my tripod! I need my 200mm lens! Can’t find my ND filters!!! Eeek!”
I only had about ten minutes to pull myself together, but finally managed it. This torrent coming off my barn roof was shot through my dining room window, and I just love the mood and the contrast between dark and harsh and brooding, to light and soft and glowing. It was chucking down and dark like a rug had been pulled over the sun, but the falling water picked up the ambient light and made the whole scene magical.
Here is the big Flickr version.
Meta: Pentax K-3, 200mm f/2.8 lens at around f/8 (various), shutter speeds between .5 and 3 seconds, about a 9-image stack
