Happy Sunday! After a dose of warm colors with last week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, this week’s challenge, hosted by Anne of Slow Shutter Speed, is all about the variety of weather we, as photographers whether amateur, beginner, or seasoned face in the field as we embark on our masterpieces. I hope you enjoy my take on this theme.
I particularly love a photo that features some kind of bad weather as opposed to a photo taken on a lovely, blue sky, sunshiny day with little to no clouds. I think it makes a photo of an ordinary, perhaps a frequently visited place much more interesting to look at as well as it lends an air of mystery and intrigue, don’t you think?
As much as I love to go out and photograph on those days, I often find the photos tend to turn out a little bored, almost bland.
I sometimes feel with the sky being cloudy and grey, it somehow makes the foreground stands out just a little bit more compared to those photos taken when the sky is nice and blue.
As much as I love bad weather photos, I do have a love/hate relationship with bad weather. I hate being caught in it. I hate being in the rain and being soaked. It makes me anxious about my camera gears getting wet and ruined while it annoys me that I constantly have to wipe the lens while trying to photograph the scene. However, I totally feel it’s worth the trouble because I will have a memorable experience and photo in the end.
Finally, as much as I hate being caught in a bad weather situation, sometimes, being caught in bad weather is inevitable as it’s impossible to predict the weather while planning for a trip. I can’t recall there been a trip in the last few years where I didn’t get caught in bad weather. Instead of looking at it like a disappointment, I like to look at it as a good excuse to plan for a second trip to revisit the site on another day.
This is Another Story 
“When the weather turns bad, the pictures get good.” — National Geographic legend Sam Abell.
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Absolutely.
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Yet, you don’t want to be out in the rain… like my Cocker Spaniels, who will roll around in the mud, but water on their precious heads… oh no, oh no, oh no.🌧️😳
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I can be in the rain for a few minutes but that’s about it. Any longer, I would be cold and soaking wet and my annoying body takes forever to warm up.
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Good point. If you lived in New Orleans in the summer you could take a shower in the hot rain and never be able to dry off because of the humidity.
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Yikes, I know what that’s like and hated it.
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So you think. 🙂 Gulf coast weather makes Japan’s weather feel cool and dry by comparison.
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Actually, I was thinking of Houston, Texas. If New Orleans is worse than that, then it is truly not the place I want to be ever.
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Ever? How about from October to late April when the weather turns cool and the humidity drops? Yesterday, during Mardi Gras Day, people were wearing jackets and coats.
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Probably not ever, maybe during the cooler months, like you wrote – when it turns cool and the humidity drops.
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Beautiful drama in these images. Really awesome!!
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Thank you.
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Great weather images Yinglan! I especially like the images of fog. Fog adds drama to the scene. Well done!
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I agree, fog adds drama and mystery to a photo. 🙂
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No one likes to be caught in bad weather, but as you have shown it makes for great photos, Yinglan. More mood, drama and opportunity to catch, sun rays. Love the eerie look to Monument Valley.
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I think patience is key when it comes to bad weather. The third photo from my post is the example of that. I waited in my car for a while for the sun to shine down on the mountains.
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Yes, often the key.
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I liked the moodiness created by the mist in your first and last photos!
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Thank you. 🙂
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