Cloud Cult
Every summer in Florida, it rains. And I don’t mean a few days, or some days, or most days.It rains every day.
I keep wanting to invent words for all the different kinds of rain we get, like all the words the Eskimos have for the different types of snow. I remember last year, I wanted so badly to translate through photography that beautiful, sparkling, dreary rain, and I didn’t know how without getting my camera wet.
Enter the K200D. With the DA* lenses (I own the 16-50/2.8, the 50-135/2.8, and the 200/2.8 - and no, the 300/4 isn’t on the horizon for me, thanks), my kit is “weatherproof,” whatever that means. I’ve decided to interpret that as “rain-approved.”
I had an early meeting at work today, so I got home around 5:30 in the afternoon. It was raining when I got home, of course, but the sun was breaking through the clouds and it was just MAGIC. I ran inside so quickly I didn’t even close my car door properly, ripped off my work clothes, threw on the nearest dress, and grabbed my camera, tripod, and remote. I set up my tripod on my porch and aimed at the very narrow opening between my neighbor’s tree on one side and the other neighbor’s bush on the other. I went and stood in the rain and had enough time to get off about ten shots before the sun went behind a cloud. It never came out again, but I got what I wanted:
July 22nd, 200810:59 am at
Terrific shot and a terrific idea.