Ominous Clouds
It was a sticky 31oC (88oF) here in The Netherlands yesterday, and I was hoping for rain, both for nature and for my own cooling down.
I had high hopes when I saw this monster cloud develop as the sun was setting:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 33mm, ISO100, f8, 1/250s
Yes, you can actually see these clouds develop; they come up like boiling milk. Here's a detail of two smaller ones that accompanied the big cumulonimbus:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 150mm, ISO100, f8, 1/320s
It was nearly as archetypical as this cumulonimbus I saw a few years ago, much earlier in the day:
Olympus XZ-1, 50mm, ISO100, f8, 1/1250s
But yesterday's cloud did not do what I had hoped; there were just a few hesitant thunderclaps, and a little bit of rain fell a few hours later.
It did cool down overnight though, so I can move again without dehydrating immediately.
soon
I'm fine with that, as long as it rains 8-).
after the rain
Very nice! :)
Thanks!
Wow! Those are some great cloud photos.
Thanks. One of the more difficult things to photograph for me, it's like there is never enough contrast in the cloud itself and always too much contrast with the surroundings of the cloud. I'm definitely not an Old Dutch Master.
B&W film with a yellow filter, those were the days 8-).
Did you secretly tested some nuclear weapons over there in the Netherlands? 😉
I deny everything.
I do not trust anything until it's officially denied anyway!
