Nilo Photography
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These amazing shots!
Friday's Focus - 2019/06/07 - Rain
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Nilo Photography
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That's some storm going on Alan!I decided to see if I could find a shot from one of my December storm trips to the coast to illustrate the problems of trying to shoot in Real Rain(TM) along the coastline. In this case my wife and I were staying at a motel in Depoe Bay with close to hurricane force winds and pounding rains. My wife had no interest in going out so I grabbed my gear and headed for a place called Rocky Point just south of where we were staying. There was no way to get out to shoot so I decided to try something radical and parked my wife's X3 so the driver's window was facing into the wind and then set up my tripod on the passenger seat with my camera aimed out the passenger window. I set up the shot as best I could and then opened the passenger window to squeeze off some shots before closing the window and using a towel to clean up the spray that came flying in while I had it open. I had water spots on my lens by the time I squeezed off the second shot. This is looking north from Rocky Point:
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Visibility in a storm like this one is so limited that I abandoned the notion of bothering to try this on subsequent trips but it is an example of shooting in extreme rains
AlanLichty
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That storm broke a lot of things along the central Oregon coastline. Not entirely unusual for mid to late December along that coast.
If Lenny had shot tighter Alan you would have also seen a glazed over zombie like Instagram look in each of those peoples eyes...
AlanLichty
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There is almost nowhere that is immune from that look anymore. A news story on the crowds on top of Mt. Everest showed one group that had just made it to the summit - and immediately assuming the arms stretched out Instagram pose for the cameras. Now if someone would just repeat that pose from the bottom of the Mariana Trench the conquest of the planet will be completeIf Lenny had shot tighter Alan you would have also seen a glazed over zombie like Instagram look in each of those peoples eyes...
rfkiii
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I drove by there on my way to the North Rim in 2016 and the parking lot was jammed full of cars and several of those large Tour buses. I did a U turn in the parking lot and high tailed it to the North Rim cussing only slightly for my loss of time.
Douglas Sherman
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We get lots of rain in July and August from the monsoon winds. And these produce some potentially great images. Here are two of my favorite monsoon images from Grand Canyon. Better late than never.
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These are really sweet Doug! It must be great to live that close to the Grand Canyon during monsoon season.
Jim Dockery
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Those are great Douglas - I wish I could handle the heat down there to enjoy the monsoons.