Leeuwarden II #1: Approaching Hail Shower

Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 4 February 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

Haiku:
Dark grey covers the sky
Bright sunlight colors the city
One flees for the shower

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Comments (11)

the lightwriter from oosterwolde, Netherlands

Nice atmosphere. I recognize the kind of weather and it gives us many beautyful moments full of contrast and changes.

4 Feb 2008 2:07am

Steven from Montreal, Canada

Looks very ominous, well captured!

4 Feb 2008 3:53am

Wolfgang Prigge from Canada

Un vrai ciel de plomb, belle capture!

4 Feb 2008 6:50am

@Wolfgang Prigge: Tige tank Wolfgang! Sjoch ek wat ik skreaun ha oan Lorraine :)

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

Fantastic Erik!!! One of the best 'Run from storm' photo I've ever seen, there's that leaden sky and the sense of drama, wow You did good!!! :)

4 Feb 2008 7:39am

@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine, I consider it as one of my best pictures. Everything came together for this picture in one second: the people, the cars (red!!), the sky and the sun. One second later and the pic's value would have decreased drastically! The only thing that bothers me is the lack of crisp, despite its 1/1000 second shuttertime. I'm thinking of another camera (mine is now only 4.1 MP) but first I have to experiment with my analog camera, I've just brought some interesting negatives to a specialist who has a laser scanner that scans the negatives instead of the prints. I've seen amazing results with a friend but these were from a full-fledged Leica (I have a Canon EOS).

Gérard-Pierre Lussier from Granby, Canada

Les joies et les beautés de l'hiver.
Belle prise de vue qui résume bien les conditions de ce ciel menaçant.
Bravo et salutations !
GPierre

4 Feb 2008 11:01am

@Gérard-Pierre Lussier: Merci bien, Gérard-Pierre, je suis heureux de montrer quelque chose de Leeuwarden, comme j'ai beaucoup de plaisir de regarder les vues de votre belle ville et ses environs.

Ginnie from Atlanta, United States

Just yesterday we were driving through downtown Atlanta with the sun shining at our back and the sky lowering ahead. It had this same feel, Erik. I love the calm before the storm. :)

4 Feb 2008 8:58pm

@Ginnie: It always looks more threatening than it really turns out to be. It's the sharp difference between sunlight and the light of a heavily clouded day. Our eyes get soon used to the two kinds of light, but you notice the difference when you adjust the lighting conditions of the camera. Now it's 0.001 seconds, but when the clouds will cover the sky it will maybe 0.10 seconds or more, and the people will be heavily blurred by their movements. Photography is fascinating.

ajoeh from Mataram, Indonesia

Perfect moment, nicely captured.

5 Feb 2008 12:24am

@ajoeh: Thanks Ajoeh, I think you'll have these moments in your country too during the wet season.

eddy from Tehran, Iran

I love the lighting of the photo

5 Feb 2008 4:18am

Dhini from Dordrecht, Netherlands

Mooi moment

5 Feb 2008 8:16am

baobab from Cambridge, United States

Nice capture - I like the way the cloud cuts the light from the almost-silhouetted figures in the foreground, while the cars are in bright sunlight. The lights on the rhs look a bit like a UFO.

6 Feb 2008 5:37pm

Japanalia from Yokohama, Japan

Threatening skies, but...there's still a ray of sunlight playing on the red cards and the buildings! Like in every drama...there's a seed of hope!

11 Feb 2008 12:33am

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