Leeuwarden II #1: Approaching Hail Shower

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

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