Tim Grey’s Blog

Sunshine can be so exhilarating after a few days of overcast, rain, watching the sky, and obsessing over weather forecasts to see when you’ll get some better weather for photography. Last night the forecast called for a lot of cloud cover this morning, but when I woke up and looked out my hotel room window, I was thrilled to see bright sun with some scattered clouds. It was proof that patience really does pay off.

Of course, the excitement over the sunshine and great clouds also meant I got a little over-enthusiastic with the shutter. I captured 1,004 images today, which is double the total I took during the three previous days here in the Palouse combined. Today’s photography was great fun, but it does mean I have my work cut out for me in terms of filtering the images down to my favorites.

One of the things I enjoyed most about the sudden great weather here was that it gave me an opportunity to experiment a lot more with different perspectives and a variety of lenses for each scene we photographed. There was very little waiting for clouds to pass and lots of great light, so between helping students on the workshop I would move around and try a number of variations for each subject. It turned out to be a great exercise in composition. The only problem is, now I have a very high percentage of images I really like, so I’m having a difficult time deciding which are my true favorites. I guess that’s a good problem to have!

This entry was posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 pm and is filed under Weather, Workshops, Creativity, Photography. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.