Have you ever thought, or said, the following?

Waah. It’s raining, I can’t take pictures.

There’s no sun, I can’t take pictures.

Don’t you believe it. A cloudy, rainy day is better than a sunny day in so many ways.

• No harsh shadows to wrinkle clothes (or faces)
• No squinting eyes
• Saturated colour
• No impossible contrast to handle
• Those great raindrops

The other day, I took a few snaps during the Henry’s Creative Urban Photography walkaround. Here’s a few of them: are those saturated colours not beautiful?

Leaf in the rain

Flower in the rain

Turning Leaves in the rain

Oakville in the rain

Tired Flowers

Oakville plants in the rain

Oakville door

A rainy, overcast, dreary day: provided you expose properly (remember exposure compensation. Hint: it’ll likely be “minus”), there’s really nothing quite like it.