Location Taken: Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, Ontario
Time Taken: June 2010
I really like visiting places when it’s raining. I know, that probably seems weird to most people. If it’s raining, you get wet, and it’s slippery and just kinda gray and icky and wet!
Well, sure it’s gray and wet, but I don’t find it icky. The air is fine and cool and filled with the delicate scent of petrichor. There’s no blazing sun making things too hot and bright (and if you’re allergic to the sun like I am, giving you a headache as well). And because so many people don’t like being out in the rain, it’s nice and empty and you can enjoy the place at your own pace just fine!
The same is true for cold days, too, though a few places actually get more crowded in cold times, like ski resorts. So you got to know the place fairly well to hit the off-season.
If you like quieter times, though, it’s quite worth it. And you get more of a sense that this is something special, something just for you, the view at this time and place.
Even if it’s got rain spitting from the sky and flat gray light that makes photos kinda boring.
At least some things are dynamic enough even with flat light. Like these trees and the board stairway in this photo.
