Pourring with rain...

[Peter S.]

Dear fellow camera collectors,

I went to work to the company headquarters. I had to take the
dog with me (he had to stay in the car for a couple of hours).
So I decided to drive another 15 miles and arrived here:



Well, it was pouring with rain, and it was 1000ft above the place
I left my car. I had to hurry, since I left the car at 17:15, i.e. one
hour until the break of dawn. It was pourring with rain, and I came
back totally wet, even though I had an umbrella with me.

OK, one should learn that an umbrella is useless against rain
that impacts horizontally...

A picture taken on summer can be found here: (it shows the
position I took my pic on the very left hand side just inside
a group of fir trees)

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Seealpsee.jpg

Sorry, my picture isn't a good one. But the weather was even
worse than it might seem.

Best regards
Peter

PS: on usual Februar days it is supposed to be covered by a
thick layer of snow.

PS2: taken with my Oly C8080WZ, auto mode, I needed to work
fast, since I don't want the camera to become too wet.

[byuphoto]

That is one beautiful alpine lake

[SidW]

That's a magnificent picture of a magnificent lake.

[Peter S.]

Dear Sid,

I am glad You like the scene!

The picture did record what was there, more or less. The distant shoreline divides the
picture into two halfs, and I doubt, that this is a perfect arrangement. I was however
very uncomfortable with the weather (the rain came from the back, otherwise I wouldn't
have the camera packed out at all). And this was the only reasonable point, to get a
shot from.

I hate white skies. There are few exceptions. This is not.

But this is the current sight of the season here... and I am so eager to use my new toy
(a 500c/m Hassie), but I won't waste a 6x6 slide on that weather. I wish we had snow
as on the Lake Ontario.

Best regards
Peter

[John Parry]

Lovely photo Peter. The shoreline isn't important, the hill in the right foreground breaks it up beautifully. Well done!

Regards - John

[nikonbob]

Love the photo and you have far more perseverance than I do. I had flashes of some scenes from the Canadian Rockies before I realized where the photo was taken.

Bob