The weather this year has been awful, it has been a total washout and it was time to take full advantage of this, I’d been keeping eye on the weather channel and there was the promise of heavy rain Tuesday and Wednesday, I chose Wednesday and in the morning I headed up to Cambridge with the hope the weather channel was right and there was going to be heavy rain and that’s just what I got. Most of the time when it rains people will still come out, however, Cambridge was almost empty. Now the city being empty can sometimes be a good thing, as when Cambridge itself is busy I have a hard time shooting.
Instead of power walking around the city, I’d decided before I arrived to take it easy and for the first time, I stuck to that, at the start of the day it was dry and dull so I was mostly shooting through the windows of shops restaurants, etc. After lunch, my prays were answered when the heavens opened and the umbrellas came out and so did the people, maybe like me everyone was waiting for the rain, who knows.
I’m back shooting with one camera and one lens, which as you know allows me to focus on taking photos instead of the gear. I was getting up close and personal to the people allowing me to get some nice bokeh and focusing the eye right where I wanted it. As you’ll see in the photos I was getting very close and in some cases, I was right under the people’s umbrellas and you know, nobody noticed.
In the afternoon I met up with Matt (the13thsecond) and we spent the next few hours playing in the rain, I say playing as we really did feel like children splashing about in the rain, laughing at each other as we got drenched, it’s been a while since I’d had this much fun shooting street photography and I owe it all to Matt and the rain.
I was drenched by the end of the day, but I still had a smile on my face, I had so much fun shooting in the rain and I can’t wait till next time.
