Near the End of Summer Intensive

Spin and ZoomReflections

These photos were some of the last I took during the Summer Intensive course at the RMSP.  A brief but intense afternoon thunderstorm had just passed over while some friends and I were out eating sushi for dinner.  After the rain let up, those of us with cameras spent some time shooting the departing thunderheads and the puddles they left behind.  The part of town we were in wasn’t very picturesque in my opinion, so I spent more time shooting in close on the clouds.  But those images were a little uninspiring, so I started using some creative techniques like spinning and zooming to make the clouds a little more interesting.  After shooting upwards for a while, it eventually dawned on me to look down and shoot some of the puddles and their reflections.