Wash the Town! Photo

Photographer’s Note

At the road to mountain Vlasic I saw in the mirror of my car this scene. Then I have not to much time to take this capture. The Rain Curtain has come very rapidly right to me. I took tree shots with the result that you can see here!
No further PP, only resized.
You can see _HERE_ almost the same scenery but then with a lovely sunny weather few days later!

carper, jhm, Joker, richtersl, TrippleDB, daninhoc, burdallet, Jeppe, elihesamian, cmartos, ChrisJ, apazevedo, Kresimir has marked this note useful

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carper (65742) 2004-08-25 5:42

Welcome back Don,
Very nice one, good composition, good colours, very nice depth in it great job you did.

emralc (172) 2004-08-25 5:45 [Comment]

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oochappan (22032) 2004-08-25 5:48

Very impressif clouds, good capture !

daninhoc (690) 2004-08-25 5:51

Did you really took it with an exposure time of 30s? The rain curtain look great adn the title fits good too :-)
And the rest looks good too...well done!

jemaflor (39759) 2004-08-25 6:17

Impressionante vue ... un nuage semblant envahir rapidement la ville et couvrir la ville à la manière d'une nuée ardente volcanique. Bravo pour cet instentané.

jhm (83378) 2004-08-25 6:21

Ja Don, er hoeft niet veel tijd tussen te zitten, tussen het mooie zonnige beeld en de zware regenwolk, maar de laatste is wel spectaculairder, prachtige diepte, goede compositie. Twee mooie beelden trouwens!

hdl (6737) 2004-08-25 6:31

Don Quichote de la Mancha op veroveringstocht in Bosnië? Het is wel een heel uitzonderlijke foto; het mag dan wel een veel voorkomend natuurverschijnsel zijn (zeker in België en Nederland ;-)), maar toch krijg je niet veel de kans om het op deze manier vast te leggen. Goed gezien en leuk gedaan.

Joker (312) 2004-08-25 6:58

Greatly captured view of a whole town taking a shower! Very good PoV which allowed to show the depth and a real scale of this scene. Colours and luminosity are nice and real too. Remarkable picture.

Rhiannon (1726) 2004-08-25 7:34

Great capture Don!
It look like a huge car wash :)
Impressive clouds, well composed I like the point of view, great colours.
You was lucky to capture this. I hope you didn't get to wet when the rain catched up with you.

richtersl (3544) 2004-08-25 7:43

A fascinating shot! The entire town looks as if it's about to be swallowed up by that storm. Well done!

krzbia (329) 2004-08-25 8:41

And this is something incredible. Well caought moment! It really looks like the city will be washed away!

TrippleDB (97) 2004-08-25 10:22

Nice catch of this wonder of nature. It's like an orkan! A real difference with that other picture. Nice sharpness. Good one, Don. Well done. :o)

burdallet (0) 2004-08-25 11:13

Very good excellent capture , wish the rain wash the city from bad souvenir and evidence of the recent ugly civil war

Michael_Gan (2772) 2004-08-25 12:16

Wow, great view. What surprises me is the bell-shape of the curtain. Probably caused by strong winds at low altitude? I can't think of any other explanation for this at the moment...

Hanssie (9133) 2004-08-25 12:57

Strange, but very nice to see such a rain-cloud ! The summer-edition is a nice one too.
You always must have a look in your mirror, you noticed ?

elihesamian (26091) 2004-08-26 6:13

OHHH!
What a great moment,...Congratulation,Don!

It's an EXCELLENT nature shot,Thanks for posting.
Yours,Mohammad

Jeppe (18623) 2004-08-26 15:56

wow - you surely got this one at the right moment Don - amazing change in weather - You did a very fine job here - thanks for sharing.

Letr (0) 2004-08-26 17:43

amazing capture don, almost looks like a floodgolf is approucing the town, very good compo and excellent capture of the moment !

cmartos (6086) 2004-08-26 19:01

You had a perfect timing on this one Don. This cloud is amazing, it seems to litteraly fall on the village so fast. Good POV, good angle and very well composed. A very fine catch! Thanks for sharing.

Oldtree (2457) 2004-08-27 10:55

Fantastic shot. Well seen. This photo looks very dramatic, even a bit scaring.

djenno (0) 2004-08-27 13:24

Awesome photo at the great moment! I love Travnik, such a neat little place. I hope you had time to go and see old fort above the city?

ChrisJ (70443) 2004-08-28 2:59

Very good decisive moment. The rain band is well seen & caught.

Capel (71) 2004-08-30 11:57

hello! exellent photograph, good work!

(I have one auwser account )

explomars (4230) 2004-08-31 13:35

Superbe image de ce nuage titanesque.Bien vu au bon moment.Bravo chevalier pas si errant que ça,à quand les moulins?Merci.Philippe.

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Kresimir (50) 2004-09-04 10:51

You keep surprising me wit the choice of travel places. I was at Vlasic twice, but never in the summer time. During the winter snow period, the place looks even beter.

jcazes (285) 2004-09-11 12:21

"Photo météo" magnifique!!

Catli (550) 2004-10-26 21:05

Very impressive shot, Don. Looks like a giant shower! I like the perspective and scale here which show the incredible size of this rain curtain.

Maru (0) 2004-12-19 10:42

Unique moment that you captured here. Great DOF and POV. I like the composition with the cloud with such rain in the middle of the valley. Well done.

tomaszmarcinek (1507) 2005-01-02 15:26

Two points for your reflex. Sometimes it is so hard to stop and if you manage to capture the mement you feel so proud of yourself. You should. Tom