A Storm Is Coming? Good.
I learned one thing from my one photography class professor who’s class I took in college about one and a half years ago. Legit one thing, and it wasn’t even photography mechanics. it was something he said and it made the entire class worth it in the long run I guess. He said something along the lines of “Bad weather creates a fleeting moment in nature. You’re the only person in the entire world that’s going to see that scene in that unique special setting that only bad weather provides for a beautiful photograph.”
I took it to heart, and honestly, it’s wound me up in some of the craziest and happiest memories of my life. When I have a photo shoot planned and I hear that a storm is rolling in, I honestly just get really excited. I’ve been lucky enough to find myself caught in a rainbow on a rain-less day in Iceland underneath the Skogafoss Waterfall. Tired enough to walk on the stars and watch the Neowise comet all through the night in a perfect reflection on the salt flats, and dirty enough to shoot a ballerina jumping about in the sand dunes during a golden yellow sandstorm sunset. Bad weather gave me all of these wonderful memories and moments I will never forget.
We can’t control the weather and that’s a good thing. Natures law of chaos is the only true constant that creates perfectly unique situations every second of every day, day in and day out. It does it without thinking. That’s why we have to keep up with nature and not the other way around. Bring on the chaos, it’s beautiful.
