Dramatic pictures of undramatic places


While visiting Maryland at Christmas, I took some pictures around my sister's house after a rain in the late afternoon. There was this fantastic rainbow right over the farm where she works, which is right across the road from her house. The rainbow pics came out OK (the farm owners certainly loved them and used one for an advertisement), but the really weirdly dramatic one is the pic of mucky-wet cornfield right behind the house. When the light is weird around those winter evenings, things can look totally alien. I included a pic of the house next door (with a bit of rainbow) just to show how utterly different lighting can be in two pics taken at the same place and time. Well, and because I love the countryside there even in winter (it's very near to where I grew up). The girl in the rainbow-pic is one of my neices. We were all going photo-crazy - it really was a beautiful afternoon moment.  ¶ 7:34 PM