One Photograph: Rainy Day

Watching the news coverage this week of the wet weather in Southern California reminded me of a particualry rainy February back in 2015. We had several weeks of big storms with lots of rain and wind. I was living out at the coast in Bodega Bay at that time and one Saturday morning, I woke to a downpour and a power outage. With the electricity out, I had to make my coffee that morning on a small camp stove, standing outside under an overhang.

All day long, I was really itching to go outside, get some exercise and take some pictures, but coastal storms are no fun for people or cameras, so I spent the day inside with my Nikon F2, some TMax 400 film and the fabulous 55mm f/28 Micro-Nikkor lens.

Standing at the window, hoping the storm would let up even for a short while, I snapped this photo that pretty much summed up the mood of the day.