The Perfect Squall
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I caught a bus home from Shibuya today and by the time it dropped me in front of the Agricultural University, a neat little localised squall was bubbling away overhead. There’s a building in the university with a rooftop garden so I hightailed it up to the top to take some pictures.
It took a few peals of thunder for me to realise I was standing right under a lightning rod. It wasn’t a very electrical storm at all, so I didn’t worry too much about not being able to remember whether this was a safe or stupid place to be. (Would the rod conduct the ightning away from me, or would it attract the lightning which would then strike willy-nilly?) At any rate, I was not struck by lightning and made it home safely to upload these pictures.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.10.23 (Thu) • 21:46
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Posted by Ben 2003.10.23, 22:29
That first photo is so beautiful! The contrast between the building and the clods s vibrates. Thanks so much. I've been enjoying your photos via RSS for a while.
Posted by Aegir 2003.10.23, 22:44
Are you going to offer any of these pictures for sale? Or high res scans for download perhaps? I love that first pic, and those sunlight on plaster ones were great.
Posted by Johan Svensson 2003.10.24, 01:27
The first picture is indeed beautiful. I love the light conditions after a rain in the summer afternoon, when buildings appear to be lit from within.
Posted by Beaty 2003.10.24, 03:25
God, how I love clouds…wierdly co-incidental as I had to stop just before I went into work this morning to take a photo of the sky over our bay here in Scarborough (UK)…
I really didn't do it the justice that your superb photo has done…But I put it on my blog anyway.
…Again, the standard of photography doesn't compare - but cloudy skies are just so terrific!
Posted by Monkey 2003.10.24, 09:12
That picture is awesom.
Posted by 990000 2003.10.24, 09:53
nice one
Posted by mademoiselle a. 2003.10.26, 21:57
Wow…taken that this happen sometimes in Japan…throughout Asia, I see the traditional paintings of deities riding on clouds in another light. If you know what I mean. We don't see such clouds too often here in Europe.
Posted by jh 2003.10.27, 14:49
> I see the traditional paintings of deities riding on clouds
> in another light.What a lovely, perceptive thing to say. I didn't make the connection myself, but you're perfectly right.
We don't see too many squalls like this, but Japan does get its share of that south-east Asian monsoony type weather — not generally in October, though, so this was a bit of a surprise.
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