Of Drips and Drops
Recently I was talking to an artist friend of mine about the monsoon season. Specifically they asked me "what kind of images can you take on a rainy day?" As I love the rains for all the photographic gifts they provide, the colours, textures, the drama and renewal of the season, I thought that their question was a good excuse to post a few images of all the fun one can have during this time of year.
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Summer thunderstorm
Runoff flows over our feet
Surprisingly warm”
— Calvin Olsen
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Bill Watterson
“I hear leaves drinking rain;
I hear rich leaves on top
Giving the poor beneath
Drop after drop;
'Tis a sweet noise to hear
These green leaves drinking near.
And when the Sun comes out,
After this Rain shall stop,
A wondrous Light will fill
Each dark, round drop;
I hope the Sun shines bright;
'Twill be a lovely sight.”
— William Henry Davies
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
— Lucretius
“In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning”
— Kobayashi Issa
“The rain begins with a single drop.”
— Manal al-Sharif
“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”
— e. e. cummings
“Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.”
— Langston Hughes
I hope you enjoyed some of these images and maybe feel inspired to go out and make some images of your own in the rains.
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Julian Ray
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