09/09/2026
๐ฆ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป.
Sometimes you just have to stand in the rain and trust that something better is happening on the other side.
I generally prefer photographing with the sun somewhere behind me. On this particular evening in Garden of the Gods, that meant standing in the rain while hoping there was a little sunshine waiting behind the storm.
There was.
As the rain moved through, sunlight broke underneath the clouds and lit the main rock formations while the sky behind them remained dark. Then came the rainbow.
I stuck around after the rainbow disappeared, too. The light became much quieter, but those moody skies were too good to leave behind.
Both of these photographs are panoramas made from multiple individual frames stitched together. I could certainly shoot a single wide image and crop it into a panoramic shape, but I prefer building them this way. More resolution, more detail, and a much larger finished image.
Same place. Same evening. Completely different moods.
And a pretty good reminder that sometimes the best thing a landscape photographer can do is get wet and stay put.
These are exactly the kinds of Colorado moments I love putting into my annual Landscape Photography Calendar. Voting for the 2027 Calendar is still open, and we're getting very close to the final selections on September 14. Link in comments ๐
If you haven't voted yet, now's the time. And if you already have, well... nobody said you could only vote once. ๐
~ Faz ๐
