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This was taken on August 1 at Willow Lake in Prescott, Arizona. All day I had carried my umbrella with me, hiking through various parts of the dells at Watson Lake, never really needing it due to encountering only a few short-lived sprinkles. Finally, as the sun was about to set, I decided to change locations from Watson to Willow Lake, and left my umbrella in the car. The skies did not look to be threatening rain any further, so I had no worries. Until I was already en route to my shooting location and I started feeling sprinkles rapidly turning into more and more of a downpour. I had a very hard time getting any sort of shots without water drops on my lens, so this is one that had to do for that evening before I packed it up and headed back for the car, pretty saturated. The culprit was this isolated cloud toward the top of the frame that was looming over me and that had sprung a leak!
Gear: Nikon D810, 14-24mm @18mm, f/16, 0.4 second, ISO 64, tripod; missing gear: umbrella!