Cold summer weather :(

[Joseph O'Neil]

I know the weather varies greatly form one location to another, but in my neck of the woods (Great Lakes region) it's been a very cool and wet summer. Between being extra busy at work, and a large number of rainy days (which always seem to come when I have a few spare hours ), I'm finding this is one of my worst years for getting out there and shooting.

Heck, I'm not even putting on much mileage with my digital SLR. Is the weather affecting anybody else this way? Not looking for a solution, just some commiseration.


joe

[Stephen Lewis]

Hi Joseph

Here in the UK we've had the opposite; clear blue skies and temperatures pushing 30 degrees. As I'm not a lover of clear blue skies and the harsh contrast, the only thing to do was to go out first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening to find the best light (and cooler temperatures).

The hot spell has broken here now, so we're back to the wonderfull variety of weather we're more used to, and which provides great inspiration. Get yourself a big brollie to cover the camera and go have fun!

[Bill_1856]

WHAT cold Summer weather?

[RichardRitter]

Yes cold and wet. June had 24 days of cloudy weather and 7 plus inches of rain more if you got hit by some of the bad storms that would drop 2 to 3 inches of rain. Sun would come out long enough to dry the lawn so it could be mowed and as the lawn mower was being put away it would start raining or go back to the wet heavy mist.

[Denis Pleic]

Same here (across the ocean, Europe, continental Croatia).

June was exceptionally rainy, in contrast to several recent years, when June was dry and VERY hot.... Heck, for the last few years we've had summer hot spells as early as May. This year, a total opposite: I'm joking with my wife that this year we have a real English weather - it rains at least once a day

Today it's been raining since morning (several hours now)....

At least we don't have to water the garden/backyard every day, so the water bill will definitely be much lower for June

Denis from Croatia

[jp]

Here in Maine, we've been setting records for rainfall and non-sunny days. People are experiencing seasonal affective disorder in the summer, when it's usually a winter phenomenon.

I had one day last month when I got to travel for work to an island and took my camera along because it was decent weather.

There was one other gray day when the sun wanted to come out. I went to the shore to get some photos because the it was good light for some B&W non-scenic photos.

That's it. I usually take about 50-100 color digital photos a week, and like to do a couple LF B&W images as well. It's just not happening.

I've been doing a bit of darkroom work and construction work. I finished repairing my new beseler cb7 enlarger that got damaged in shipping. I built a nice wood table for my two enlargers.

I have one scene in mind that I want to go back and photograph, but it requires a blue sky with cumulus clouds. We've only had one such day recently, but I was too busy at work to get away and get the photo. I'm in the ISP business, so we've had to contend with lots of lightning damage recently to customers and ours wireless and DSL equipment.

[Filmnut]

I'm in Toronto, Ontario, not too far from the OP,s location, and it has been cool and wet here as well. I'm not doing as much shooting either. Sometimes this weather is more condusive to photography, like lots of water for streams and waterfalls, but it has been harder to get out and actually do it!
Keith

[Walter Calahan]

I hear you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But at least the last week has been lovely.

[David Swinnard]

Vancouver (BC) area... we've only had a couple of days of rain since May 26. Very unusual. Many of us have really, really enjoyed the sunny, warm days. Sunny 16 days not gloomy 5.6 days!

It rained Monday, yesterday and is dark and rainy today - they say it will clear by the weekend, but we all know they're telling us what we want to hear. Many fear we've had our allotment of summer early this year and we're heading back into the eleven months of gloom and rain.

[Donald Miller]

106 and clear today. 112 and clear by Friday here in Phoenix. Seems that we have the opposite of your weather here.

Milano Italy was very pleasant (low 80's) when I left two weeks ago.