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Central India, 1984.Whether this was the same storm we got rainbows after, I'm not sure. It might well have been. [link] and [link]
(Edit three years later: err, no it wasn't. Different time of year - look at the different state of the trees! And I know the dates, anyway - this one is six years older!)
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Very atmospheric, the combination of brilliant sunlight and the imminence of the heavy rains.
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the contrast between the dark sky and the earth gives a good result
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Thanks 
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Thank you
It was quite a good storm - lots of rain and thunder and lightning. But no damage. There were great rainbows afterwards - I don't know whether [link] was the same occasion or another one, it's certainly from the same spot (but a slightly different direction).
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nice contrast between the sky and the ground.. good capture!
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Great shot! One can feel the storm coming. Very successful photo!
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Thank you
I'm not sure whether it was after this storm, or a different one, that we got wonderful rainbows. The angle of the light is about right, so it could have been this one. [link] and [link]
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Such beautiful colors....love the tones of them!!!
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You are most welcome
My pleasure adding this to my fav gallery!!!
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Great picture... I love storms, and I'm going to be going to India to get my masters degree in Theology in Koda, Rajasthan
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This isn't in Rajasthan, and I don't think Rajasthan looks much like this area. But I don't really know Rajasthan, I've only been through a tiny corner of it in the train a few times.
Good luck with your masters!
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Ahh, I bet there's quite a bit of different terrains in India? Thanks for clarifying
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There certainly are. I've not travelled very widely in India, but just the bits I've seen include some fantastic variety - from endless flat plains, mostly very fertile but some places arid or salinized, to high dissected plateaux, hilly country, or fantastic mountains. I've not been to the south, the north east, Kashmir, or the coast (apart from a few days in Bombay, a very exceptional bit of India).
I think Rajasthan is mostly pretty dry. I've not spent time in any dry parts of India, just seen them from the train and the plane.
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Awesome, I can't wait to visit and go to school there. probably just under a year before I go there
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wow...it gives me the chills...brrrr.....awesome colors!
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Nice colors you have.
Can't explain why, but i like this picture,
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Thanks. Yes, it was VERY electrically charged. Shortly after I took that picture it went very dark, and we had the most amazing thunderstorm, which started well before the rain hit us. Then it rained very heavily for about an hour, then we had beautiful rainbows. I'm not sure whether that was the same occasion that I got my best rainbow pictures: [link] and [link] - it's certainly the same location, but I've been there a lot, and been in quite a few storms there.
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It was real all right! It didn't half rain later on. And thunder and lightning. Then gorgeous rainbows - possible the same day as [link] and [link] I don't remember.
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My goodness gracious! That looks pretty ominous! Do you recall what happened?
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Yup. It rained. Like no rain I'd ever seen before. And the most fantastic thunder and lightning, too. Then marvellous rainbows - they might have been the ones in [link] and [link] I'm not sure.
But fantastic as the rain was, that was just a winter shower, not monsoon rain.
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Of some interest, perhaps, is this odd fact. When we lived in the country town of Creswick (until last December), we didn't get the heavy rain, severe wind storms, lightning and thunder that other parts of Melbourne city and surrounding suburbs did. Reason? The Great Dividing Range near Creswick somehow diverted these occurrences. Now we live in an outer suburb of Melbourne, Werribee, which also misses out on the gale force winds and storms that Melbourne and suburbs get now and then. The reason? There's a small mountain called the You Yangs several miles from here and that apparently diverts the bad weather. Or am I a sort of god, perhaps, with unlimited powers?
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Unlimited powers? Probably not. But a good instinct for good choices of home location, maybe.
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I'll have to be honest. It was just sheer coincidence.
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