What would you do when you are on vacation 3 states away from home, you get sick and a storm comes up just as you get to a great location for photography?  Well here's what Jeri Childs did.

These images were gathered on a trip I took in early spring several years back. It is clearly an indication that since I am from Washington<vbg> I have learned not to let a little rain "dampen" my adventures. I had stopped to see some friends in Salt Lake City and decided to continue South with no real itinerary. Which is very often how I travel letting the trip unfold as it may. When I found myself not too far from Bryce I decided to check it out.

I arrived very late in the day and was feeling a little sniffle so I decided to treat myself to a motel  and a meal in this little diner (rather than sleep in my truck). When I told the waitress how I was feeling she said "I’ve got just the thing for you and she brought me a bowl of this wonderful vegetable soup.

In the morning I felt 100% better, was up before sunrise and headed into Bryce.

By the time I had scouted several locations for shooting it had begun to rain. At first it was intermittent and then it began to pour and to blow as well.

There was a very stormy looking sky, black clouds with bright spots of sunshine.

I managed to use the ever faithful garbage bag and at a couple different locations gather some images.

It really was spectacular what the sky and the light was doing with the already incredible colors there and the shapes as well.

Soon I came to my senses and realized that I was probably a reasonably perfect lightening rod <bg> and that perhaps it was time head for cover.

I did stay and watch the storm for awhile longer but the rain became relentless. Would really like to return to Bryce!

Jeri Childs

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I had received these images a couple weeks ago as a normal upload. After looking at them, I emailed and asked Jeri if she would give us the story behind them. I tried to match these images with her reply email story. It made the page composition a little ragged, but I think it gets the idea across. 

Folks, maybe we all should pray for rain instead of fair weather when we go out on our shoots?
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