Out yet again scouting for a new location for sunset while out working at Leinster over summer. I had just been given a list of locations from a fellow photographer. I was feeling disheartened as it was close to the end of my contract and there seemed to be little chance of any cloud this evening. I meandered through a couple of the streets of the town heading towards the back having a look while my work clothes were in the communal laundry doing their thing.

I remember it being dry and dusty when I found the track leading into the bush. About halfway down, I felt a sharp drop in temperature which was soon followed by an increase in humidity. A storm was rolling in, and fast. I knew it wasn’t in front of me so I turned around and was faced with a wall of red. I took this shot just before the heavens started to open up. Subsequent photos have raindrops all across the images.

In the back of my mind while taking the photo, I was thinking that I had only just upgraded to the Nikon D90 and that it wasn’t quite what I had in mind when it came to testing out its capabilities.

This was yet another photo shoot that ended with a fast packing up of gear and a run back to camp.