Flooded Field with Rainbow

As some of you may know we've been suffering floods down in the Thames Valley and we in Purley-On-Thames have been under a severe flood warning for the last week. After moving everything upstairs, getting the cars parked somewhere safe (thanks Mike) and putting the sandbags in place I wandered around trying to get some record shots. This is one that I managed to get yesterday when the flood "peaked" apparently. I am posting the image not for comment really but just to share because I like it . I know it still needs some processing (my main processing computer is in bits upstairs). This was done on an uncalibrated laptop using Lightroom (which I haven't used before). The technical details are:

- Camera: Canon EOS 1D Mk IIN
- Lens: Canon 17-40mm L @ 40mm
- Aperture: f16 +1/3
- Shutter Speed: 1/320s
- ISO: 640
- Metering: Evaluative
- Exposure Control: Aperture Priority
- Camera Support: Handheld
- RAW Conversion: Lightroom
- Post Processing: Some Lightroom processing

Thanks for looking
Adrian

Glad to hear that you still have your head above water!

Gary,

Thanks - Mind you if we had flooded I'd have floated away serenely like an enormous beached whale

We were a lot luckier than the people in Gloucestershire. My thoughts are with them at the moment. I hope it gets better for them quickly.

Adrian

Hope the water hasn't made it into your house Adrian - or are those hopes too late (seemingly not!!)

Buy a house on a hill next time - can't go wrong

Just makes me wonder how much wildlife has been affected in all these floods

Hi Adrian - glad you survived and we wheren't subjected to news stories of beached whales being rescued .

Nice shot of a water meadow

Hi Adrian, nice envio shot - very sorry to hear about your water-problems. Even over here the water has been incredible, my basement have been under water for now 3 weeks....

cheers, Helge

Hello Adrian
Hope you're beginning to dry out a little now. I suppose this is how the area would have looked before we started canalising the rivers and building on all the flood plains. Good image for the record books.
Best wishes
Phil

Thanks everyone - thankfully we didn't flood - some of our neighbours weren't so lucky
One thing I think this image does is show a very good reason why we shouldn't build on flood plains and why my next house is going to be a) somewhere dry and b) on the side of a hill (as Andy suggested )

Adrian

Very nice, contrast between sky and grass works really well, the rainbow is just icing on the cake - who's a smartie then!

looking forward to my promised as garaging fees -

Mike,

I try - As to the just name a place and time - as long as it's not a pub on/in the river

Adrian

Hi Adrian

Glad to hear it didn't quite reach you - nice image!

David

I like the shot, it gives a real feeling of gloomy, rainy skies and lots and lots of water everywhere.