A Strange Weather Day in Upstate New York

It's January 10th but the weather is more like April or May. We broke a temperature record with 55 degrees this afternoon and there were alternating periods of rain and sun with thunder and lightning and rainbows thrown in.

During one of the sunny periods I grabbed some gear to shoot rain drops on branches and some other subjects. I hand held the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens with Canon's 500D closeup lens attached. You don't normally see moss like this in January and the Burdock's are far less pleasant when they're stuck in your dog's fur.

I stopped in the police parking lot in Cohoes, New York on my way home to shoot this rainbow. This is a five image HDR composite.