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Taken a while back while driving through rural Scotland. I just noticed that everything went a little darker and decided to stop the car. Getting out i noticed this coming towards me. So after a few snaps i heard the crack of thunder and decided that it was time to head back. Sure enough a few minutes later my windscreen wipers on full speed could not handle the sheer amount of water falling, and i was driving at about 2 miles an hour all the way home. Great fun indeed.Related content
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yea, this storm will be very strong, i can see this with my mind, there whwre i live storms ar gathering in five to 10 minutes and a they can afford even 11 beauford degrees, even shiny weather can change into a horror in five minutes. and by the way really great shot
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ooof - yeha nature is pretty scary sometimes, especially how quickly it can change from good to bad. here in Scotland we can have 4 seasons in one day - sun-rain-snow-fog all in one day - very weird. thankyou my friend for your words and the favourite as well, really appriected. 
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Ooooh. I like this photo. The farm looks so tiny and helpless against the cumulonimbus onslaught
The rain in the far distance to the right is good. Scenes like this are beautiful from an armchair, mostly because they're so ominous when you're actually out in them. There's nothing quite like being on miles from home on foot, and feeling the first drop of rain against your face. Great Scottish outdoors, eh?
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heh..yes you have got to love the tempremental weather here! 4 seasons in one day it truly is. i agree, its definetly an armchair shot as the reality of it was a little daunting. never seen rain like it and the thunder and lightning was about 20 feet over my head. great sense of 'anything could happen' thankyou my friend, very kind of you to send these words my way.
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I really like the attention to detail in this shot. The amazing clouds are so full of texture that they're a true pleasure to look at. 
A suggestion.. did you try darkening this a little, to see how the clouds would look? It could work.
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thankyou my friend!, very glad that you like it...as for darkening, i think my monitor is very dark compared to other peoples..i really need to adjust my gamma or something...i could try to darken it although i'm not a huge fan of tampering with something too much, i could adjust the curves a touch, make it a little more moody but it would only be for my folders, i made a decision when i first started submitting shots that i would never resubmit unless i have to. It gives me the chance to go back and see how bad i actually was and how much i am improving...if any! thankyou my friend for the lovely comment, i'm away now to open up adobe and see that you are right.
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Could be your gamma, yup. Have you tried calibrating your monitor using Adobe Gamma? It comes with photoshop. 
Otherwise, it could be me. It's been a while since I calibrated. 
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ahhhh nup havent done that - just the normal gamma in control panel....but everytime i save the settings when i log back on its back to normal and i can't be arsed resetting it evrery time i log on...ho hum....maybe i should just get new eyes.
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Oh? It changes back every time?
Sounds to me like you need to use Adoba Gamma.
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Scottish landscape 
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haha, dutch flatness....wy don't you and some friends go into a field with shovels and start making your own mountain range! should only take a few days! also another good point would be the skiiing facility in winter!! BONUS!
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oow we dutchies tried that so many times, but then these angry farmers with wooden shoes come at us and drive us away 
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hahahaha....damn them all mate!
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thankyou very much my friend, lovely to hear from you. i hope all is well on this glorious sunday? i haven't got a hangover so its good this side!
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i want to be cashed by clouds
i want to feel the cold wind against my skin
i want to run from the rain
then run into it and feel it pour and drip and run
i want to see things like this
i want to go back home
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lovely....... you just wrote a feeling Sophia.....perfectly.
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Such a peaceful place
The grass & the sky looks awesome
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thankyou so very much my friend, yes rural Scotland is very peaceful...plenty of places to just sit and run your hands over the grass.
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I really want to go some place where its peaceful. I really need that "peace"!
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Great combination of colours, nice work. Good to see you submitting after a short absence.
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thankyou very much my friend, yeah took a few days off there after the madness...my fingers were sore and i needed a much required sleep fest.
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very pretty...i love how u captured the depth and 3d-ness of the clouds...and the smooth hills
very nice rural color compilation. wonderful shot-of course, as expected
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very pretty...i love how u captured the depth and 3d-ness of the clouds...and the smooth hills
very nice rural color compilation. wonderful shot-of course, as epected
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aww so kind. 
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I bet you 50 (squiggly mark for money sign) that they weren't....
By the way, Ben, you and your pictures rock my world.
Fabulous. I can always look to your deviations for wonderment and joy...and...
I feel like givin you a
(sorry for the randomly nonsensical comment but you deserve a 
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Whoa...what a shot... I can "feel" the pressure of those clouds as I sit here looking at this image....How lucky you were to have this experience
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ahh Newcastle is fabby...always guaranteed a great night out there for sure. i take it you had one or was it work related? i've been there a few times and always had fun. thankyou Kaz for this comment, too kind of you.
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this is just so provoking
i am a bit 
being under the influence and all
but when i come down
i hope to find equal beauty
in fact i know i will
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hahhah! under the influence eh? you lucky lucky person you!! i have a night out tomorow night..finally i can get to enjoy myself a bit after being "baw deep" in work.... 
cant wait.....thankyou Holly...i really hope that you do find what you are hoping for when you float back down.
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I'm not one for sky shots, but I do love storms. This is a great shot!
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i know exactly what you mean my friend, and i thankyou even more for liking this one.
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that is so completely beautiful. I love scenes like that.
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i was ion the same situation only i was in dover england at the time and i was canoeing and urmmmmm all i remember was it getting dark, me getting scared, me seeing this purple sheet of rain approach, me paddleing faster not knowing wat it was and being simply drenched with rain water 
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hahahhaa...what a great mental image... a crazy paddler in the middle of a rainstorm....excellent!!
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lol i was trippin out lmao
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Holy cow...(wouldnt it be odd to actually have a holy cow) anyway the colour of the groud caught my eye first, just the amazing depth of the green. I also like the clouds you captured and how 3d they look even on film. Awsome job again
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aw thankyou! for the extremely lovely words and the favourite! so glad that you like it enough to do that. really kind of you. also i love your signature! hilarious... i have used it in college....i hope you don't mind. 
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hehe no thats cool, it is a great one....
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scotland is incredibly gorgeous - you're a lucky butt you know that
very nice composition, i like seeing the vast sky and a little land at the bottom for refrence
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Rachel thankyou. yup i realize that i am very lucky, it only really dawned on me after i had lived away though..i found out that you have to take an outside look in sometimes to see that the grass is almost never greener on the other side. thankyou my friend, for the words.
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that sucka looks mean and pissed off.... great capture BIOOOOTCH
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lmao.......yup the big mama was packing that day that's for sure! nearly washed my goddam car away. and lil white freckly me away with it too! the only thing that saved me that day was my solid steel boots of armour that i wear for the imaginery medivel wars that randomly occur inside my head. thanks mate!
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you should hang out with my roomate... he hangs out with imaginary rappers, you guys would have so much fun together
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hahaha..man that sounds pretty interesting....we would be commited by the weekend for sure!
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