My next photo in this little mini-series, I took in Osttirol two years ago (Summer 2011). An advantage continental Europe has over the UK is the weather. British weather is far less extreme and random as you would get in mainland Europe. In the UK when it rains, it just rains - there is nothing exactly special about it, other than it rains for a long period of time. On the continent, when it rains (especially in the summer) it gets a lot more interesting. There would be lightning and thunder and extremely dark clouds, and then after an hour or so it goes back to nice sunny weather. There was even a time, last summer, when there were hailstones about 4 cms thick - completely out of nowhere they appeared and then all of a sudden it became nice and sunny again.
Going back to the photo...
Two summers ago, there was a (European) summer thunderstorm while we were staying in Osttirol. The difference is that when one is high up in an alpine hut in the mountains the lightning, in particular, can be very intense. The morning after however we went up one of the alpine paths - through the forrest etc. The journey took longer than expected due to the amount of mushrooms found en route. However away from the forrest we managed to get an opening over the valley. The rain (the night before) was evaporating from the forrest creating a cloudy/misty atmosphere. As mentioned in my tweet earlier, it was one of these right place, right time moments. The results are as follows:
Not bad view...
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