Mother Nature is not liking me today - Emmett Idaho Senior Photographer

Today was an extremely hot day. And I mean HOT!!! I think at one time I saw the weather temperature gauge thing that I have read 111 degrees. Now that's HOT! I knew that I had a Senior Photo Shoot scheduled in the early evening so I just kind of took a "chill day" to relax and drink nothing but iced tea all day...ok ok and some Diet Pepsi too. 6:30pm came around and the sun is shining through some clouds. No biggie, it's cooler so I'm happy and I like shooting under clouds (it's what photographers call "nature's soft box"). I meet-up with my client and her mother and we start shooting. All is good, everything is flowing greatly and then we gather up and get ready to go to the next location spot that I wanted to shoot her at. Then I see it.....the clouds all of the sudden got really dark and now lightning had started. Mother Nature played a trick on me today! First it was just plain hot, then it got cooler with light clouds in the sky, and now it's storming with thunder and lightning with huge rain drops. I had to call it a night for the photo shoot. No way am I taking shots with laying on the ground and my butt in the air holding my expensive camera that has a metal bracket on the top of it. Plus, my client really wanted some awesome water shots and I didn't want her in the water with it being cold outside and nasty cloudy (even if it didn't rain). So we rescheduled.

Hopefully Mother Nature will be kind to us during our next shoot.