I like rain. I spend many months of my life without rain, so that when I travel to other places in the world, I don’t mind having to juggle my umbrella and my camera and my bag. I like how landscapes, and cityscapes, and streetscapes, such as the one above, change with addition of moisture, from dry and dusty to wet and moist.

Water, and gray skies, also tend to bring out the colors that are sometimes hidden within at otherwise ordinary dry moments.

I can’t remember exactly where in Prague I was at the moment I took this photograph. I have a series of photographs of bits of street, cobblestones with street markings and cobblestones with trolley tracks cutting through them in sweeping arcs.

My favorite part of this photograph is the blue paint. It marks the stones but not the filling between the stones.

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