The forecast for the last few days has been "chance of showers". The reality has been cloudy skies, a humid atmosphere, and an occasional tinkle of water from the sky (which only boosted the humidity further) along with some uncomfortably warm temperatures away from the coast.

Today's forecast was for "Showers", and verily did it bucket down in the early morning. However by lunch time there were huge gaps in the cloud which allowed most of the morning rain to evaporate, making the humidity even worse, and helping make the direct sun feel rather like a microwave when it hit you.

It hadn't rained for the rest of the day, which pretty much scuppered my plans for a shot based on the "showers" theme this afternoon. (Which, in the absence of the day having any other particular theme aside from a fairly unproductive grind at work, was all I could come up with.) So it fell to this, my backup shot that I took at lunch time showing a bench being reflected in one of the few puddles which hadn't boiled off from the morning downpour.

When I looked at it I found it rather devoid of vibrancy, so I thought that I may as well go the whole hog and try out a sepia effect with a slight vignette.

(On a dimly related point, I just noticed that my 40D (now into the 5000's) has passed my old 300D (not quite at 5000) in the number of shots taken. I think that this is more a reflection of how I underutilised the 300D in the early days than anything else.)