And the rains came.....

Holly Kempe

And the rains came.....

“And the rains came” Photography & Artwork
by Holly Kempe ©

Sony a100 camera
Photoshop CS4 artwork


“Rain showers my spirit
and waters my soul.”

Emily Logan Decons

After many months of drought here in far north Queensland it was so refreshing to receive a few downpours yesterday which helped to wash away the dust storms residue from plants and trees as well as from our souls…...



And the rains came was featured in the:

  1. Dimensions group – Oct 09
  2. Inspired Art group – Oct 09
  3. redbubble’s Featured Art and Photography – Oct 09

And the rains came..... belongs to the following groups:

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And the rains came..... by Holly Kempe
And the rains came..... by Holly Kempe
  • Lisa Wilson

    Lisa Wilson

    Holly this image is exceptional. Everything about it is so professionally finished, you are certainly brilliant on your photoshop to produce images like this. Cant fault anything about it.
    Makes me feel calm, enlightened and inspired. Go girl!

  • garts

    garts

    This is wonderful, love the treatment and great composition.

  • Chris Clark

    Chris Clark

    this is one hell of an outstanding and perfect piect of Art.

    Well done Holly and this looks fabulous in the frame

  • Anthony Mancuso

    Anthony Mancuso

    stunnig work Holly, beautiful tones and composition, well done!

  • Scott  d'Almeida

    Scott d'Almeida

    outstanding,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • RavenSoul

    RavenSoul

    Gorgeous!

  • canonman99

    canonman99

    wonderfully done,excellent edit,composition,color

  • Alf Caruana

    Alf Caruana

    impressive work

  • Heather  Rivet  IPA

    Heather Rivet...

    well done

  • mikebov

    mikebov

    superb

  • terezadelpilar

    terezadelpilar

    spectacular

  • lorilee

    lorilee

    Wonderful!!!!!

  • Phillip Weyers

    Phillip Weyers

    Beautiful result… and what a relief to have rain after a long drought.

  • richiedean

    richiedean

    So glad you’ve had some ’ liquid sunshine ’ Holly, seen the blazes in Queensland on TV ….......... !!!
    Expertly done …........... :))

  • Angie Muccillo

    Angie Muccillo

    Wow outstanding image Holly…exquisite lighting and colors :-)

  • Imber

    Imber

    Very interesting and creative – great work.

  • Deirdre Brocklebank

    Deirdre Brockl...

    Great shot and effects.

  • Scott  d'Almeida

    Scott d'Almeida

    amazing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • Charuhas  Images

    Charuhas Images

    Awesome work…

  • Gary Paakkonen

    Gary Paakkonen

    Beautiful!!!!

  • Laurie Search

    Laurie Search

    Wow, this is soooo beautiful!!

  • dlamb

    dlamb

    Absolutely beautiful. Especially like the darkened foreground, adds some nice depth.

  • Ruby Del Angel

    Ruby Del Angel

    outstanding!

  • ega39

    ega39

    This is beautiful, love the colors

  • Jane Brack

    Jane Brack

    Wow! Beautiful!!

  • Bob Wickham

    Bob Wickham

    Stunningly beautiful image, great computer work

  • Sharon Mau

    Sharon Mau

    It is very beautiful Holly, I love the vignette and wonderful deep light and colours. Rain, blessed rain, I am so happy you received some :))

  • Peacefulwarrior

    Peacefulwarrior

    wow stunning affects, beautifully done :))

  • Elana Bailey

    Elana Bailey

    Incredible lighting, processing, mood and capture. So glad that it rained for you Holly. Well done. An instant fave.

  • Antanas

    Antanas

    great work

  • Anji Johnston

    Anji Johnston

    This image has everything! Lighting, colour, atmosphere, meaning,.... exceptional

  • guitarman

    guitarman

    Great shot and wonderful colors.

  • Laura1957

    Laura1957

    Gorgeous!

  • Mike Edwards

    Mike Edwards

    Magic shot just beautiful.

  • Anne  McGinn

    Anne McGinn

    beautiful blessed rain – gorgeous

  • Yvonne Hoffmann

    Yvonne Hoffmann

    this i called art!!! great!!!

  • Albert Sellaman
  • Adamsapple

    Adamsapple

    A beautiful piece of art!

  • rjcolby

    rjcolby

    Great image Holly. Great depth and feel to this. Quote is perfect.

  • Louise Cooke

    Louise Cooke

    wow, what an amazing mood you’ve built here…fantastic!!

  • Nickie

    Nickie

    Wonderful capture …..........

  • Clare Colins

    Clare Colins

    lovely artwork!

  • Vanessawei

    Vanessawei

    This looks amazing! ;)

  • Tiffany Dryburgh

    Tiffany Dryburgh

    Wow, how stunning!

  • ElRobbo

    ElRobbo

    This is a tremendous piece, Holly!
    A real ripper!
    Top stuff!

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    this is so easy to love!

  • Vicki Ferrari

    Vicki Ferrari

    Fantastic image Holly!!! Love this! Feel like I could step into this and soak up the essence that it has created for me! Love it! I can smell and feel this sunshower!! And the saying by Emily Logan Decons is so appropriate!!

  • tinnieopener

    tinnieopener

    A Fave for me Holly:o)

  • Xandru

    Xandru

    A shower is always welcome, even more so when anticipating a hot summer:-))
    This is a STUNNING image! Well done Holly.

  • MagpieMagic

    MagpieMagic

    Gorgeous colours and a lovely image.

  • amko

    amko

    Wow, I can just smell the rain and dust, wonderful image and treatment! :))

  • MartineDF

    MartineDF

    It’s beautiful, love your artwork. Well captured and edited.

  • Elizabeth McPhee

    Elizabeth McPhee

    Such beautiful colours and light.

  • Mark Richards

    Mark Richards

    absolutely beautiful, very eye catching and a fine art work Holly!

  • Artbenco

    Artbenco

    This is great the colours are well captured, it really tells a story – well done

  • Jason Asher

    Jason Asher

    Just perfect treatment Holly, the tree really pokes out at you, not flat at all. Nice work.

  • DottieDees

    DottieDees

    Gorgeous work!

  • PBWright

    PBWright

    That is an abolutely beautiful image!

  • redtree

    redtree

    Fan bloody tastic.

  • Hena Tayeb

    Hena Tayeb

    gorgeous image

  • Tara  Turner

    Tara Turner

    stunning!

  • Isa Rodriguez

    Isa Rodriguez

    sensational. stunning.. beautiful!!!!!!!

  • Erhan OZBIYIK

    Erhan OZBIYIK

    Perfect !!!!

  • Alana Ranney

    Alana Ranney

    Well done!! Stunning!

  • WayneBonney

    WayneBonney

    Just a fabulous stunning piece of artwork Holly!

  • maremarie

    maremarie

    This is indeed fabulous! :) Amazing piece of art :)))))))

  • Donna M. Condida

    Donna M. Condida

    This is gorgeous Holly!!

  • tett

    tett

    Dramatic image.

  • Beata Belanszky Demko

    Beata Belanszk...

    Wonderful lights, wonderful landscape, great capture!

  • Nikola Wilson
  • Jamie  Druitt

    Jamie Druitt

    Brilliant Holly, Love the colours in that sky and the tree.

  • Jayme Rutherford
  • Helen Lewis

    Helen Lewis

    Love it – stunning shot!

  • silvercircles

    silvercircles

    A wonderful landscape!!

  • Sharon Mau
  • raindancerwoman

    raindancerwoman

    love it :)

  • Lozzie5243

    Lozzie5243

    Oh to be in the right place at the right time to capture a sensational photograph like this. I’m truly envious. Brilliantly done…..

  • Anna Shaw

    Anna Shaw

    What a wonderful image. So full of mood.
    xx

  • GemmaWiseman

    GemmaWiseman

    So very stunning! Colours contrast so dramatically and the focus on the one small tree in the middle of it all creates an enchanting sense of uniqueness!

  • Chris Fawkes

    Chris Fawkes

    Wonderful

  • Aimelle

    Aimelle

    such awesome tones and light ! beautiful photograph

  • JKKimball

    JKKimball

    so beautiful Holly!

  • palegirl

    palegirl

    A great picture given some great pizzazzzz – straight to favs.

  • Jacob Routzahn

    Jacob Routzahn

    Very beautiful lighting and nice bordering too. great shot!

  • walela

    walela

    Beautiful!

  • artisandelimage

    artisandelimage


    bravo !
    my best, francis.

    (did you vote in this challenge ???)

  • vampvamp

    vampvamp

    fantastic, love it!

  • Harry H Hicklin

    Harry H Hicklin

    Almost unearthly it’s so good.
    You’re setting the bar awfully high…

  • Edge-of-dreams

    Edge-of-dreams

    Beautiful!

  • Veikko  Suikkanen

    Veikko Suikkanen

    Fantastic work Holly!!!

  • michalfanta

    michalfanta

    I really like the processing!

  • Robin D. Overacre

    Robin D. Overacre

    very nice

  • Tracey Mac

    Tracey Mac

    OMG Holly!!! This is your finest to date, how absolutely stunning, the tones are magical and Number 1 on most popular of 7 days is a fantastic effort, and no wonder, it’s the BEST image in there!! xx

  • rodeorose

    rodeorose

    Wonderful!

  • Kasia-D

    Kasia-D

    Wow, what contrasts! Amazing scene to experience – and then to capture too!

  • Joanne  Bradley

    Joanne Bradley

    The contrast of colors and light is exceptional! No wonder you are in the #1 spot on the RB popular page! :-)

  • Kye Vincent

    Kye Vincent

    Brilliant

  • Lois  Bryan

    Lois Bryan about 1 month ago

    magnificent composition … color … and that glorious rain!!!

  • Maria Masse

    Maria Masse about 1 month ago

    Stunning, no other words to really express how magnificent this is!

  • Lee-Anne Rafferty-Evans

    Lee-Anne Raffe... about 1 month ago

    very nice PP

  • Munggo

    Munggo about 1 month ago

    Superb

  • Martie Venter

    Martie Venter about 1 month ago

    This is absolutely stunning, love the post-processing! I have the same camera as you do – you are certainly doing outstanding work with it, thanks for the inspiration!

  • stephenknowles

    stephenknowles about 1 month ago

    stunning, top shot Holly

  • Phineous   Cassidy

    Phineous Cas... 29 days ago

    cool as great fota

  • Luca Renoldi

    Luca Renoldi 29 days ago

    superb work

  • emdesigns

    emdesigns 29 days ago

    Great work, love the composition.

  • jacqleen

    jacqleen 28 days ago

    THIS is JUST FANTASTIC…....your tones and comp is just SUPERB…..but what I LOVEEEEEEEE about this,....is the feeling that i get when i look at it !!! Just STUNNING!

  • martinilogic

    martinilogic 28 days ago

    This is just absolutely fantastic…... WOW!!!!!

  • Ian Kahler

    Ian Kahler 28 days ago

    outstanding work!!

  • Gaz Gazmajster

    Gaz Gazmajster 28 days ago

    Just beautiful !!! Great work!

  • Ben Luck

    Ben Luck 28 days ago

    This is stunning. Beautiful mood, fantastic colours. Wow. Well done :)

  • Alan Watt

    Alan Watt 27 days ago

    I really like this.
    Its simple and has so much going on….if that makes sence?

  • Lawrence Crisostomo

    Lawrence Criso... 27 days ago

    its a very artistic piece of work!

  • targa

    targa 26 days ago

    1 gorgeous..
    #2 beautiful..
    #3 perfecto..

  • vaquera

    vaquera 25 days ago

    Wow, Stunning !

  • Barbara  Brown

    Barbara Brown 23 days ago

    Great capture Holly!

  • Clare Colins

    Clare Colins 20 days ago

    Love it…great image, perfect composition!

  • Gerardo Sánchez

    Gerardo Sánchez 20 days ago

    Nice Shot! Beautiful colors! Very well done!

  • J O'Neal

    J O'Neal 19 days ago

    Beautiful colors and lighting. This is a great image!

  • hsien-ku

    hsien-ku 18 days ago

    very beautiful work

  • Erika Gouws

    Erika Gouws 18 days ago

    Stunning!

  • MartineDF

    MartineDF 18 days ago

    beautiful work, i love it! well done!

  • Trish Woodford

    Trish Woodford 18 days ago

    Such a gorgeous image, love the single tree composition and the layers and richness of colour are stunning. Really beautiful :))

  • Alf Caruana

    Alf Caruana 18 days ago

    beautiful work, love the golden tones

  • Liam Byrne

    Liam Byrne 17 days ago

    Fantastic composition, great postwork!

  • Michael E. Frye

    Michael E. Frye 16 days ago

    Magnificent image. Incredible!

  • JennyDean

    JennyDean 15 days ago

    fantastico Holly! how did I miss this one?????

  • halina123

    halina123 15 days ago

    Love it ,Beautiful shot

  • Daz Zammit

    Daz Zammit 15 days ago

    Looks like a scene from ‘What Dreams May Come’

  • Paul Gibbons

    Paul Gibbons 15 days ago

    Outstanding work Holly, the light is fabulous, great capture

  • JennyMac

    JennyMac 15 days ago

    Wow, wow, wow… really outstanding work! : ))

  • stutheartist

    stutheartist 15 days ago

    This is a beautiful image

  • Elana Bailey

    Elana Bailey 13 days ago

    Such drama and incredible lighting. Well done indeed. An instant fave.

  • Mary Campbell

    Mary Campbell 13 days ago

    You really captured the light of the storm well, the dark approaching clouds vs the light. Nice job.

  • Ralph Angelillo

    Ralph Angelillo 13 days ago

    Superb image, Holly !

  • gerrycyr

    gerrycyr 11 days ago

    ouitstanding image

  • Darya Deriglazova

    Darya Deriglazova 10 days ago

    sensationally!♥

  • Kayleigh Evans

    Kayleigh Evans 10 days ago

    This is gorgeous! <3>

  • halina123

    halina123 2 days ago

    Beautiful

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