It says something about my life (or should I say something about me) that it took me nearly a month to process just some of the images and video clips that I captured around New Year's Day when it rained in Dubai.

Rain is not a frequent phenomenon in this part of the world. In fact, this was the first rain we'd had in about 20 months, so it was extra special that the rain came over a long weekend (when we were transitioning from a Friday/ Saturday weekend to a Saturday/ Sunday weekend from the New Year and the 1st of January was gloriously a Saturday) and I could sit cozily in my apartment and stare out at it.

I had, over the months past, envisioned the ideal shots I'd get and the video clips that I'd shoot when the rains and thunderstorms came back to Dubai. In the end, as it is always in the way of these things, when the rain finally arrived, I was mostly just scrambling with my camera settings- finding I had forgotten completely how to set a timelapse or twiddling around with my tripod to find I'd cut an interesting feature entirely out of the frame or in one extreme instance, poking my eye with the camera lens when trying to fit the lens into the camera body half asleep at 5am.

Then once I got the shots, whether these were the shots I wanted or not, I just moved on to other things. Life, work, coursework, stuff and before I knew it, it was almost the end of January.

But here you go- better late than never.

Lightning dancing over the buildings
More lightning streaking over Dubai Marina
There was lightning on the one side and a super rosy glow on the other- I wonder what caused this phenomenon

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