“When Rain Falls”.  Covered skies. Chances of isolated showers.  Probability of precipitation.  Rain.  Rain, by its presence or its absence, is perhaps the one natural element that most informs what the people of  Vancouver talk about, do or feel, from day to day. “When Rain Falls” is a photographic essay that explores the transformative, esthetic and expressive qualities of this transitory substance.
 
At a visual level,  rain has the power to both provide and take away.  It brings forth a number of scenic layers. 
One is a layer of greyness that permeates and even clouds details in any scene that it affects.  Another is a layer of equalizing blurriness that is perhaps most obvious when looking through car windshields or other windows. As it blurs, a wash of rain also takes away a certain degree of clarity while retaining a degree of distorting translucence.  On the ground, rain can wash away the opacity of things.  Wet surfaces, roads, puddles, become reflective, almost transparent.  

It is these transformative qualities that specifically interest me as expressive elements of a photographic palette. 
The overall results are a canvass of rain punctuated with  existential brush strokes.