Absolutely Beautiful, Nothing relaxes and calms me like a rainstorm.

Hey they’re beautiful photos, thanks for sharing them. I love the macro ones best, everything is just a different world up close.

rain is about the relationship to nature. nature is beautiful :)

stunning collection ^^

Terrific color!

Woah, those are amazing! The last one makes you go aww.

Very good! On in an instant classic

Wow is all I can say… beautiful and inspiring

Wow…absolutely amazing pics…

Classic Collection. Black & White images are making more impressions

This is an amazing batch, I especially love the last one.

superb collection. makes me admire to be a better photographer.

beautiful shots! i loved the last one too - the one with the rain bucketing out of the sky into the ocean in just one part was pretty impressive too - and the reflection in the puddle,all were pretty amazing

i love them all, totally mind blowing collection

Wow…absolutely amazing pics…

Woow.. Its raining !

Now I remember an Indian photographer ‘Victor George’. Who killed by rain while shooting an accident

Wow really nice collection…. thnx SM 4 this stunning list

An excellent collection of photos! I really love the last one as well - such an amazing scene. (I’m also a particular fan of 6, 13, 19, and 22. ^^)

However, I have to ask - why did a photo of the Aurora Borealis make it into “Rain Photography”? (The ground is wet, sure. But I’m guessing that’s more to do with the fact that it looks like tide pools!)

All around though, a really inspirational photo set! Thanks for sharing these with us!

Man oh Man - what a way to wake up on a Monday! Lovely theme - fantastic pictures. Another photographer who is very comfortable in the skin is Link [www.stevemccurry.com] - His monsoon collection is to die for.

Keep on Keepin!

Gill.

Great photos!

Very nice collection. This is my rain favorite: Link [www.flickr.com]

great collection!
images are blissful and wretched at the same time.

I like the one with the photographer standing in the lake most. It is an amazing example of photographic skills. On my own blog I recommend this rain photo: Link [shun.aminus3.com]

Beautiful! :)

The photographer in the lake is the best one for me!

Number 6 - its my Photo!

You should ask my permission to addition of my photo ….

I like this one too:

Link [www.flickr.com]

really awesome!!!

Nice collection of stolen images. No attempt to credit the original photogs. Wanker.

really awesome..simply superbbb

Great photographs! Rain photography is a very interesting and oft neglected niche.

Sweet

Seriously beautiful collection!

Wow, those are truly some awesome photos!

Jiff
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Simply beautiful.

Very nice collection. Thansks.
Site: Link [www.desigart.com]

Very nice collection.
Link [www.desigart.com]
Thanks

These photos are amazing!

I think I found my new desktop image :)

cheap sentimental bullshit photography - yawn.

Wow, really great pictures. I have to try shooting in the rain, too!

Beautiful collection.
Need some for my desktop.
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They are beautiful but only a few actually had rain in them. I was hoping for more photographs involving rain and not just photographs of clouds and waterdrops. They are really beautiful though!

great images.although some of them looks like not raining.

We are sick of rain here in UK but these pictures are very pretty!

Hey one of my photos is here, sweet.

Excellent pictures

I’m from the UK. Can we have some sunshine pics please.

Dreamer-Soul, it would be posible to have that nice piece of work you have made, in hi resolution?

Incredible shots! i fell in love with the first shot <3
thank you so much for sharing !

Wonderful! Very, very, very beautiful!

Amazing pictures, I love especially the one with the girl in the water taking a photo under an umbrella and her red raincoat. The one with the 3 paper boats is great too. A very nice collection, as usual!

very nice.. dreamy even. thx for the inspiration

so beautiful
tanks
Very nice collection.

Love the photos again!
Thanks for these!

Beautiful!!!!

really nice pics and also great end of the post with Smashing kiss.

amazing shots

Extremely shallow / useless article. C’mon SM, you guys always bring it? WTF is this?!

hey !! you use one of my pictures without permission. It is a violation of the copiright. You steal my picture, you are fucking thieves.

Wow. Those are all amazing. Such gorgeous shots!

Wow. Inspiring Link [www.ps46.net]

Those pictures are so beautiful….

Thank you 4 the Post

XOXO

3rd from the last is my photo. the author didn’t take permission before posting it here.

3rd from the last is my photo, taken from my flickr album. The author didn’t ask for my permission before posting it here.

I could take better pictures than these ;-)

Well, maybe. If I could take pictures at all….

These are quite nice!

Maybe we should ask everyone if we could post stuff before it goes on Digg, too.

It is always a good idea to ask permission to post other people’s work before you go ahead and post them up somewhere else. I don’t mind my photo being up here, but considering it is a protected photo (protected by creative commons license), you have gone and copied the photo and hosted it on your own server. Where is the professionalism?? Do you not practice what you preach?? Link [tinyurl.com]

I appreciate the linkback, but some credit to go alongside my photo would also be nice. Please.

enjoyable

My photograph Blue Rain has been used without my permission, this image is subject to my copyright. I am still waiting for a reply to my e-mail requesting royalties or the image removed. The link to pixdaus who stole the image have now removed it. All my photographs are for sale in my Redbubble portfolio, user name Paul Gibbons (spottydog06 ).

An amazing collection indeed. However, after reading some of the posts here about how some of the photographers’ work has been used without permission it kind of raised a bit my eyebrows. Whilst smashing magazine is showing us a collection of some of the best work, it is unfair on the artists / photographers that they are not credited for their work. I can only imagine the hours it takes and the amount of photos one has to take before coming up with one of the photos in this collection. So my advice is - Smashing Magazine: thanks for the photos and the superb collections but please credit the photographers, Photographers / Artists: Continue to inspire us and keep up the good work !

Link [www.dotnetmushroom.com]

Thumbs up for most of the images with the people in it. Thumbs down on the high saturation - high contrast - HDR images. In ten years that style is going to look like sequined bell bottoms to us.

Link [www.erichmorton.com]

Speaking about rain photography, there is also this ;) :
Link [en.wikipedia.org](1977_album)

great collection!

Smashing staff: These are great photos, but it’s clear the photographers are upset that they haven’t been credited. Instead of saying ” you’ll do it in the future,” why not credit those whose work is in this post? Let it start here…

Since you’re typically on the ball with crediting designers, I’m a bit surprised about this one.

These are really good ! Very inspirational.

Link [www.flickr.com]

Link [www.theecommercesolution.com]

I love those shots! Link [www.pinoyclicks.net] kindly take a look at it also. Thanks

Here’s mine, shot fr Divide project, it’s quite different :

Link [www.monsieurlam.com]

so beautiful~

very inspiring.. thank you :)

It is really fantastic

Really beautiful photos.

kheyli ghashang hastan cool:D

My rain shots!
Link [www.flickr.com]
Link [www.flickr.com]
Link [www.flickr.com]

have a look!

Maravillosa colección.

nice shot…a few photos are awesome…is it realy real picture without manipulated effect? or these pictures had remanipulated before showoff :D

UN PLACER PARA LOS HOJOS ESTA COLECCION DE FOTOGRAFIAS

Hi awesome photographs love what you have done, its a great inspiration for my own work

Hi awesome photographs love what you have done, its a great inspiration for my own work…

Nicee!!! I love this post absolutely beautiful photographs.

Dwayne.D.C.Tucker II
Nassau, Bahamas

wonderful photos. I love rainy days! definitely inspirational too.

beautiful! and inspiring.

These are all wery excellent and pretty. at least one of them always remember us GOD`s power.

hi this was great proffessional inspiring . tnx a lot .

So really nice

wonderfoul

Nature is Wonderfoul

fantastic!

Son increibles.

Outstanding!
I need the umbrella option to hang out in the rain w/camera.
Then there are the ones where color is added to a single object in a black & white image, very cool.

me gustaron mucho estas fotos, hay que felicitar al autor de ellas DIOS.-

Hi webmaster!

it’s Tim Heraud, not Tim Hearud.

Awesome collection.

That Was Fantastic!

when it ranis the angels are playing with water….
so fantastic!

iuyhiuyui

This is quite an impressive collection.

Great way to start the day :)

Thanks.

Fantastic
zibaaaaaaaaaa

Beautiful. Winter is also a great time to shoot.

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Great photos, especially like the aireal one with the rainbow. Here is a 360 panorama of a thunderstorm over Perth from Link [www.panoramicearth.com] in which Perth has vanished beneath the storm clouds. And another from Link [www.panoramicearth.com] in Western Australia.

love the image…kiss….and her passion and her ecstacy in rain

your article uses “beautiful” in the article title, but the link uses “brilliant”.
nice one.

WOW!.. Beautiful indeed….
any ideas where to find tutorials to do photo effects or enhance photos like these guys have done?

Beautiful pictures, really. Give credit where credit is due. These artists have worked hard to show us things we may never have seen if not for thier eye for the special times in life. Keep up the great examples of these artists work, and credit them when you show their work. I would think that if someone liked a photo enough to want a copy they could then continue on to the artist website and purchase the item. This site is giving them free advertising of their work, giving us all the chance to see and admire what they can do. I read some of these photos are for sale at another website. ‘Well there you go just add a link to the website where they can be purchased and everyone should be happy. I think there has been some great work done here so take advantge of the situation and work it out between all the involved parties. It would be a shame if this causes some work not to shown.

superb collections

awesome pics..esp Dreamer Soul and Agnieszka Borkowska.

Another great compilation……

Link [www.wayfaringwanderer.com]

Instead of “crediting photographers” in the future, why don’t you ask their permission in the future? As an editorial team, and I presume that Vailancio Rodrigues is a writer of some degree, would you not consider it plagiarism if someone just took your work, without your permission and then made money off of your work through advertising on their site? If a photographer contacts you respectfully requesting their creative property be removed, then you are legally required to do so.

Greatest Hits Beautiful Pictures

great photography. This one’s nice too Link [www.flickr.com]

Wow! You know, these really are amazing.. :o

It makes me remember one day in a beutiful place with an amazing guy.

Thats wat i call photography .. Stunning collection ..