Last week I mentioned the Utopian ideals that are the basis of so much of photography. Perhaps that's why we see so much photography capturing idealized weather. A lovely snowfall, instead of the remnants left is the snow melts; the distant cloud burst rather than that drippy rain that soaks us through and through; thin fog that allows us to see a distant tree, rather than that socked in fog that obliterates everything beyond 5 feet.