Submitter's name:	Gary Edwards
Title:	Western Pacific Shower
Gear used:	OM-4T + Zuiko 50/1.4 SC + filter of unknown character provided by Boeing
Diaphragm:	f/8
Shutter speed:	Not recorded
Film used:	Provia 100F
Technical information:	Straightforward shot. Single spot meter reading on a likely Zone V cloud tone. Scanned, then leveled; slight tonal expansion (black end, all RGB channels) and darkening in Photoshop.
Subject information:	Westbound, somewhere between Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, flight level 330, looking north. This Texas boy has never seen so much water.
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Comment left by: Brian Swale (bj@caverock.net.nz)

Great shot. Great tonal range and range of colour intensity, not forgetting good scanning. Quite a moment in the life of that storm.

Comment left by: Marten Beels (mbeels@yahoo.com)

Wow, this is quite an impressive shot. Very dramatic. I really like how you can see the progression of this rain storm, the left side is blue sky and sun reflecting off of puffy white cumulus clouds, and the right is dark, grey, and definitely pouring!

Comment left by: Chuck Norcutt (chucknorcutt@attbi.com)

Wow! Pretty dramatic.

Comment left by: bbbean (bbbean@beancotton.com)

I assume an airplane was involved in this shot - how did you get around window problems?

Comment left by: KenN (no e-mail specified)

Yowza. I like it!

Comment left by: photographer (no e-mail specified)

Biggest part was that it was a nearly new B737-800 with very clean glazing. Second, I shot with the window in shade to reduce flare.

Comment left by: photographer (no e-mail specified)

I forgot to include the note that the lens is a Silver Nose, for Ken's benefit.

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