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Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 50mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — image data
Angry Cloud
over Kyoto, Japan

As I posted the other day in “Pregnant Cloud Over Kyoto”, we've gotten quite a bit of locally-intense afternoon thunderstorms this summer. I'm not normally here in the summer, so this has come as quite the surprise to me, a pleasing one having grown up enjoying intense thunderstorms in Ohio's hot and humid summers.

京都の夏、午後は雷雨が多いですね。好き。

I took these pictures two days before the “pregnant cloud” shot, but I was working intently on my latest Lightroom plugin so didn't have time to post them.

The cell was moving south to north, and behind it to the south it was quite clear...

Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 50mm — ¹/3200 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — image data
Clear
relatively speaking

Bright fluffy clouds even peeked through the curtain of rain...

Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 50mm — ¹/4000 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — image data

Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 50mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — image data
Four-Shot Panorama

It's not a particular compelling panorama, but I like the effect, so here we are. Here's a bigger version you can scroll from side to side:

Localized Cell — scroll side-to-side — 水平にスクロールしてね —
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Here's what the weather radar looked like at the time, with my position being marked by the black square:

It soon passed...

Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 240mm — ¹/3200 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200 — image data
Just Behind The Cell