The Advancing Storm

The utter calm of the Everglades sets the scene for the approaching drama as a storm advances from the Gulf of Mexico…The surface of the sea does not convey the destructive power that churns in the sky above, as the storm bears down on the stillness of the coastline and cuts the aqua plane with graceful waves of falling rain. Meanwhile the cumulonimbus cloud form blows out and we witness its anvil top forming. As the ledge expands toward our position downwind, the sky grows dark and the calm of the sea is shattered by the downward blasts of convective energy.

6 thoughts on “The Advancing Storm”

JPei on September 21, 2014 at 3:20 am said:

Did you take all these photos? They’re AWESOME.

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- aerialhorizon on September 21, 2014 at 4:13 am said:
  
  Thanks. Yes, these are all my photographs.
  
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  - JPei on September 21, 2014 at 5:03 am said:
    
    How did you get these vantage points?
    
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  - aerialhorizon on September 21, 2014 at 12:43 pm said:
    
    It’s serendipity. I fly airplanes for a living and keep my eyes open for opportunities to capture that perspective.
    
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drawandshoot on September 22, 2014 at 8:23 pm said:

Fantastic! I love the tension in all that beauty.

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- aerialhorizon on September 23, 2014 at 4:21 am said:
  
  Thanks. From altitude we could really see the storms reflection in its path…made for a foreboding scene.
  
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