Daily Photo – Fourteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale

Daily Photo – Fourteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale
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The vertical framing of this shot has changes the overall exposure with the layer of cloud above the aircraft more dark and ominous looking. The sun is setting on the far side of the cloud wall with rays of sunlight streaking through the gaps in the clouds lighting them up like they're on fire while sheets of rain fall on the communities just inland of the coast.

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Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2
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The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is a shade over 500 miles per hour (all things being equal) so we'd traveled about eight miles closer to the cloud wall. Add to that the cloud wall was moving west, towards us and that yields the change in the cloud shapes between the two photo-sets.

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Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers
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As we approached the west coast of Florida I saw a wall of cloud to the south-east, pretty much aligned with the coast, illuminated from the setting sun to the west. I shot several frames of the scene with my Canon S100.

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