Heavy, heavy rain!

Shooting in adverse weather conditions always presents a challenge but when the rain is so heavy that it is like looking through fog, then you know you have a bit on! And that is exactly what happened when shooting the Monsoon Cup yachting in Malaysia recently. They don't call it The Monsoon Cup for nothing! It was some of the heaviest rain I've ever experienced and with visibility down to few metres it was hard to know what I was photographing. In these conditions rain covers for the cameras are worth their weight in gold. With a few thousand dollars worth of camera and lens to protect, the rain covers need to be good so a big thumbs up to the Griffgear covers that somehow kept the kit dry. Here's a couple of shots - the first of the approaching rain and the second a few minutes later when it was really chucking it down.