At the height of the storm, I was able to make the dense curtain of rain appear by using a relatively slow shutter speed of 1/30th of a second. The woman who leads the way across Lexington Avenue here is soaking wet, but still gamely holds her blue umbrella over her head as she checks the condition of hair. The people who follow her across the intersection have no such worries as they stride through the bursts of exploding raindrops on the pavement below them.