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An old picture, from when I used to over process everything instead of making it right in the camera itself :)
The weather at Fort Macon beach in North Carolina can change quickly. It was very sunny just a few minutes before this.
storm swells breaking on the Sydney coast, July 2020. Wave heights reached 11.5m. Canon 6D EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM. Lightroom 6.
Unfortunately I didn't make it to the beach to catch the front moving through, but, I thought the back side was pretty nice as well.
The arrival of a big storm is very apparent as a North Platte bound train makes its presence known for miles around. Leading the way is one of UP's heritage units, this one the Rio Grande, and although you can't tell in the shadows it was getting a well needed bath in the rain.
The MRVNP started in Roseville that morning, however by the time they were ready to go the dispatcher decided to let any and everything through first. The train had to wait for Amtrak, power moves, a southbound, and then a canyon train. The canyon train was painfully slow, since it could not fit in the yard they had to split the train in two to get it in, blocking the main for over an hour. Finally, the train pulled into the yard and the North Platte could leave. It was after 12:30 at this point, hours later than the train usually leaves. With about four hours before sunset I was hoping the train would fly up track two instead of taking the long, steep, and slow track one. However, Amtrak 5 was coming down, and was lined down two, so now there was a slow and massive manifest headed up one. After struggling up the hill to Auburn, the train would stop yet again. This time, it was for a westbound manifest that was still east of Colfax. Though my plan was to get it in snow, it was well after 2:30 by that point so I got lunch and waited knowing well I was not getting far up the hill. Finally, the train got on the move again, and continuing up track one it was still going very slow. The good news though was at least for the rest of the chase the train would not get screwed by the dispatcher again.
I would make it to Casa Loma before the light was about gone. Heavy rain had also rolled in as well by the time I had reached Colfax, so that did not help the lighting situation either. What it did do though was make for a really cool effect with the headlights. You could hear the train for miles, as all units roared in full throttle and the sound of a horn periodically echoed through the hills. After the train passed, there was no point in continuing on, it was way to dark and the next round of snow is still a few days out.
We saw this on our return from church trip, crossing over Afton Mountain and Anita pulled into the overlook at the top of the mountain so I could get this shot. Earlier we had driven through this same storm I think and it was.... white knuckle time for sure!! :)
Autumn storm slides east and out to sea just clearing Mt Somerville and Mt Tomewin. Bright blue afternoon sky is revealed.
Our last night in southern Arizona is a night I will remember forever. It was our 5th night of storm chasing. The storms and lightning displays were good to great the previous 4 nights, but this night looked like a bust. After a beautiful sunset, a few rain showers had an occasional flash of lightning but that was it. We were east of Marana, Arizona (north of Tucson), and I had my camera pointed toward a light shower I could barely see in the distance to our south. After an hour of photographing the sky and wishing something would happen, I admitted to myself that it was over. I said a little prayer thanking God for the trip, the storms, and safety. Then I prepared to pack up my camera equipment. Seconds later, a flash, then another, and another. It turns out the heavens weren't done, they were about to put on the best grand finale I could imagine.
There was one storm in the southern part of the state and I had the best vantage point possible. Half of the lightning was striking outside of the rain. My side of the storm is where the "clear air strikes" were located and there were hundreds of bolts. I was fortunate to see it from the very start. At one point, a storm chaser raced down the dirt road I was at and stopped right in front of me and my camera. I could see him pulling up the radar on his phone before he drove down the road a little more. I was frustrated at first because he raced right into my photographs and stopped there. However, it really tells the perfect story. This was the destination in southern Arizona on August 10, 2023 for all of the monsoon chasers. They were racing to see this incredible beast before it weakened over the Catalina Mountains.
This image does not capture everything that happened. It is a composite (stacked image) showing 11 minutes of action around 8:30pm local time. There were 30 images and 30 flashes of lightning captured, but most flashes of lightning had 2 to 5 bolts in it each that touched the ground. There are a total of 83 cloud-to-ground bolts of lightning in this image...or in other words, about 1 bolt of lightning every 8 seconds! It was an incredible night, and hopefully, this image tells the story.
(Explore # 123)
It's been stormy in the afternoon and evening the past few days. Here's a storm on Monday coming in from the Northeast. Not a typical direction for a storm coming into the Morris area. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
This storm arrived last night so the full force came overnight but there was still enough of a wind to make for dramatic seascape this morning.
This weekend we had storm on the isle which brought heavy rain and gusts of wind. Actually theres a wide beach but today there was nothing which was somehow very spectacular!
Storm 2022/06/19.
Orage du 6 juin 2022.
4 pictures merged on Photoshop.
Fusion de 4 images sous Photoshop.
Sometimes storms do not form slowly with a bit of cloud and a few spots of rain; they come in strong and brutal. No mucking about with rain and warning claps of thunder, but with immediate flashes of lightening with no gap between the light and sound. Then the air is filled with ricocheting hailstones as big as golf balls.