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There was real fire in the sky tonight in one of those rare sunsets that just suddenly appear out of dullness and grey skies. I spent ten minutes shooting the ever changing scene! This moment caught my eye in particular as this amazing line of what looked to me like twisting strands of rope appeared right through the sky!
Taken just outside my front door in Mount Gambier, South Australia.
Noon storm with a double lightning strike near Mt. Penteli, Athens, Greece, 12.06.2021. Canon 5dmk4, Sigma Art 14 mm, f/4, NiSi ND nano filter 64, iso 100.
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There is never a dull or boring sunrise on the Murray river, and this one was no exception. The pink slash on the horizon lasted only seconds as the low cloud swirled and changed quickly.
Happy Nice Wonderful Cloud Tuesday!
The sun was well down already and streetlights were on before this sudden burst of colour appeared briefly. I just had time for a handful of shots and it quickly disappeared.
One of the most colorful parhelia, I've ever seen. Shot on Feb. 5, 2021.
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These distant tiny birds (about one kilometre away) looked like they were on a hunt for the mythical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. When I took the shot, I did not even see them in the viewfinder (and they are still not visible in a thumbnail of the image) as I was mainly looking for a telephoto shot of the rainbow colours! I am not totally sure what they are - maybe welcome swallows?
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
This is the outflow from the microburst, during the storm on Aug. 22, 2022. The rain curl on the edge, indicating the power of the downdraft, always attracts my attention.
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Thank you all so very much for your comments and faves, but most of all I thank you for just taking the time to look. I appreciate each and every one of you! Gracias. Merci. Danke. Obrigado. Grazie. Go raibh maith agat. Tapadh leat. Gratias tibi.
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This was the same sunset as my other image for today 'Sunset 1'. This was just 15 minutes later and was hastily taken through our laundry window. The little blast of intense colour lasted exactly 30 seconds. By the time I walked outside to take a better shot, the colour was completely gone!
Yes, tickets sell out quickly for the evening sunset show here in Mount Gambier! It is mostly attended by starlings, with an occasional magpie getting lucky with a centre, front row seat!
This is our retirement village community TV antenna that supplies the signal to 250 units! It's just as well this has no effect on reception! ; )
Early morning of 13.10.2020 - Stack of 5 *consecutive* photos. All these CGs happened within 3' only.
This night had 2 tornadic supercells in Athens. This one gave an EF2 tornado 30' later. The other, possibly an EF0 later on. See more about this night, here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2020/10/blog-post.html
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I grabbed a few shots of this local sunset - nothing spectacular for colour, but very interesting and moody clouds. Not seeing much potential for colour, I went inside and put the camera away.
The sun went down tonight in a sudden blaze of glory over here in Mount Gambier! The western sky was just a dull grey when these amazing rays quickly burst upward for just a few minutes. I was only able to hastily grab a few shots through our laundry window (which was thankfully clean) before the dull greyness returned.
Somewhere out of shot, a handsome man in a tuxedo is searching in his pockets for the keys to either a DB9 or a DB5. Either way, he will be happy to jump behind the wheel of an Aston Martin.
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A pair of 1/18th scale models from the cheap and cheerful end of the model spectrum - the Aston Martin DB9 by Motor Max, and the Aston Martin DB5 by Solido, set against a moody and dramatic sunset taken from Big Hill lookout in Stawell in Western Victoria.
Posting one from the archives for the moment - another version of one already posted a couple of years ago. Just back from a week away, and still getting unpacked and organised - will catch up soon!
Nocturnal non-tornadic supercell with several multiple lightning strikes. This is a quintuple one. On the far left side, one can observe the rotating wall cloud. A funnel has been observed. No confirmed contact with the ground. Athens, Greece, Oct. 13, 2021.
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Brilliant yellow wild mustard blooming in Joshua Tree National Park, California. This desert area is incredibly beautiful.
Thank you all so very much for your comments and faves, but most of all I thank you for just taking the time to look. I appreciate each and every one of you! Gracias. Merci. Danke. Obrigado. Grazie. Go raibh maith agat. Tapadh leat. Gratias tibi.
All photos are ©Tom Harrington and may not be used in any way without my permission. Thank you.
Well, it's almost a smiley face - just a slightly flat one! (In the frame that followed this, it was a frowning face!)
3 unidentified ducks flying low in the thin red line of sunrise over the Murray river near Mannum, South Australia.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
(I was trying to categorise this shot, so, I have decided it is a wildlife, cloud, sunrise, telephoto, landscape, panorama, birds in flight, silhouette shot.....just to keep things simple!)
A sunset view taken from the deck of our rented holiday cabin on the foreshore at Kingston SE in South Australia.
Two shots of last night's sunset - one looking traditionally west, and the other taken at the same time looking east to the moonrise.
Just 60 metres below, everything was a total grey-out with the whole Murray River area blanketed in fog, so I went up to the Mannum lookout and just managed to find some sun over the top of the fog.
Low clouds over the city, as the thunderstorm moves on to the east. Tons of rain on my back, but some nice lightning strikes in front of me. It was a day when up to 200 mm of precipitation were recorded locally in the city within some hours. That's about the 2/5 of the yearly precipitation. Canon 5Dmk4, Sigma Art 14 mm f/1.8 @ f/2.5, iso 100, 1/25'', NiSi ND64 nano filter. Athens, Greece, Oct. 14, 2021.
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Dramatic weather surrounds the spectacular Sangdo Palri Temple above the vast and beautiful San Luis Valley in southern Colordo.
Thanks so much everyone for your views, kind comments and faves! I really appreciate them! Happy spring and happy shooting!
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I was amazed at how quickly this first blush of pink went across the sky, turning it pink in a matter of seconds. Another wonderful start to a Riverland day.
Happy Nice Wonderful Cloud Tuesday!
Through my long lens, this distant storm looked amazing in the last rays of a setting sun, with the first layer of cloud already down in the shadows while the upper levels of the stormcloud still caught the peachy sunset tones.
Sunset with beautiful colors, as the storms were retreating towards the Aegean Sea. Canon 5Dmk4, full spectrum with Astronomik L2 filter. Taken on 08.02.2024, from E. Attica, Greece.
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Rainshafts from a thunderstorm after sunset, towards my west horizon. This one had lightning strikes 10' before this shot. Unfortunately it didn't give a last one to complete this frame. Athens, Greece, 12.06.2021.
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The storm invades the city. Triple lightning accompanies the rain. There was also a lot of hail. Night of Nov. 5, 2022.
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Columniform red sprites over the thunderstorms of the Ionian sea and W. Greece as seen from W. Attica during the night of Oct. 11, 2021. Intense parent lightning flash is obvious too. I've used a Sigma 20 mm lens at f/1.4 with 32k iso. More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...
What is a red sprite? Info here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-sprite.html
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Another bolt from the blue lightning, near Artemida, east of Athens, Greece, early morning of 03.07.2021. It was an amazing night with NLCs (recorded for the first time in GR), red sprites and a close TS with amazing BFBs. Sigma Art 85 mm, f/4, iso 800.
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After a night and all day of rain, a break at sunset
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52 Weeks: 2025 Edition: Week 11: Silhouette
Shooting city scape white open capturing Greenwich Park, the Queens House and the skyline of Canary Wharf in the background…From the Royal Observatory you get the best panoramic view of London
Strong contrasts of sunny and shady spots in the Austrian Brandnertal. After showers of rain, the sun finally broke through.
The descent from Melkboden to Brand along the Palüd trail rewarded us with wonderful views! [Explored on 12 July 2025, #81]
Daytime bolt from the blue lightning with the help of ND filter.
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Another wonderful painted sky appeared outside our front door again. Brief, but beautiful.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Last night's severe weather featured a lot of swirling,dark clouds in our area of northwest Illinois, but thankfully no tornadoes...
The Merc (Mercantile National Bank) seen from the Statler Hotel rooftop bar … One of the greatest views in the Dallas city center…
Even the birdlife seemed to be gazing at this cloudscape that developed for a few minutes on an unusually grey and foggy sunrise. I tried converting this to monochrome, but there was no difference, so this is the full colour version!
This was taken shortly before the previous post and may well have been the bolt that started the grassfire!
(I later found out that there were dozens of grassfires started by this storm all through the south east of South Australia and around Mount Gambier.)
A panoramic shot of a shelf cloud from the thunderstorm over Athens, Greece on 28/10/2020. Observe the left edge touching the mountain. Acropolis is in the middle of the frame.
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Green hailcore entering the city and mammatus clouds on top. Canon 5Dmk4, Sigma Art 14 mm, NiSi ND64 nano filter. Athens, Greece, Oct. 15, 2021.
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Dangerous bolt from the blue lightning, striking on the ground, ~15 km away from the storm's core. I guess, someone there, was not happy at all. Athens, Greece, 10.06.2021. Canon 5Dmk4, f/8, iso 100, NiSi ND nano filter 64, Sigma Art 14 mm.
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