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This developing storm to the northwest of the peak had more in store. By the time we arrived at the top, everyone was instructed back to their vehicles because of the storm. Snow grains began falling, thunder sounded, and twenty minutes of pea sized hail accompanied the ride down from about the halfway point down to Maniteau Springs. In that time the NWS severe warned the storm.
6/8/2025
A selected lightning bolt photo from the thunderstorms on the 4th of November 2025 over Athens.
On the right side, one can see the Panathenaic Stadium. On the center-left side there is the southern part of mt. Imittos.
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Some typical south coast scenery and wildlife near Port MacDonnell on South Australia's most southerly point. The gulls were busy as several visitors disposed of their excess lunchtime chips (and the gulls consequently disposed of their own excess all over my car!!!)
Looking East towards Sonora Pass and the crest of the Sierra Nevada, Tuolumne County, California. There is still some snow on the hills in the background after last week's big storm. Another storm will hit in a few hours.
Panoramic view
The Sunset tonight right from my backyard
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52 Weeks: 2024 Edition: Week 29: Low Key
A great morning if you are a storm lover. 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 20 mm, f/4, iso 1000.
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Even though it is at the right edge of the frame, I like the way streamers come out from the main channel, esp. at its lower end. Saronic gulf, south of Athens, Greece, night of 26.09.2023.
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BODY LANGUAGE/THE INVISIBLE WOMAN by Wicked Eiren
This is the first time Wicked is showing her work at an SL Art Gallery. and of course I am super proud she choose Nitroglobus.
Proud to present this intriguing and very emotional exhibition by Wicked who with these images asks for acknowledgement of/attention for her situation, and that of many others in the world who are suffering from Central Sensitivity Syndromes (CSSs), an umbrella term which houses a series of complex chronic diseases like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, and many more.
A diseases that you can not see, but which needs to be heard, the silent scream!
The opening party @ dido's part of Nitroglobus will be Monday, 27 June, 12 PM SLT, starting with a short contemporary ballet by Milena and Lalitha Carbone, followed by tunes of DJ Niels.
Special thanks to Adwehe for her awesome light art, specially created for this exhibition.
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Poem by Toni Blackman selected by Wicked:
'I am an invisible woman.
Not because people refuse to see me.
They know I am here.
But it's as if my (pain) detracts from my existence.
My presence too often mistaken for absence.
I am an invisible woman.'
More info about the artist, the exhibition and the disease mentioned above: touch the info giver at entrance point in the gallery.
LM to Nitroglobus, dido's part of the gallery: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
The two galahs and the other small bird - possibly a starling - soon took flight as this whistling kite came swooping in to claim its rightful place on top of the old stump.
The background bokeh to this silhouette is largely some early morning clouds with a hint of sunrise colour.
I started out taking sunrise shots, but a sudden flurry of starlings erupted from the reeds and made for some added interest!
A slight re-edit of an old fave from the archives.
Into the Light - Day 357 - Year 2022
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... into night again and a chance of snow as well.
When I shot this band of storm clouds, the wind was so intense that it kept pushing me around and I was hoping it would be in focus.
Well I guess they named this storm Elliot... day started out at 53°F and is supposed to plummet to 10°F tonight. Since we already lost power for about 8 hours today, I hope the winds don't knock it out again. A constant 20-30 mph chilling wind with gusts to 45 mph are supposed to continue until Sunday.
Brr! Too quick a change for me in the scheme of things and looks like time for another blanket on the bed tonight.
From the Big Trip 3D slide archives - 2004.
This was actually on the final day of our huge trip around Australia, and was taken on the foreshore of the caravan park where we stayed in Portland, Victoria. When I woke up in our cabin, I noticed an intense red glow around the edge of the bedroom window. Well, I think I was up, dressed, and down on the beach in less than a minute to catch the amazing colours in the sky.
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Happy New Year to all! A stormy beginning for this year, after a very long and abnormally warm period. One can observe the "channel transfer" due to the strong wind (the small spikes on the main channel). This is how "ribbon lightning" occurs (observe the small branch on the upper end of the photo). Taken on 07.01.2024, 0140 EET, from E. Attica, Greece, looking east.
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A soon to be tornado warned storm approaches the Manchester, IL metro area and CPKC’s Springfield Subdivision.
6/17/2026
This was the first stage of what turned out to be a sunrise lasting well over an hour and coming in several distinct stages. This first stage was the very early vivid colour low on the horizon, creating some wonderful silhouettes in the distant trees. Shortly after this it went dark and grey again before the next stage - stay tuned next week for part two.
Taken from the deck of our caravan park cabin on the banks of the Murray river in Mannum, South Australia.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Another view of a very brief burst of soft colour low on the horizon that lasted 30 seconds before turning into a grey day.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Last night's sunset was a long lasting one and the colour on the horizon hung on for a long time until well after the street-lamps had taken over and the stars were visible overhead.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
I was thoroughly enjoying watching the passing storms which were about 60km away as they drifted from west to east along the horizon. Just as the sunset started making the distant clouds glow, another storm suddenly hit us from behind. This was taken through a curtain of pouring rain, hence the slight softness of the detail. Even though I was hoping for it, the lightning bolt was a big bonus!
Later storms that evening knocked out the power for around 8 hours, but thankfully did little other damage despite dumping a sudden 40mm of rain.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
These beautiful Ocatilla cactus are about 10 to 12 feet tall, and they can grow even higher.
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.
The sky took on a dramatic look the other night as I took this slight patch of sunset colour while facing due east! The western sky was actually dull and grey.
It was a decent chase day. A non-tornadic supercell stormed the city in the afternoon, some lightning later on during the evening/twilight over the east coast (the lightning in this photo is from there) and red sprites at night.
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A couple of silver gulls and crested terns settle in for the night on a very calm and peaceful early evening just after sunset at the end of the wonderful, long Port Germein jetty. This is facing roughly SSW with Port Pirie just out of view to the left and Whyalla on the horizon to the right, across the Spencer Gulf. Port Germein is a little visited but wonderful unspoilt seaside village just off the main highway between Port Pirie and Port Augusta in South Australia.
Wisp of clouds tickle the blue sky. A mild breeze blows through trees of green. The smell of sizzling burgers on the grill. The distant sound of a playful dog. A time of summer relaxation occurs on the patio.
And this one is perfect. Seen at a regular Saturday morning gathering of a wide variety of cars in the parking lot of a donut shop in Huntington Beach, CA.
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.
I just happened upon this scene on a photoshoot at the old Albuquerque Railyards. Right place, right time I guess.
Thank you all so very much for your visits, comments, and faves. 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.
An early morning shot taken on the eastern side of Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges after a particularly wet winter which left the landscape looking wonderfully lush in what is normally a hot and dry part of the country.
Original colour slide was taken around 2010 with a 3D World medium format stereo film camera using Fuji Provia 100F colour slide film. Scanned with a Canon R10 with RF24-240mm lens and Nisi close up attachment.
*** Apologies for the slight lack of sharpness. I accidentally uploaded this at a slightly lower resolution from the original scan, and once I had uploaded it, did not want to go through the whole process again ***
Taken May 18th 2018. I had traveled to Minnesota for the birth of my granddaughter and was flying back to Atlanta when this was snapped.
A severe storm that later became tornado warned claws across the plains of Colorado south of Limon, seen from Genoa.
6/6/2025
Maybe it is because I have not not seen a good storm in a long time (as it has been Winter in this hemisphere, afterall,) but I got excited about taking this less than dramatic shot this evening of a storm over Morgan County, Missouri from way out in Columbia, IL. Whatever the case, hopefully this is a good season for all you sky and storm nuts out there.
3/6/2026
Shelf cloud on the background as the thunderstorm approaches. Acropolis with Parthenon on the foreground. One can also observe the temple of Olympian Zeus (lower left edge) and Acropolis Museum (the orthogonal building between the temple and Acropolis).
Taken on 21.06.2025, in Athens, Greece, looking southwestwards. Canon 5Dmk4, Sigma Art 35 mm, f/2.5, 1/25'', iso 100, ND filter used.
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While I did "avoid deer while driving" while going to and from Milwaukee. I could not avoid a short chase of a South Shore freight under the wires. Thanks to friends new and old, this was a major score on my list of Chicagoland things to do. I believe this to be a Burns Harbor to BRC Clearing Yard turn job.
They are operating on a portion of the CSSS&SB "East Chicago bypass." Opened in fall of 1956, this 5-mile relocation of track was a mostly elevated right of way that eliminated 15 separate railroad grade crossings with a total of 27 diamond tracks. In addition, 22 street crossings were also eliminated. Ten minutes of running time and an improvement of on time performance were realized with the project. Also, at the same time the construction of the parallel Indiana Toll Road, seen in the background, was undertaken.
Close to the same location:
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