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I've gone out to weather watch for a couple of years now, and I can finally say I've seen my first area of rotation. I stumbled upon this tiny funnel just west of Wyanet, IL.
Quite the rush seeing my first funnel, and it all happened so fast; no more than a minute. Didn't even have time to shoot pictures as I was most concerned about video.
Enjoy the frame grab!
for slider sunday and the CLiC group and ANSH
this just goes to show that you can have FUN finding containers into which you can put christmas lights. and people have started to post outside lighted figures too (see the first comment box)
ANSH scavenger7 lights in containers
>>>>> apologies to Vincent LAMBERT, Steve-h, and Blinde 8
who had faved this and several people who left
lovely comments and then i went and made some changes;
but it was crooked and i just had to straighten it out!!!!!!!! ~grin~
btb, it looks even neater in the lightbox, you can type L to experience that :)
'RED EAGLE' one of Red Funnels fleet of three Raptor class Ferries, which see use between Southampton and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
This plume is the result of a massive volume of molten lava shooting out of a lava tube that lies within the lava I am standing on while taking this photo.
The lava explodes as it hits the ocean water resulting in tremendous heat, steam, sulfur gas, glass particles, rock and sand. So much turbulence often spawns heat tornadoes or water spouts. This spout is about 100-feet long and I could not tell if it actually sucked up any water.
This image was used on a leading TV news story about these spouts, here in Hawaii.
Between the plume and the funnel other little twisters are forming.
This shot and many of my molten lava photos are available for prints or digital downloads here
ODC-Water
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While I was out weeding, I spied this big spider. It wasn't far from a funnel web on the Sweet Woodruff. It had water on it because I was giving the plants a spritz.
Funnel weavers are a type of spider found in the family Agelenidae. You will most likely see these spiders out and about during the fall season. They like to create large webs in your garden that become covered in frost and dew during the morning hours. You may also find them creating their webs in your window sills, doorways, or down in your cellar.
Funnel weavers are venomous, so people were afraid of them for a long time. However, researchers don’t think there is any threat to humans. Some people have more of a sensitivity to them than others, but the likelihood is that you’ll be okay. Like most spiders, funnel weavers aren’t thought to be toxic to humans. They use their venom to catch prey. outforia.com/types-of-spiders/
Meteorologists have been introducing new terminology for major weather events, so why not establish some expressions for landscape conditions such as, Funnel Vortex!
Once you start to fall, there is no stopping!
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Fuji Reala 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Eastern Screech Owl - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
My latest tenant.
This year it's a gray morph, who's still a wee bit on the shy side,
but it'll eventually get used to me.
This capture was toward the end of the run, just a few minutes before it flew off for its evening hunt. I like the low light, and I'm willing to take my chances with 5 - 10 second exposures, since it has to be pretty dark to capture these guys with their eyes wide open.
Regarding flash:
No flash was used here since I feel it flattens the image, and the green BG next to the bird house would be black rather than green, which I think helps to bring out the greenish color in the eyes.
This storm appeared out of no where. Either that or the radar was down. As it showed not a cloud in the sky at 5:30 this evening.
Walking the trails behind Rancho Naturalista, I saw a number of these spiders in front of their funnels, poised on webby platforms they had constructed with the aid of anything that jutted out from the same earthen trail banks used by the Amblypygi for their burrows. I saw them there on my night walk while looking for the Amblypygi, reminding me of the funnel-weaving grass spiders back home. They are in a different family from those, but seem to have developed similar hunting habits, although most of these appeared to be waiting out on their platforms rather than back in the funnel.
Happy Arachtober 24, pt 2
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Web Wednesday!
Tengella radiata
Rancho Naturalista, near Turrialba, Costa Rica
21 March 2018
Some neat clouds around yesterday morning.. coming in after the electrical storm. Want to see a lightening photo & whole bunch of other sick photos… head on over to www.heatwavesaustralia.com
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Scanned lith print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL with Mamiya-Sekor 80mm/f1.9. Shot wide open.
Fomapan 100 developed in Fomadon R09 1+100, semistand 1 hour.
Lith printed on Oriental Seagull G-2 (8x10"), glossy fiber bromide paper from 1983, with Moersch SE5 (25A+25B+750H2O) @ 35°C.
Untoned.
April 27, 2019. Hvaler, Norway.
There are no lack of spider photo ops around here. This funnel web spider lives just next to my walk way so I see it all the time. It's a creepy critter but I assume it's doing its job. Between the bazillion-trillion spiders that inhabit this land and the frogs, toads, fish and bats I have no problems with mosquitoes!! Glad I have a pretty good zoom lense!!
This was an active period for storms, some ten days after the tornado, we had several funnels appear with quite a high rate of rotation.