Before The Storm
View allAll Photos Tagged storm_clouds
font: Trajan Pro
Spent a couple of pleasant hours with Jan looking around here recently.
See Jan's version HERE
Just returned from a fun trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
Stopped for a night in St. George, Utah, and captured the evening colors at a local park.
Kaltene, Latvia.
It passed over us quickly and moved to the horizon with great voices and strength. I understand why people from the past have related it to Gods.
Its late afternoon as I park my car and start the ¾ mile trek down to the Mono Lake “Tufa Towers.”
I can see a storm blowing eastward from the Sierra Nevada Mountains (approaching from the left side of the photo). The wind is howling, blowing my hat off, and a few raindrops are landing on my camera gear.
I quickly attach an ND 10-stop filter to my lens and set about capturing what I can before the storm arrives. I managed to get the shot I was after and scrabble back to the safety of my car before the storm clouds and lightning closed in on the lake... Life is Good : )
Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old -- one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet.
Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2 1/2 times as salty as the ocean and very alkaline.
The "tufa towers," are calcium-carbonate spires and knobs formed by interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water.
Mono Lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp that thrive in its waters, and provides critical nesting habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp and blackflies.
(Nikon, 14-24/2.8 @ 14mm, ND 10-stop filter, 10 sec @ f/22, ISO 100)
This image was taken twelve years ago during my favourite photo charter of all time on the Churnet Valley Railway. It's sad and a real shame that this stretch of track has been lifted and is no longer in use as it had some of the best locations for photography along the railway!
A challenging sunset shoot in stormy weather at Kampen beach
Kampen, Sylt, Germany
Thank you for visiting and your kind comments, awards and faves - I appreciate them all.
Along the canal in Erba Park across from the Bamberg canal harbor. A spectacular evening sky. [SNY07310_lr_2000]
Thank you all for the clicks, comments & faves.
I was so hoping a T-storm would be materialized and maybe I'd be lucky enough to capture my very first lightning photo. Alas, it dissipated within ~20 minutes.
Hmmm, I probably can't label it "Storm Cloud" as no storm ever came out of it.
I wish you all a happy day!
This was taken about 22 miles east of Bend just off Hwy 20. It's great when you are on this side of the storm taking the photos. Unfortunately, that was the way we came and ended up having to drive through it to get home. Hard rain and hail, so that was fun.
A quick play around with Photoshop to produce this HDR sunset shot.
Aperture ƒ/20.0
Focal length 18.0 mm
Shutter 2 secs
ISO 80
These very different looking clouds brought more snow, hail, rain, you name it - and the morning sun pierced through for one sublime moment!
A panoramic image of the Manannán mac Lir sculpture - the Celtic God of the sea, and the storm clouds over Inishowen in County Donegal.
A horizontal panoramic image made from 5 images stitched together to produce a wider viewpoint of the storm clouds over Inishowen.
The storm clouds developed over Derry and travelled down Lough Foyle before heading out to sea.
This little village has been clinging to the rocks and cliff faces for over a thousand years. Sentries stood watch atop the watchtower so they could alert the village of approaching pirate ships.