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Captured this monster this evening as it marched up the Stuart Highway near McMinns Lagoon. Shot with my DJI Mini 3 Pro in Sphere mode to show its full scale.
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Storm Chasing in South Central Kansas. This storm would later go on to drop a tornado near Cedar Vale Kansas.
Taken in the fall of 1999, this photograph appeared on the front page of www.arizona.edu between 2000-2003.
This turned into one of my favorite lightning shots taken. The lightning strike placed itself about as pefrectly as I could design, since there really was not much sky in the shot when I set it up. Results like this require a lot of wasted film, but it's more than worth the trouble.
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When you go on a three-day stormchasing trip, you tend to get focused on one thing: storms. I think that's obvious enough. You usually have a ton of driving to do on an excursion like this so there isn't always a lot of time to spend dilly-dallying as my mom would say.
The fact that this isn't a storm photo should tell you something. The three-day trip was kind of a huge bust for me. The storms just didn't happen like they were supposed to and I'm having a rough time dealing with that today. Tons of driving...money...time away from family. I had amazingly high expectations for myself and I basically came away with nothing I had hoped to capture before leaving.
I'm not writing this for people to feel sorry for me. In fact, while I am on the verge of real sadness over this (probably the tiredness is playing a big part too), I see it as a positive for myself. It's a re-assurance of my passion for photography in general. Feeling this much disappointment over something as silly sounding as stormchasing kind of validates it all for me.
So today's image is a grain silo that was abandoned in the middle of western Kansas. Because when life gives you blue skies instead of supercells, you try to shoot something else. With a lot of time on my hands with no weather to photograph, I shot a lot of what I'm dubbing "FarmEx" instead of the normal "UrbEx."
I definitely wouldn't drive 2200 miles and spend gobs of money to see a bunch of abandoned farm houses and barns...but I'll tell you what: Kansas is full of that kind of stuff and you could go nuts shooting out there.
(exif info: canon eos 5d mark ii, tamron 17-35mm 2.8, 35mm, f/14, iso 100, 1/160 sec)
We actually didn't think anything would form on the last day of the SLT tour but we actually saw a VERY brief landspout as well as this very pretty little supercell. Not a bad day in all.
May 22, 2004 - West of Kearney Nebraska
Interesting Storm... We were on the very tip of a system that stretched all the way from North Dakota to basically Kearney Nebraska and a tid bit farther south into south central Nebraska.
All of the severest of storms were way north but the outflow tail of this storm was all outflow dominate. Beautiful layered shelf cloud, with some ferocious teeth as it sliced its way to the east.
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Storm Chasing in South Central Kansas. This storm would later go on to drop a tornado near Cedar Vale Kansas.
My friends and I chased this storm from north of Ellinwood to Salina KS following it on highway 156 and 140. there was storm chasers following this storm. we saw up to 20 cars ahead of us on highway 140. You know you're on the right storm when there's tons of chasers everywhere and the DOW (doppler on wheels), from OK. 5-8-21.
a beautiful Alberta storm ran from Penhold to east of Stettler. I stayed with it while it posed in front of flowering wheat fields, canola fields and pictureqsue ponds until it passed Pine Lake.
I'm a believer in Colorado after this storm. It wasn't anything worth driving through until you made it out on the other side.
Storm Chasing in South Central Kansas. This storm would later go on to drop a tornado near Cedar Vale Kansas.
StormChase_CoolBridge_07 - Those flame converse stand out so much against the plain colors of the ground and his dark jeans...
My friends and I chased this storm from north of Ellinwood to Salina KS following it on highway 156 and 140. there was storm chasers following this storm. we saw up to 20 cars ahead of us on highway 140. You know you're on the right storm when there's tons of chasers everywhere and the DOW (doppler on wheels), from OK. 5-8-21.
Yesterday was my first proper storm chase. A strip down the middle of Oklahoma was under a tornado watch from from early afternoon into the evening. We headed out of Norman just before 2pm with a plan to head southwest.
Heading down towards Chickasha we stopped off at a petrol station somewhere, where I bought essential supplies (m&m's and crisps), while Jon W and Matt spoke to some other chasers who had pulled up at the same petrol station. We followed their lead and decided the hang around there for a bit to see what the storms were doing. The News Channel 4 mobile newsroom also pulled in for a minute, and there was a bit of a downpour.
We carried on down I-44 for a while before turning off and stopping at the side of the road somewhere near Sterling and watched a storm to the east. There was a mesocyclone, but the rotation wasn't very strong, however, the amount of rain coming out of it was impressive. When the rain shaft shifted it revealed the Wichita mountains on the horizon. There was also quite a lot of scud rising, and we think there was smoke from a fire in the distance, possibly caused by lightning.
After a while there, we drove to Rush Springs then South to Duncan. When we reached Duncan, the worst of the lightning was right on top of us. There was one strike where it was impossible to discern a gap between the lightning and the thunder... and it was loud. It was also raining pretty heavily at this point.
We continued on State Highway 7, which heads east after Duncan. We were heading into a strong storm. We lost internet and the rain and wind got so crazy that we ended up making the decision to turn around. After the rain cleared we saw some amazing cloud formations, including some mammatus clouds, and some beautiful sun streaks out of the clouds.
After stopping back in Duncan for some dinner (I had Taco Bell), we pulled over on a turnpike to take some pictures. It seemed there were storms all around. After an incident with a police officer due to someone lying in the road, we moved off but then stopped again in a church car park to continue taking photos. Then the rain came in once more. It was like a wall gradually moving closer. Trees in the distance began to disappear, then trees closer and closer did the same and then it poured. I thought it would be fun to not get back in the car. And I was right, although I was soaked for the rest of the night.
After this we made our way back to Norman, not without an accompanying light show. No tornadoes, but a fantastic day, nonetheless.