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Dunes, Sand Storm. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A sand storm sweeps across layered dunes.
Here I decided to offer a somewhat more subjective view of a sand dunes scene, photographed late in the day during a period of high winds and a sand storm. If you see this as a calm scene... imaging gale winds blowing across from left to right, carrying large volumes of airborne sand, and the distant views obscured by these clouds filling the atmosphere. It was a wild scene, and I was only able to photograph it for a short period of time.
The question of what is "real" in photographs has long intrigued me. There are few cases in which I believe the goal of a photograph might be to present an objectively accurate rendering of the subject. In fact, I believe that it is actually impossible for a photograph to do that — I like to say that, "All photographs lie." Some who feel differently about this, and who hold that photographs should be "real," point to classic photography when suggesting this. However, if any mode of photography is amenable to creative license, it is black and white photography! The ability to produce an expressively subject image in black and white may be unsurpassed. And here I "went there," with a photograph that aspires not to reproduce objective reality but one that hopes to evoke subjective truth.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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Taken during a storm in Barmouth recently. We got wet - very wet :( but we did get nice light - very nice light :)
An edit to this photo. Cropped a bit and lightened up some of the darkness.
A final storm chase of the season
The weather gods offered one more opportunity to capture some nice stormy shots before retiring until next year. I chased this storm from front to back, before setting up behind it to catch some of the lightning it was spitting out.
This was a tornado warned supercell, part of the 3/5/2022 Iowa outbreak that also spawned the Winterset, IA tornado, one year ago today. This particular cell, much to my chagrin, never produced anything of desire, though it continually looked promising. I spent 30 minutes wishing, but it wasn't meant to be. It was pretty to watch, nonetheless, as the rotation of the structure was obvious, nearby lightning was minimal, and the rain was west and north. It was a perfect storm, if you will, aside from its imperfections.
3/5/2022
Moravia, IA
At the end of a stormchase we were rewarded by nature with fantastic colours caused by the light of the low sun.
The effects of tropical storm Tomas on small craft in Carlisle Bay, Barbdos, West Indies, Saturday October 30, 2010. The sail boat was eventually thrown on to the beach where it remained partially overturned.
Another boat from Meols beach Wriral. Was many boats left out. Wont be long before they are all ashore for winter.
I am out in America at the moment chasing storms... I took this one yesterday.
Looks like it could be an active weekend ahead too : )
Taken in the Denver Convergence Vorticity weather zone.
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