Main Beach
The hi-rises of Main Beach with lightning going out to sea. Forgot my wet weather gear today and caught on the wrong side of the bridge as I was watching a cell to the north and one moved in behind me. Overlooking the broadwater, Gold Coast (06/12/08)
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Dennis Jones -...
Nice capture on this drec… Good detail
Simon Muirhead
nice one mate…i drove to isle of capri boat ramp and council chambers and gave up and decided i was too hungry lol
JKKimball
great grab ! beautifully taken image ~~!!
igotmeacanon
stunning work mate, as ever…how long was the exposure on this one?
drec replied
I try for no more than 30seconds at night, boats have a tendency to move turn and being festive time, lots of traffic on the water
Daniel Rayfield
WOW AWESOME
linda858100
STUNNING
ziko
What a shot. I’m too very curious about your exposure time. And your aperture
drec replied
30 seconds @ f5, iso 100 on the canon about one stop under exposed on camera’s meter
Lisa Hewitt
Tooooooo awesome my friend!!
Maria Medeiros
Amazing!
ChelseaBlue
Super shot, well captured
Laurie Search
Wow, very, very cool!
Paul Manning
Top shot! Tried to get this storm from down my way but the clouds were obscuring all the streaks and didn’t catch any then had to do a bolt over the hill home before the non water camera became a water camera! This is unreal – how wet did you get? Cheers, Paul
drec replied
No rain coat or plastic bags so when I did eventually cross to the northside of the bridge, pretty wet. It’s fun doing this on a push bike.
Nancy Polanski
Your images are all so richly clear and perfect. Your work amazes me.
Fremme
great capture, right place right time or simply very well planed, great image
drec replied
Hind sight will tell me I should have been on this side of the bridge, have packed my wet weather gear and will be ready for tonight if the storms roll through
Mary Ann Reilly
Beautiful composition, Drec.
rossandcher
Great shot – no dount will be plenty more to come this season!
Stephen Thomas
Awesome cityscape! Awesome lightning!
drec
It’s hot and humid here today and my bag is packed and checked, ready for potential storms
Steve Chapple
Stunning power and lighting.
van049
Fantastic shooting Drec!! Great shot from the wrong side of the bridge!!
BTW, just wanted to tell you this is an instant favorite of mine:))xxx
drec replied
Unfortunately, this was the tail end when I got across to the north side, with wind and rain shooting cg’s from the south was impossible, I’ll upgrade my mobile phone so I can pick up the radar while chasing storms so nothing sneaks up from behind
Katewah
Drec – this is awesome. I think you’ll have a bit of action for your photos this year, by the look of the storms.
drec replied
It has been good so far, last year about this time I was cameraless for 3 months. Today’s storm forecast has been replaced with fine….....
Alessandro Pinto
Spectacular Capture…
GrifGrif
this is awesome!
rainfire
That is a stunning capture!!!
niggle
awesome shot, well captured
Daniel J. McCa...
Super capture! Excellent work, Drec!!
richardj
awesome shots mate…
i’m still waiting for a storm.
hasn’t bloody been one since i got my camera!
drec
26 days of no storm activity over the gold coast(only day was the 1st this year) You’d think with hot and humid conditions something would flare up.
tasadam
I’ve studied your work, and to me this is one of your best!
drec replied
Thanks. Sometimes it’s hard to get the boats to sit still long enough from here. Better prepared for this upcoming season though.