Storm Going for Protection by Brian Barnes StormChase.com
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Storm Going for Protection by

Can you find the tornado in this photograph? Look at the larger image and study the lowering beneath the storm carefully. There is a needle shaped tornado dancing it’s way across a field of grasshoppers and sunflowers in the Kansas prairie near the town of Protection. This is an extremely wide-angle shot, I have “leveled out” some of the distortion created by the fisheye, but not too much as to ruin the shot. I personally love how the inflow band appears to be tracking directly above the highway and leading right into the heart of the spinning dragon of the Great Plains. This storm was truly remarkable and produced several tornadoes for all those who came to watch.

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kansas, landscape, storm, supercell, thunderstorm, tornado, usa

Comments

  • Mardynn
    Mardynnover 4 years ago

    Very Beautiful

  • northernbillsfan
    northernbillsfanover 4 years ago

    Wow…safe tracking

  • Carson Wilcox
    Carson Wilcoxover 4 years ago

    Great shot, I like the road down the right side

  • Arlene Zapata
    Arlene Zapataabout 4 years ago

    The color in this one is amazing,

  • Jeremy  Jones
    Jeremy Jonesover 3 years ago

    Brian,

    Man, I as well love the inflow coming into SC. The back lit anvil is just brillant!!

    I really like the separation in color in the Plates. Too bad you didn’t land a CG strike
    with this shot!!
    I have been chasing for almost 2 years now, in my spare time, and I’m trying to find
    a way to make it my career. I live in Oklahoma city, prime real estate for severe activity.
    I invite you to have a look at my folio here on RB. I have a couple decent tornado shots,
    and a whole slew of Lightning photography.

    Maybe I’ll see you out on the road next season!!

    Jeremy Jones

  • MattGranz
    MattGranzalmost 3 years ago

    Awesome Whole cloud view of tornadic action!!! You’re making me regret not being able to make it to the central plains this Spring… so take more of these pics!!!

  • PhotosByAmanda
    PhotosByAmandaabout 2 years ago

    The color here is incredible…

  • schizomania
    schizomaniaalmost 2 years ago

    These pictures are fantastic