Again, continually obsessed with the Italian signage and autostrades – and then all of a sudden this landscape just cried out to me. It was so perfect, just the way I like it – sparse, remote, golden and with a hint of industry driving past. I waited, risking a small amount of life and death, waiting for the right vehicle to drive past – could not have asked for anything better as this truck with perfect streamlined graphics appeared matching perfectly with the blue sign and all. I’m done!
Often the storm chasing day ends not with the last glow of the setting sun, but with a photogenic show of pyrotechnics dancing from cloud to cloud and into the ground and lasting well into the night. This strike was captured just a few miles from my home after a long day of driving and looking for marvelous supercells and their awe-inspiring structures. Typically, any isolated cells that form during the day in western Oklahoma will race through the portions of Oklahoma that I call home, I just have to drive back ahead of the racing squall line and on such days will end the hunt with a tripod and a camera on this gravel road. It isn’t a part of my public offered storm chasing tours, but instead just my time to relax, snap shutters and enjoy my favorite hobby – lightning photography. I’ve always hoped for a dead centered strike at the end of this long gravel driveway. So many times I have closed my eyes and envisioned this very shot. Then, one night in 2006 after a long day’s work of hunting down tornadoes I ended my chase day in this fashion, opened the shutter and waited – “bang” – I had it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Be sure to check out my company, StormTours.com. It’s a great opportunity for anyone who wants to chase storms to improve their lightning photography skills and see awe-inspiring photogenic storms. www.stormtours.com AND www.stormchase.com
Misty morning in the middle of nowhere
Fine Art photography. / Photo manipulation. / By Gina Signore / Dahlia House Studios. / Michigan Autumn Road.
I took this pic, while walking my dogs through the woods in the rain. I just couldn’t resist this ‘red carpet’.
autumn colors in the forest
Carved By Nature’s Wrath / The 12 Apostles, Victoria Following a day of torrential rain and gale force winds, the sun shone momentarily, lighting up the moody sky, before plunging the rugged coastline into complete darkness. As night falls, a solitary waterfall is all that remains of the passing storms, returning the much needed rain to the swollen seas of the shipwreck coast. If you would like to purchase any of my art in a larger format, please contact me. Other works by Earthairfire:
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This was taken in Morton National Park just north of Ulladulla on Pointer Gap Road. There is a great lookout at the end, just don’t go when the weather’s like this. /
Many thanks to Geoff Coleman for graciously lending me his lightening bolt to create this image. He hasn’t seen it yet so I hope he likes it! The highway image was taken on our trek across the Nullabor Plain when we moved from WA to Tasmania, on the part where there is not one single bend in the road for 100km’s… or is it 100miles? Oops… I forget, nevermind, I am sure someone will let me know =) It’s a bloody long stretch of straight road anyways ;) Stormchaser I no longer hide under the bed =)
End of the road…or a new journey? / Porthill, Idaho
El Chalten, Argentina ! Taken from the bus just before reaching El Chalten, a small village beside the National Park ” Los Glaciales ”. / The mountain in the background is the famous Fitz Roy ! Please also view… / / . / / .
Subliminal though it may be, Desirée / Glanville speaks through her fantastic / fractal renderings and choice of music. / The Wiz – Ease on down the road, a / combination of fractals created with / Apophysis, is an example of her / music-inspired work. / A late seventies movie follow-up to a smash Broadway hit,The Wiz, / with its updated, urban Wizard of Oz theme, features characters / rising above their background and others’ expectations of them. / “Ease on Down the Road”, Desirée’s subtitle, is their road-trip theme song; sung by the late Michael / Jackson and Diana Ross, playing the scarecrow and Dorothy, respectively. The two joyfully make their / way down the yellow brick road, laughing, stumbling, and dancing, off to see “the Wiz” (the late Richard / Pryor). / Desirée strews our path with pink and yellow flowers and fantasy crystals, through which we see more / worlds. The landscape is draped in a muli-colored veil of dreams. Butterflies hover above, harbingers of / new life. / Dorothy, ultimately tells the Wiz, when he turns to her for help. ”…you’ll never find [what you’re looking / for] in the safety of this room. I tried that all my life. It doesn’t work. There’s a whole world out there. And / you’ll have to begin by letting people see who you really are.” / Is this Desirée’s message? As artists, getting out of that safe zone and letting others know who we really / are is probably where we begin to “ease on down the road”; the ultimate road trip to the pinnacle, where / the art of joy and the joy of art meet. (F.A. Moore- INSIDE SOLO-Oct 2009) featured in SOLO EXHIBITION (Oct 2009) / featured in Digital Abstracts & Patterns 06-10-2009 / featured in The Voyage Of The Surrealists 02-02-2009 / featured in The Feature Fraternity 01-31-2009 / featured in Unconvential Artistry 01-22-2009 / featured in Fractal frenzy 01-23-2009 / / / Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to know, he went that way. / / Alice: Who did? Cheshire Cat: The White Rabbit. / / Alice: He did? Cheshire Cat: He did what? Alice: Went that way. Cheshire Cat: Who did? Alice: The White Rabbit. Cheshire Cat: What rabbit? a combination of Fractals created with Apophysis
Taken at le Parc Wilson,a beautiful provincial parc in Saint-Jerome,Quebec,Canada. / Autumn scene with processing taken with a D 200 from Nikon / /
2009 CANON EOS 400D featured in / DSLR Users Only on 07/09 / That One Great Shot on 08/09 / Imaginative Realism on 08/09 / Your Magic Place on 08/09 / Live, Love, Dream on 08/09 / Color Me a Rainbow on 08/09 Rebubble Home:Featured Art & Photography on 08/09 challenge winner 3rd place in / Color Me a Rainbow (Purple-Closed for Features) sold on 24.08.09 /
The Moulton Barn, Mormon Row, Teton National Park, Jackson, Wyoming, USA. I got up early for this one, I had travelled thousands of miles to see it, had only one morning to get my shot in the bag – and what did I find ? / A film crew shooting an advert ! Along with a battalion of other photographers, I was champing at the ‘bit’, since we weren’t allowed to shoot in case we captured the models – male and female – the whole darned thing was so artificial !! So, when there was a lull in shooting, I crept under a bush and hastily ‘snapped’ my shot. Maybe I should pursue a career in the ‘Paparazzi ??!!! Shot on my Canon EOS 40D with polarising filter attached, mounted very hastily on my tripod, Canon efs 18-55mm lens set at 45mm, underexposed by half a stop, f 27, 1/20 sec, auto wb, iso 100, RAW file developed as much as possible in Adobe Camera Raw, then in PS CS3, selective Levels/Curves, saturation of colours achieved with LAB colour, then the tiniest amount of Orton applied, to ‘pop’ the textures of the wood and grass. FEATURED IN / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/dimensions / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/the-women-photographer / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/mountains-and-light / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/style-class-elegance / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/rebel-group / / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/postcard-style SEE MORE OF MY USA SET HERE …
Autumn scene….This shot was taken driving near my home at a place named “Le Lac en Coeur”(means a lake with the shape of a heart),Saint-Hippolyte,Quebec,Canada.It was foggy and rainy that day. / Nikon D 200 / /
Spent a week last summer with my family on the Great Ocean Road. Really struggled with poor light until sunset on the last day. Did you catch that sunset Dad, my daughter, Sarah asked….......Hell Yeah.
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