A massive storm gets ready to unleash its awesome power over an outback road in Western Australia.
A Stormy Summer Night. Canon EOS 20D. Featured In: Extreme Weather, Lightning and Storms, Skyscapes.
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
Tried something a little different for this one. I positioned the headlights from my truck to shine on the road hoping to get some extra light on the land. / This was a 45s exposure.
The last strike for the night! Taken on one side of a valley where 5 roads intersect hence the name Bee Hive…
Late evening in the Southern Mallee. On a country road a rain cloud is unloading what it has collected during the warm day. Lightning flashes can been seen every now and then following the cloud and hitting the ground.
Part of the ‘Red Car Door’ tour at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia.
Pops is a new landmark on theOld Mother Road – Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma. This is the signature 66’ tall pop bottle. Pops has over 45 different root beers and many, many other soda pops… /
Pops on Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma provided this background. / / This is a third in a series.
storm series / / Under a cloud / Storm / Storm2 / Darker parts
Shot a mile or so south of McPherson Kansas… I pulled off the highway and shot for 45 minutes… A reststop I need and an awesome light show.
South of McPherson Kansas
Other than cloning out a reflection, straight from the camera. / South of McPherson Kansas on I-135
Just love the truck. / South of McPherson Kansas Nikon D2X / Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR / Slik Tripod
Another in the series shot south of McPerson Kansas
Massive cloud to ground just south of McPherson Kansas
Captured in Cave Creek, Arizona. Canon 20D. / Thanks for looking. Other lightning photos: / / /
I shot this through the windscreen while i was driving , with the exposure being about 8 seconds. It’s pretty funky.
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we came over the mountain and a good storm was brewing up front.tri-pod and cable release and the right moment.also a grad filter / shutter – 10 seconds / aperture – 6.3 / asa.- 100
I went down to the crossroads, / Fell down on my knees. / Down to the crossroads, / Fell down on my knees. / Asked the Lord above for mercy, / “Take me, if you please.” Excerpt from Robert Johnson”s Crossroad Blues Started with a basic photo of a road and added the storm with a photo of a cloud I took and build on that photo with brushes and blurs and film grain, added photos of a hat, cats,chickens and a house and blended these with the backgrounds, detailed with brushes and layer effects.
a big storm hit here a bit ago. the sky was absolutely amazing. I adjusted the levels and contrast and color a bit to show more of what I saw while out there. Cameras just can’t always capture it just right. I’ll be adding more from this day. This dirt road is quite near my house. I’ll miss this road when we move soon…. I came from near Portland, Oregon and I thought I knew what a storm was. I was wrong. Oklahoma has AMAZING storms and I’ll miss how nervous and excited I get when they come. June 7th 09…. i believe… Nikon D80
This was shot on I-35 near the Billings, Oklahoma area.
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