Monthly Archives: August 2008

hot summer nights…

Sometimes I am amazed at my ability to kill storms. All I have to do is grab my camera and walk out the door and thunderstorms fall apart. It never fails. Being as this could have been one of my final opportunities for some monsoon lightning, I tried to take some lightning photography tonight. As [...]

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sundog…

One morning last week near the end of a midnight shift, I noticed a sun dog to the east. Sun dogs are optical phenomenon that are formed from a low sun angle (rising or setting sun) combined with transparent cirrus clouds. The tiny ice crystals that compose cirus clouds reflect and refract the incoming sunlight, [...]

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Sunday night lightning…

There was a great lightning show from a slow moving cluster of storms over the south side of Albuquerque tonight. This first shot was a 39 second exposure that I took from the backyard. You can see the lights of a plane streaking across the frame as it departed and turned toward me. The storms [...]

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