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Category Archives: Weather Photography
chasing rainbows…
While I have been exercising my camera some, I have not been regularly updating my new images up on the webpage. Hopefully I will catch up and make some updated posts over the next few weeks. To start, here are a few rainbow shots that I have recently captured while on brief chasing excursions nearby, as well as other shots taken from the weather forecast office in Albuquerque.
A full rainbow observed over Los Lunas, New Mexico on the afternoon of September 15, 2011.
The eastern periphery of a rainbow observed over Los Lunas, New Mexico on the afternoon of September 15, 2011.
A faint rainbow quickly fades as the sun sets west of Albuquerque, New Mexico on September 15, 2011.
The sun rises and illuminates a partial rainbow, arching over the upper air observation shelter at the Weather Forecast Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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monsoon has arrived…
After being teased by only weak showers and thunderstorms thus far this season, I was finally treated to a nice lightning show tonight…and some actual rain! I didn’t even have to leave my property; I just set up the tripod in front of the garage and fired away to my northwest. Most of the strikes were non-stacatto, the most photogenic with the high based thunderstorms out here.
For the next five images I shifted my white balance to a fluorescent setting, and achieved a much more appealing blue tint to my images.
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anvil crawlers…
A little over a week ago I had an impromptu opportunity to take some lightning pictures while on a trip to east Texas. A slow-moving thunderstorm crept north of where we were staying (Pittsburg, TX), and produced a swath of heavy rain and alleged severe wind gusts. The bulk of the rain fell north of our location, and as the storm sluggishly distanced itself from us the backside of the anvil began to illuminate with lightning. Many of the lightning strikes were anvil crawlers, intracloud discharges that seem to “crawl” on the underside of the storm anvil. While they can make decent subject matter for still photography, I think it is more intriguing to watch the live progression of anvil crawlers as they rapidly propagate parallel to the horizon. Anvil crawlers can make some amazing video footage, but I settled for still photos. Here are three of my captures.
Anvil crawlers light up the backside of a thunderstorm in Pittsburg, TX.
An anvil crawler lights up the backside of a thunderstorm in Pittsburg, TX.
An anvil crawler lights up the backside of a thunderstorm in Pittsburg, TX.
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august 23rd lightning…
A spectacular lightning show was on display over the greater Albuquerque area on Monday. I was too busy fiddling with grilling dinner, so I only managed to snag a few shots from the back porch. I missed out on some really great opportunities with the sun setting behind translucent rain shafts among several lightning strikes. Here’s a couple of strikes that I did manage to capture from the back porch shortly after dusk.
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early morning lightning…
These were technically taken on the 5th of August, since it was after midnight. Residual outflow boundaries and perhaps some kind of impulse aloft kept these storms going until just before sunrise. Although there wasn’t much substance with these, they did produce the occasional jaw-dropping cloud to ground strike. Here’s a few of the keepers with the exception of the fourth image…that one was the most photogenic strike of the night, but I was obviously not in focus. DOH!!
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