Category Archives: Weather Photography

Here you will find new weather pictures that I have shared on my site

Grand Skies…

By webmaster | Published March 17, 2013

Here’s a sneak peek at another time lapse video I am working on. This features imagery from Arizona, all of which was shot last summer. I hope to add much more to it, but I thought I would share the sequences that I had so far. All still images were taken between 4 and 8 second intervals and then played back at a 30 frame per second rate.

Arizona Grand Skies from Todd Shoemake on Vimeo.

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Watch the Weather…

By webmaster | Published February 20, 2013

This is a 2 minute video featuring some short time lapse arrangements that I have been shooting over the past couple of months. Most of these were shot around the weather forecast office in Albuquerque, but there was a couple of sequences taken downtown and even some imagery from west Texas (the wind farms). These images were taken every 3, 4, or 8 seconds depending on the cloud movement or other aspect of motion I was trying to capture.

Watch the Weather from Todd Shoemake on Vimeo.

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High Desert Skies Time Lapse

By webmaster | Published July 21, 2012

Here is a compilation of some time lapse photography that I have been shooting over the past several months. All of this was shot with my Nikon D7000, and then post processed in Aperture, QuickTime 7 Pro, and iMovie. The imagery was shot around the Albuquerque, New Mexico area, featuring sunrises, sunsets, lenticular clouds, storms, and general cumulus formation and dissipation.

High Desert Skies: July 15, 2012 from Todd Shoemake on Vimeo.

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high based, outflow dominant…

By webmaster | Published June 2, 2012

I chased around the eastern New Mexico and west Texas border yesterday, hoping to catch some decent structure near the intersection of a warm front and surface low. Unfortunately temperature-dewpoint spreads were just too high over my target area, and the meager moisture made for some high-based storms that struggled to keep any decent structure. One cell did briefly exhibit some rotation and supercellular structure, but a competing cell soon robbed it of its moisture/inflow. This new cell transformed into a high precipitation core, sustaining itself for a while, but visually I was not all that impressed. I watched this cell from a distance, and as weaker, disorganized garden variety convection spread over me, I decided to call it a day. Here are a few of the stills I captured.

Blossoming thunderstorm in far west Texas.

Poor updraft structure with a thunderstorm in far west Texas.

Ragged structure with a thunderstorm in far west Texas.

An HDR image of a storm and updraft base over far west Texas. The storm was quickly turning outflow dominant.

A poorly defined shelf cloud struggles to develop as a storm begins to morph into a High Precipitation Supercell.

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a golden glow…

By webmaster | Published March 20, 2012

This is an HDR image shot on March 9th at the Weather Forecast Office in Albuquerque. There were some altocumulus and altostratus clouds exhibiting a lot of texture, and the low angle of the rising sun showcased them brilliantly. Three exposures were processed in Nik HDR Efex Pro.

A Golden Glow: The low angle of the sun during the morning of March 9, 2012 creates a brilliant display on the underside of altocumulus and altostratus clouds in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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