Saturday, April 18, 2009

Day Sixty Six

We had some pretty heavy thunderstorms pass by tonight.... 385 pictures later, here's the few I've chosen to post. Just checked the rain gauge, and we got 2" of rain in 1 hour.

Sorry, the horizon line is slightly crooked, these were hand-held and it was quite windy too!


First photo (top, above) is right before the flash lightning,
the next photo (bottom, above) shows the flash lightning to the left.

It's getting darker (after 8:00 p.m.), the clouds are getting
more ominous, and there's some more flash lightning,
lower right in this photo (above).

There was another lightning flash that lit up the landscape,
but the lightning itself is not visible in this photo.
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15 comments:

  1. bentonflockeApril 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM

    so heavy the thunderstorm was ... for you... so wonderful are the shots of it!!

    Great natural spectacle!

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  2. malApril 19, 2009 at 3:46 AM

    They are great shots. When I take a heap of shots to get one or two good ones, I can never work out which I think is the one I want!

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  3. Robert HillApril 19, 2009 at 5:11 AM

    I like the crooked horizon - makes me want to sit down - wait, I am stting down.

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  4. aurbieApril 19, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    I guess you know I like tilted photos.

    Nice skies. We need to do a sky assignment one week.

    Great pics. I like the all.

    Have a good Sunday!

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  5. ChristinaApril 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM

    I'm enjoying the weekend thunderstorms! Great photos from your part of the world!

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  6. Cindy Beck, authorApril 19, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    Awesome shots! You deserve a cup of hot chocolate for braving the weather to get the shots.

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  7. Elisabeth's bright sideApril 19, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    This is really dramatic! I really like the shots, it's so difficult to capture the lightning and so easy to be left with a few hundred photos to discard :)

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  8. jaseincaseApril 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    beautiful shots

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  9. ddApril 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    Very cool shots! And 385 in total!?! You were mighty brave to stay out in the lightening for that long!!

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  10. mommiebarbApril 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM

    Really good pics - you got some grandpa in you! Such patience!

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  11. MariApril 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM

    Those are great sky shots!

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  12. JanieApril 20, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    Great pictures. Those flashes of light are impressive.

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  13. RachelApril 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM

    Incredible shots of the storms rolling in. Nice job.

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  14. Lucy CorranderApril 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    I keep on saying the same thing, I realise that, but I do continure to be awestruck by the size and fearfulness of your landscape.

    Lucy

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  15. Far Side of FiftyApril 23, 2009 at 8:14 PM

    Stormy lookin there, Ed has some tips up about capturing lightening.. I have never tried it..but with this new camera I might give it a shot..but we have had no storms or even rain drops..getting real dry here:(

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I love all your comments, thank you!

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