Very thoughtful words, Darren. And your shot looks magnificent there on the Metafilter page.
But I was looking for a shot of you wearing a PDML hoodie inside your car. <ducks> ;-) On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are in the U.S. you probably have heard that the fatalities in > the most recent round of tornadoes in Oklahoma included three > stormchasers: Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and chase partner of 25 years > Carl Young. I mentioned Tim Samaras on PDML just a week ago, when he > saw twin tornadoes just 4 miles north of my position in Lebanon, > Kansas on Memorial Day. > > Tim led Team Twistex, which engaged in *real* scientific research and > was not simply (like me) a recreational chaser. He was not some yahoo, > who took risks just to get hits on YouTube or his face on television > interviews (although he was highly sought after for his expertise). > > In the wake of the Twistex disaster, a thread appeared on Metafilter > about it. I saw it late, but posted a comment to answer a question > someone had posted (about how much there is to fear from a tornado if > you are in a vehicle). After that, I received a message from a MeFi > moderator asking if they could use one of my images, as they were > making a "Best of Metafilter" post about the Samaras thread. I told > them I would be honored. > > Well that post showed up this morning, and uses a former PESO image. > It also uses part of my comment as the pull quote, and links to both > my full comment and the full thread. I hope you find it interesting > and informative, should you care to read it. > > Stormchasers feel a sort of familial kinship to one another, so the > loss of any one of them would be felt to some degree, but to lose > someone of the caliber of Tim Samaras and his crew is not just a loss > to the family of stormchasers; It is a real loss for tornado (and > lightning) research. > > http://bestof.metafilter.com/2013/06/the-fierce-power-of-tornadoes > > > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
