Darren, What to do? Bask in the glory of all the attention. It's well deserved. Excellent photo in a unique situation. Much better than 'F8 and be there'. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to those who recently commented! > > Update: I noticed that I had a favorite from a Flickr user named > "Yahoo! Editorial" and I wondered what that meant. Then I noticed that > I had a couple thousand views and over a 100 Favs over the next couple > of hours (and invitations to post to other Flickr groups). Turns out > that Flickr tweeted a link to this photo. That, in turn, led to > Retweets and Facebook postings - so it will be interesting to see > where this goes... but it is definitely one of the most popular images > I have ever taken. > > I realize that this probably happens to some of you ALL THE TIME, but > I'm not quite sure what to do with all the attention. > : ) > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >> Very dramatic lighting and superb use of the barn in the foreground - >> fantastic! >> >> Mark >> >> >> On 5/27/2013 12:41 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >>> >>> Had a fun little "backyard" chase in Custer County (the county north >>> and west of my home county of Buffalo). I walked out of a hardware >>> store and saw what appeared to be an atom bomb that had gone off to my >>> northwest. I checked radar on my iPad to see how far away it was >>> (distances can be deceiving out here on the plains). To my surprise it >>> wasn't even showing (yet) on radar. As luck would have it it was >>> exactly midway between two radar stations and so (due to the curvature >>> of the earth) had to get very tall before it was seen by either one). >>> As luck would have it, it was only about an hour's drive. When I >>> caught up to it, I found a very pretty little low precipitation (LP) >>> supercell. It was a slow mover and this is what it looked like a >>> couple of hours later, just east of the hamlet of Westerville, >>> Nebraska. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ >>> >>> Hope you enjoy it. >>> >>> -- >>> "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. > > > > -- > "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. -- 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.
