Terrific, both !!! Bulent --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun
2015-09-10 17:35 GMT+03:00 Darren Addy <[email protected]>: > Got off work yesterday to find central Nebraska to be in quite the > supercell environment and had a fun little local chase until about an > hour after sundown. Here are two images from the outing. Both were > taken from essentially the same spot. > > I parked my car at a rest area on eastbound Interstate 80 south of > Grand Island, NE and ran across the 4 lanes of traffic to get some > powerlines out of my shot. Then I found myself too low and the 9-foot > tall cornfield was obscuring my view of the bottom of the storm. > Fortunately, there was an old thick tangled wild grapevine that had > grown around the barb wire fence and fence post that was sturdy enough > for me to stand on that got me high enough to shoot over the tops of > the corn. This is looking almost due north. I opted for a B&W > rendering of that shot: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/20664233023/in/dateposted-public/ > > Returning to my car I saw another cell to the west that was nearly > scraping the ground and was backlit by the setting sun. I ran down the > median towards it to get some artificial lights, from the rest area to > my left, out of the frame. I had to work fast because this whole storm > system was moving rapidly to the southeast. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/21098836120/in/dateposted-public/ > > These were just two of the supercells that were scattered all over > central Nebraska that evening and some produced damaging hail. I > haven't seen it yet, but I'm told that my daughter's car, a newish > little Toyota in Kearney, was totaled by the hail there. > > Today is going to have severe storms nearby again, but this time > powered by a cold front. I hate cold front setups, but depending upon > the timing I may be out again this evening. This is the storm season > that just keeps on giving... > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > 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.
