Absolutely spectacular! Cheers,
frank On 10 September, 2015 10:35:26 AM EDT, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >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... -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
