Weather Photography
Weather Photography
Chasing Sunsets
Jan 18th
Lately I’ve continued chasing the skies, in search for wonderful sunsets. I’m continuing to work on my photography, and of course my main focus is still the sky above. It’s nice and fun going after these shots, but I am definitely getting anxious for whats just over 3 months away. Chase season is coming!!
For now, I leave you with some of my best sunset shots.
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The only snow I saw this year, it was nice though!
Lightning Photography Part 4 – Got it!
Dec 30th
This has been great! Yet another small storm pushed through the area tonight and I was ready for it when I went out there. Ready and I got it!
The great thing is, I wasn’t even planning on taking pictures. I saw one flash out the window and not another for 5 minutes or so, but then came a consistency of one every couple of minutes and I had to give it a go. Glad I did!!
**Update - I went back outside for more, and got a couple others, but this one was the best of them.
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Lightning Photography Part 3 – I need more practice!
Dec 23rd
Lately I’ve been taking a lot of photographs, and experimenting with all differnt settings and such. I’ve also been taking pictures of the stars and trying to catch a few meteorites a week ago as I posted. However tonight, we happen to get a nice little thunderstorm roll through the area, and I grabbed my camera and went outside. Insted of choosing my normal settings, I was playing around with it a bit. So of course, my best photo is to bright. Not that it mattered, it was out of focus anyway….ugh! lol. But I still came up with a few decent pictures that I will share.
Meteor Shower
Dec 14th
We all have an obsession for the sky. Of course it usually involves tornadoes or lightning for our obsession. However, for me tonight it involves the meteor shower. I’ve always loved looking up at the stars at night, and especially when meteor showers come along. I always try to watch for at least 2 or 3 hours, and usually sit outside the night before and after it’s peak. Recently I’ve made a strong move into photography, and now have pushed my camera up towards the stars in the sky. So far capturing this one good photo. I’ll be heading back out in hope for some more captures of streaks across the starry night sky!
***Update***
I was able to get a few more shots, some barely in the picture and some not worthy of sharing. I did get this one below that was decent enough even though the camera moved slightly, Bah!
Quick Chase to Clearwater, KS 8/14/2010
Aug 15th
It’s been quiet awhile since I’ve gone storm chasing. The combination of several major events in my life have really prevented me to get out and witness nature’s fury. However, today’s setup allowed me to quickly take the short drive from Wichita to the Clearwater, KS area.
Many readers probably know we typically get storms along a frontal boundary. While this was certainly true on 8/14/2010, I wanted to go a bit more in depth with the meteorology to explain how this particular front developed.
On the evening of August 14, 2010, an upper level trough was situated throughout central Canada which extended into portions of the Northern Plains. As indicated by the 300 mb chart below, an elongated jet stream was present along northern Utah into portions of the great lakes. A weak jet streak was defined in southeastern South Dakota. In relation to Kansas, the general jet circulation provided an area of divergence across the region. This is typically referred to as the right rear jet entrance zone, which nearly always means divergence aloft.
Further downward into the atmosphere, the 500 mb chart also showed the upper level trough with its center located in south central Canada. A key point I More >
Working on Lightning Pictures
Jul 20th
Ever since I ended my chase season, I’ve been waiting for the monsoon season to start up down here in Arizona. It’s finally starting to get a little active and has now given me the opportunity to work on my lightning shots.
Tonight was the first night that I was able to grab the camera and go out to get some shots. The night before had some good lightning, but I wasn’t at home so I couldn’t grab my camera. Tonight however, I just happend to look out the window and see a flash, checked online to see a few spots show up on radar and decided to grab the camera and go. This is what I got tonight. I’m still learning how to do this more properly. It wasn’t the most active lightning storm so I couldn’t test settings as much, but I’m sure I’ll get the opportunity to do more of this in the coming days.
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Oklahoma Tornadoes – Successful Chase Today!
May 11th
Oklahoma Tornadoes – Successful Chase Today!
Today we headed south to Enid as our target area. Thankfully we got there in good time as storms started up early. We went north from Enid where we got ourselves into good position to capture many funnel’s and eventually a couple tornadoes. We where able to keep up with the storm for maybe 20 minutes before it pushed beyond us, we did rather decent considering the storms were moving around 50-60 MPH. Here are a couple of pictures, the rest you can find on our facebook page. Be sure to fan us…”Like” us.
I’ll go more in depth on the day tomorrow. As well as get the tornado video up. Be sure to check back for that!
