Storm Chase USA (19/05/06-06/06/06)

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 18/07/2006 17:54

A couple more Lightning shots from our trip.

1 How close was this Cg

2 Lightning, Oaklahoma

Manukau heads obs · Wed 19/07/2006 23:50

they are blow your mind photos there Spwil .....
that first one, how zoomed in is that, or???[/code]

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 20/07/2006 07:25

that first one, how zoomed in is that,

Yes I cropped the photo but the power lines give scale. I had the lens in the sky for Anvil crawlers . It was the Evening after we saw the meso, NW Kansas.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 20/07/2006 07:44

the Q is keep asking myself is, is the strike in front or behind the power lines?
maybe we should have a POLL !
( i lean myself towards being 50m behind them?)

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 20/07/2006 08:06

That strike looks behind the power lines. I'm glad lightning is not interested in striking cars as I think we would have taken a few hits on that trip!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 20/07/2006 19:25

Here's my attemt to get Lightning and a Rainbow in the same photo.
Rainbow ( weak) is on the left side of photo and lightning crawler at the top of the pic.
Location Kansas.

The Rainbow and Lightning had been much better but hard to capture on my SLR Camera, shutter speed less than two sec.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Thu 20/07/2006 19:37

The use of fiters would have been of benifit.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Thu 20/07/2006 23:45

awsome photos there from that trip. some day id like to go on a trip like that to check out some awsome storms like that over there. But anyway sweet as photos. Didnt read much of the writing

to much to read because this is the first time iv seen this topic

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 21/07/2006 00:06

Never really were a bookworm were you mike

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I can stick my head in a book for hours but I can also get outdoors do something to boost my adrenaline.

Will do the USA chase one day just a fact of getting the $$$ for it all.
Cheers
Jason.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Fri 21/07/2006 10:34

Jasestrm wrote:Never really were a bookworm were you mike .
I can stick my head in a book for hours but I can also get outdoors do something to boost my adrenaline.
Will do the USA chase one day just a fact of getting the $$$ for it all.
Cheers
Jason.

well yeah sounds good jman,