Post your storms/lightning/wild nature shots here

[JoshBoy]

Sitting in the backyard

Taken in Sydney Australia a few months ago

 

[mtbdudex]

Thanks, and done

xStep is correct, the water was moving very fast so only needed a single exposure of 2 seconds.
Also with the wide angle, movements in the far-away background effect the image less significantly (think of star trails at 12mm vs 100mm )

I like the photo edit also, good suggestion xStep.

This is why forums like ours I really like; learning things here and there that are in the back of your mind.
Then, when you are in the field, and a shot presents itself, you can capture it with learned knowledge.

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What, nobody in the pool?

I grew up in Ohio and one of the things that I miss out here in the Pacific NorthWest are real thunderstorms.

Nice photos.

Dale

Dale - thx.
That's my neighbors pool, their kids are 18 & 21 now, hardly anyone uses their pool anymore. As a kid we had a pool, and I got stuck cleaning it, swore I'd never own a pool....so I got a boat and we go out on that instead

btw, this forum is "smart" when I made one post, and then went to make another, it stitched the 2 together.....cool upgrade

 

[ivanfsg]

Vitosha mountain

 

[Melizard]

I took these photos in 2008 with a really really crappy olympus point and shoot. The photos themselves are terrible, I know, but the amazing fog is something I will never forget. It came in really suddenly, and was literally pouring over the hills. This is from Great Bear Lake in northern Canada, about 50 km south of the arctic circle.


Fog 2 by Melissa.O.Anderson, on Flickr


Fog 1 by Melissa.O.Anderson, on Flickr

 

[Elbert C]

Whiteout

 

[Somepix]

Québec, Summer of 2011



http://www.flickr.com/photos/75007740@N04/6937162389/ http://www.flickr.com/people/75007740@N04/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75007740@N04/6937162461/ http://www.flickr.com/people/75007740@N04/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75007740@N04/6791044446/ http://www.flickr.com/people/75007740@N04/

 

[ndpuckhead]

My first attempt at photographing lightning, taken 10 min. ago. The trees are in the way but I'm not sure if thats a good or bad thing. C&C is welcomed.

IMG_1082 by ndpuckhead, on Flickr


IMG_1081 by ndpuckhead, on Flickr


IMG_1080 by ndpuckhead, on Flickr


IMG_1079 by ndpuckhead, on Flickr

 

[initialsBB]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B176 Safari/7534.48.3)

The trees in front are nice !

 

[mtbdudex]

First storm of the 2014 season, new 70D, this one is handheld on backporch as 40+ mph winds and rain came crashing down.
I went inside right after this strike.

Way too high ISO, as I just got this camera 4 days ago and learning it, was playing with ISO from 100 thru 6400, I think this is 3200 f5.6 and 1/40 sec.
No ryhme/reason for the exposure settings except testing it out.

 

[pilotkid]

Microburst

Here is a picture of a microburst in action. This was taken a few years ago with my Nikon D40x during our "monsoon" season.

[/url]Microburst by ajcantero, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[mtbdudex]

This is a composite of 8 images from storm that hit our campground (Game Lodge) Wednesday July-10-2014 3:07am thru 3:18am at Custer State Park in South Dakota. One of the lightning strikes caused power to be lost for about 1 hour.
I had Canon 70D on tripod with my thumb on remote, and every time I saw a lightning strike I took image.
Camera settings: 1.3 sec exp, 15mm, ISO800, f11.

 

[realitystops]

Cold Aberdeen Light

Like the title says.

 

[Nickwell24]

Taken in Kansas City during a summer storm.