Stormy Weather
Apr 20, 2012 16:35:46 #
I was fortunate enough (serendipitously) to be in the right place at the right time on this shot, taken south of St. Louis, Missouri (Arnold), USA with a $5 throwaway camera from Walmart. Driving North, I noticed that I was being overtaken by a fast-moving front; I hurriedly opened the camera, took a shot of the clouds boiling directly above me, glanced to the passenger side of my car, hurriedly rewound, threw my arm out the window and snapped this shot. July 1997. Couldn't have had a better framing than if I had used a DSLR on a tripod in a stationary position! Serendipity happens...with me, it's a way of life.
TORNADO
Apr 20, 2012 17:46:14 #
Very Nice Shot! Looks like you were far enough away too or at least I hope.
Apr 20, 2012 18:06:52 #
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Apr 20, 2012 18:36:44 #
Welcome to UHH. Nice shot, I grew up in Farmington about 45 miles below Arnold. Glad you were not hurt.
Apr 21, 2012 07:46:18 #
Did you have that WallMart camera with you a couple of weeks ago when those storms came through Dallas?
Apr 21, 2012 07:49:23 #
photo guy wrote:
Very Nice Shot! Looks like you were far enough away too or at least I hope.
A storm spotter likely got a few pictures of his own in the Wisconsin storms that followed those ten in Dallas.
Apr 21, 2012 23:51:55 #
Apr 21, 2012 23:57:51 #
Wes wrote:
A storm spotter likely got a few pictures of his own in the Wisconsin storms that followed those ten in Dallas.
photo guy wrote:
Very Nice Shot! Looks like you were far enough away too or at least I hope.
A storm spotter likely got a few pictures of his own in the Wisconsin storms that followed those ten in Dallas.
We got lucky as we didn't get very much of that bad weather. Minnesota got it instead.
Apr 22, 2012 22:21:02 #
WOW!!!! I've chased storms for years and never have I come up with a shot like that!!! You were definately in the right spot at the right time. Good work!!
Apr 27, 2012 01:17:42 #
Wes, unfortunately, my wife and I were huddled in the safest area of the house when the radar showed one tracking our way...it hit about 3 miles from us. Never got a shot.
My wife has a new Sony NEX-5N and I will use it next time...maybe. I do not like to be in the path of a tornado (in Illinois, many of us at Valmeyer's little campground at Moredock Lake on more than one occasion drove our motorhomes into the huge limestone caves there, now abandoned. One went right over our heads but we were safe. (Whew.) Takes 5 minutes to unplug, drive the mile to the entrance.
My wife has a new Sony NEX-5N and I will use it next time...maybe. I do not like to be in the path of a tornado (in Illinois, many of us at Valmeyer's little campground at Moredock Lake on more than one occasion drove our motorhomes into the huge limestone caves there, now abandoned. One went right over our heads but we were safe. (Whew.) Takes 5 minutes to unplug, drive the mile to the entrance.
May 21, 2012 14:49:09 #
Wes wrote:
A storm spotter likely got a few pictures of his own in the Wisconsin storms that followed those ten in Dallas.
photo guy wrote:
Very Nice Shot! Looks like you were far enough away too or at least I hope.
A storm spotter likely got a few pictures of his own in the Wisconsin storms that followed those ten in Dallas.
Correction: NINETEEN in Dallas/suburbs/immediate area. That was a rough night, but not as rough as the SINGLE one in Joplin, MO. Wow. They are nothing to be messed with, those tornadoes.
May 21, 2012 23:52:12 #
I shot this last week outside of where I work because I thought this looked like a real threat. It was just another strong storm...
May 22, 2012 00:17:11 #
suntomoon wrote:
I shot this last week outside of where I work because I thought this looked like a real threat. It was just another strong storm...
Looks ominous. Glad it wasn't a tornado.
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