Boulder County The Book

Livin and Lovin Life in Boulder County Colorado

Milky Way Over The Colorado Indian Peaks

View and reflections from Brainard Lake of the Indian Peaks Wilderness area, in Boulder County Colorado with the Milky Way overhead in the Sky. This is my all time favorite place on the planet. A planned shot for a long time. We were lucky to get clear skies. […]

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Like a Sci-Fi Movie

This image is like it came out of a Sci-Fi movie. Colorado weather with many layers of clouds in the sky and a lightning strike starting in the upper cloud going through and coming out of a lower cloud bank hitting the ground. July 15th, 11:35 pm, Boulder County, Colorado. ISO 500 – f5.6 – 4 sec – 122mm […]

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Lightning Strike Just Outside of Lyons Colorado

This Colorado lightning thunderstorm came in from the northwest over Rocky Mountain National Park and the town of Lyons heading southeast out to Longmont and down to Denver. We were positioned just out of the hard rain and watched it pass us by and stayed dry, my favorite place to be… […]

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Lightning Thunderstorm the BIG and the Small

Very large close lightning bolts striking in the sky with a lightning bolt that appears to be smaller but mighty in the distance of the agriculture farming fields of east Boulder County Colorado. July 15th, 2014 10:53 pm – ISO 500 – f5.6 – 30 sec – 16mm – Canon 6D Full Frame. […]

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Nature – Power and Oil

Lightning striking on the horizon of the eastern Colorado plains with a view of power lines and pumpjack of an oil well. July 7th, 2014, 9:53 pm – Settings – ISO 400 – f 5.6 – 15 sec – 260mm – Canon 7D. […]

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Thunderstorm Combustion

Cloud to cloud lightning thunderstorm combustion striking in the sky over a country lake north east of Longmont Colorado and Boulder County. This is in SW Weld County. Settings ISO 500 – f11 – 30 sec -11 mm. This is 6 images stacked equal to a three minute exposure, makes for very low noise. June 24th, 2014 10:46pm […]

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Oil Well Pumpjack Thunderstorm Panorama

Eastern plains of the Rocky Mountain front range in Weld County, Colorado, view of a pumpjack near the town of Dacona with a massive lightning thunderstorm striking. […]

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Electrical Arcing Sky

Lightning bolts giving off electrical arc’s in a stormy night sky above the Colorado Rocky Mountains foothills in north Boulder County. Scenic landscape view from McIntosh Lake in Longmont. 8/5/2009 one year to the day of my fathers passing. Thanks Dad. ISO 320 -15 sec- f9 – 47mm […]

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Cloudscape Portrait 52

The ever changing clouds at sunset as they started to boil and produce some great lightning and rain. Colorful cloudscape # 52 […]

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Lightning Blues

Lightning thunderstorm striking over McIntosh Lake in Longmont Colorado, Boulder County, hitting the foothills of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. […]

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