Mammatus Over Boulder Colorado at sunset, this is a southwest scenic landscape view from east boulder county towards the flatirons. If you look on the horizon there is a small bolt of lightning. […]
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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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You’re welcome Nebraska! These super thunderstorm cells come flying over the Colorado Rocky Mountains and head out east to the plains. A normal spring summer day on the Rocky Mountains foothills is waking up to clear blue skies over the mountains. By 1:00 pm the clouds start rolling in and building over the foothills sometimes by 3:00 to 4:00 […]
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Tuesday June 24th, 2014 the storms keep rolling in every afternoon. This was a good one because it came in right after sunset. There were a ton of cloud to cloud and inter-cloud burst. Not my real favorite to shoot. This is a view of lightning bursting out of a thunderhead cloud above a country lake in Southwest Weld County, south of Meade and Berthoud Colorado. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Happy Independence Day
Happy Independence Day nature’s fire works with the red, white and blue! The United States is the only country with a known birthday. James G. Blaine. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening […]
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The first stop on this storm chase as I am under a massive thunderstorm tidal wave. The sky was lighting up the sky pretty good with big inter-cloud burst. This big massive storm cloud was moving very fast… […]
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The sky was lighting up pretty good with big inter-cloud burst. This was the first stop on my storm chase. Big massive storm clouds moving very fast. At this point the lightning strikes were cloud to cloud and inter- cloud. Here is a good example of the monster thunderstorm above me with the bolt just peeking out the center of the storm. […]
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So here we are on the double yellow lines, with a little light painting to light them up. When that say isolated thunderstorms you can see how this one is “isolated”, with star trails above and around the thunderhead. […]
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