Weather Phenomenon

[oldno7]

this would make a great sticky.
I took a couple shot's last night, but the lightning was 20-30 miles away. o.k. results, but nothing spectacular.

[asdf]

Good stuff, I missed out on all the lightning this weekend. Supper sick light show over Utah lake Friday night but I never got the camera out.

[Wild One]

I could add a couple to a Lightning sticky: http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12582

HOWEVER, I've seen others request (and I think it makes sense) that we have a Weather Phenomenom sticky. that is something that everyone, regardless of location, could participate in.

[tmartenst]

Don't have much lightning but I was photographing the sunset on my roof in Sandy once while a nice little lightning storm rolled through. Not safe but I got down for the wost of it. The big one is Bells Canyon lit up.

http://www.purelightimages.com/pics/fs/lightning4.jpg

http://www.purelightimages.com/pics/fs/lightning.jpg

http://www.purelightimages.com/pics/fs/lightning2.jpg

[CarpeyBiggs]

stickied.

[Wild One]

thanks carpey.

now, everyone better start posting up their weather pics...or else :numchucks:

[asdf]

About all I got after taking 200+ shots last night....
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2516/3819793689_9cff506146_b.jpg

[asdf]

From my back yard...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2478/3860898560_d02d89040c_b.jpg

[Udink]

Rainbow with the Book Cliffs in the background

[CarpeyBiggs]

wow udink! helluva shot!

[Scott P]

I hope this isn't too many, but I can never decide which ones to post. :ne_nau: PS, nice rainbow Udink.

Above the clouds after a snowstorm:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/40054.jpg

Looking down on the sunset from 16,500 feet:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/263094.jpg

Giant lenticular cloud over Annapurna:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/47824.jpg

Clouds from my backyard:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/452438.jpg

Rainbow over Split Mountain:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/560628.JPG

Storm breaking up on Castle Peak Colorado:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/189055.jpg

Ice Mountain as seen from Missouri Mountain Colorado:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/469801.JPG

Frosty rocks on the summit of Missouri Mountain Colorado:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/470368.JPG

Me in a blizzard at timberline on Hahns Peak:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/84822.JPG

Jared during the same blizzard:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/84823.JPG

Shielding my face in -80's windchill:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/40311.jpg
Way above the clouds:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/40091.jpg

Cedar Mountain sunset:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/445320.JPG

Mount Epworth sunset:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/531362.JPG

Above the clouds at 19,347 feet:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/263324.jpg

Wading through ice:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/382100.JPG

Giant ice wall:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/263334.jpg

Big storm approaching:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/126887.jpg

Getting buried by volcanic ash:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/360594.jpg

[blueeyes]

Scott I enjoyed them all! Love the first one.

[Sombeech]

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WOW, nice shots.

[oldno7]

I just got the shivers at my kitchen table looking at some of those. Thanks Scott.

[Win]

Scott, those are incredible!!

Here're a couple from last weekend. The fog was above LaVerkin/Toquerville but below the "twist" on the way to Zion.

Win

http://www.fototime.com/1458D084DE6C483/orig.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/B0CFB869824A8BB/orig.jpg

[Cirrus2000]

Cool Win - I love fog. Looks so beautiful.

Couldn't believe the weather report for Moab last week, 1/4 of a mile visibility in freezing fog, temperature -17C (1F). Dang!

[Wild One]

http://inlinethumb25.webshots.com/16408/2195491460101442662S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2195491460101442662jqvjTP)

These are actually rain drops. If you look closely you can see that they look upside down...or is that we always think of them the wrong way....?
http://inlinethumb36.webshots.com/22435/2361110150101442662S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2361110150101442662zMDtYM)

[goofball]

kingston range

[bruce from bryce]

1. Sunset from head of Neon Canyon.
2. Mt Everest from space
3. Saving the important stuff after the flood.
4 & 5. New cloud: Undulus Asperatus

[R]

Approaching thunderstorm, Byng, Oklahoma, summer 2008...

http://myweb.cableone.net/abbysm/pix/approachingstorm01.jpg

[tmartenst]

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[mhambi]

Old pic....Clouds and dust over Geneva demolition.

http://i39.tinypic.com/1607q8p.jpg

[americanhero]

Approaching thunderstorm, Byng, Oklahoma, summer 2008...

http://myweb.cableone.net/abbysm/pix/approachingstorm01.jpg


Outstanding!! What a cloud, wow

[Spooky]

http://roadtrips.darktech.org/photoalbum/main.php?g2_itemId=193

[Spooky]

http://roadtrips.darktech.org/photoalbum/main.php?g2_itemId=187

Thunderstorm approaching Salt Lake City from the north. This was a rotating supercell.

[accadacca]

http://roadtrips.darktech.org/photoalbum/main.php?g2_itemId=187

Thunderstorm approaching Salt Lake City from the north. This was a rotating supercell.
Hotlink?

[Spooky]

Hotlink?

No, it's my own website. I linked it because I didn't have access to my server to upload a jpg. file.

[Spooky]

Here's the photo, vs. the link.

Last year a beautiful, rotating shelf cloud came south towards SLC from Ogden. You can see the rear flanking downdraft in the background, and the front of the storm had rotation that formed a funnel. Unbelievably cool storm.

The link I posted is the entire album, including video of the rotation. :mrgreen:


http://roadtrips.darktech.org/Storms/Jun09/26th/IMGP2670lg.jpg

[oldno7]

Super awesome shot. Thanks for sharing.

[accadacca]

WOW! Yep, very cool shot. Whereabouts was this taken? :popcorn:

[Spooky]

WOW! Yep, very cool shot. Whereabouts was this taken? :popcorn:

Just off Legacy Highway in north Salt Lake.

Here's the video: (Excuse my incessant "Holy cow" moments...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMiUaVTP9Ew&feature=PlayList&p=C459D3BB3232EC6B&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=14

[accadacca]

Very cool! Love those types of storms .:popcorn:

[tmartenst]

The emergency alert system came on the tele and said to stay indoors due to extreme weather and lightning which was my motivation to get the camera out and stay high on the foothills. Not what they meant?


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[asdf]

nice shot.
I tired to get some the other night and pretty much failed.

[Redpb]

nice shot.
I tired to get some the other night and pretty much failed.

Same here. Is it just luck to get the lightning shots?
can you just close everything down and open up the shutter for a second or two at a time?

edit: one more question... have any of you ever fried your camera in a lightning storm? I once fried my Palm in a storm and I wasn't even that close so I am now very cautious about taking my camera out.

[Udink]

Same here. Is it just luck to get the lightning shots?
can you just close everything down and open up the shutter for a second or two at a time?
I've had luck with my point-and-shoot by just setting it up on the tripod, setting the exposure time for 15 seconds, and letting it go. It usually takes several tries, but if lightning strikes while the shutter is open, you can get a pretty good shot. Here's one I got using that method--of course, there was a LOT of lightning that night and it wasn't difficult to catch a strike while the shutter was open.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4653915764_72c13a0850_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/udink/4653915764/)

[tmartenst]

Yep, I actually had the tripod set up short in my truck because it was raining out. It worked fine although the wind was moving the truck a bit so I don't recommend it unless absolutely necessary. It was ISO 100 at f5 and 8 seconds. I actually was handholding a Singh Ray 3 stop neutral density filter to see what the effect would be. It actually didn't change the scene much without it. The lightning bolt happened at the very end of the shot. I got lucky.

[asdf]

I think there is a ton of luck involved, went out last night and got nothing and only saw two strikes.

I normally shoot F5.6-F7 on aperture priority in continuous fire more. When I got this shot the other night it was still pretty light out so the exposure time was .8 of a second.... nothing special.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4678837568_7f54e8045a.jpg

[goofball]

olympic mountains, wa. from hurricane ridge

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[Udink]

Storm rolling in over Huntington Reservoir yesterday afternoon:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TD0mqhQ5a4I/AAAAAAAANYs/TAbUlZNVAZs/IMG_5618.JPG

[Dr. Nebz]

This was on the Wasatch Back while I was hiking watching a typical summer thunderstorm come up the range.

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[Scott Card]

:2thumbs:

[asdf]

awesome AWESOME clouds!

[stefan]

"weather phenomena" photos

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/stormy_skies.html

[LOAH]

Timpanogos 8-4, 5:30am


http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/lordofallhumans/IMGP9853a.jpg


I love a good storm.:gloom:

[accadacca]

Mammatus Clouds - Taken with my iPhone 4

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[LOAH]

Those are sick!:2thumbs:

[ibenick]

Loah - That is an awesome lightning pic... what a fatty bolt.

Acca - I can't believe the iPhone 4 took that picture. Very nice.

[asdf]

I was standing on my porch a few blocks away from Loah shooting the same thing.. pretty intense storm

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4859871977_e5f9b69421_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4860491372_cf4a3353ff_z.jpg

[Don]

Timpanogos 8-4, 5:30am


http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/lordofallhumans/IMGP9853a.jpg


I love a good storm.:gloom:

Dude! Nice shot!! I love that! You should send that one in to the local TV news I bet they would put it on the air.

[LOAH]

Don, I actually did. I sent it to Fox13, but they ended up showing crappy pictures of peoples' vegetables and yards instead. Not sure why.

They have something against lightning?


Summit, those are great! I've got a few more, but not as nice.

[mjn_slc]

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View of Clouds over Wasatch from the "west side"....

[mjn_slc]

I've never seen a full double rainbow in my life...just caught it a few weeks ago looking east at the Wasatch Front from my backyard.

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[ibenick]

Let the double rainbow jokes commence.

But seriously, that is cool. I think that YosemiteBear may well have imploded if his had been that 'full on'.

[JP]

Nice shots :2thumbs:

[trackrunner]

http://www.bogley.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=37429&d=1284573715

OMG Double Rainbow. What does it mean? . . .

Joking aside. Yes nice shot. :2thumbs:

[Scott Card]

I just got knocked out of my chair with the double rainbow rays...owwww.

Please post a warning before you just slam us with the double rainbow. Dude, really....:crazy:

(Nice shot!)

[mjn_slc]

I just got knocked out of my chair with the double rainbow rays...owwww.

Please post a warning before you just slam us with the double rainbow. Dude, really....:crazy:

(Nice shot!)

Hey...I'm just capturing "Strange" weather phenom!

[goofball]

in central nevada

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[americanhero]

here are some shots of really sick clouds I took this summer

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4880179667_f508f9c45e_z.jpg
somewhere between the stateline of Nebraska and South Dakota

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4883410390_6061919647_z.jpg
Rotating Supercell in North Dakota

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4938937271_f7251ed82e_z.jpg
Funnel Cloud

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5015314398_81321bdcb3_z.jpg
Rope Tornado near Belfield, ND

[americanhero]

I also tried to capture some lightning strikes. It was my first attempt, so I'm not sure how to really do it. But I left with a few decent shots that night.
The shots were taken a couple of hours after the tornado hit the Belfield, ND area

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4882805553_a702cf89ca_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4882861557_fda0f71db4_z.jpg

[Philippe]

Hole in the sky (at sunrise at the entrance of Capitol Reef).

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[Philippe]

The most fascinating moment in the wilderness in my entire life : at the edge of a thunderstorm at sunset somewhere in an Indian reservation.

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[Richie]

Yvonne and Philippe the pictures of both of you are incredible.

[americanhero]

Philippe, these shots are simply awesome. :2thumbs: Especially the one with the Mammatus clouds looks totally insane.
And the rainbow above the unique Sandstone formation of Blue Canyon - a perfect capture.

[Philippe]

Thank you Richie and Yvonne.

Unfortunately, the big red capped hoodoo on the left has fallen on the floor.

Philippe

[americanhero]

Thank you Richie and Yvonne.

Unfortunately, the big red capped hoodoo on the left as fallen on the floor.

Philippe

Hi Philippe,

I read about it, really sad.
Hope to get back to the area again in the further future.

[Udink]

Pretty nice storm over Price this evening. I saw this bad boy coming in from the west and should have gotten more shots of it, but I couldn't find my tripod. I finally found it and drove just outside of town as the storm was overhead, and I only got a few shots in before the downpour hit.

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[gnwatts]

Nice one Ed.

[xjblue]

Some from our storm dodging Escalante trip last fall
http://inlinethumb15.webshots.com/19726/2475227830043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2475227830043863621tvMzGF)
intrepidxj shoots the rainbow our first morning
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/xjblue/Photography/Panoramics/Escalante2010_Pan07.jpg

http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/47149/2997609580043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2997609580043863621lgftpn)

http://inlinethumb51.webshots.com/48818/2524539720043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2524539720043863621OwWawh)
Sunrise on day two as a storm is perched to strike

http://inlinethumb02.webshots.com/48065/2334022960043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2334022960043863621YTdPgj)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/xjblue/Photography/Panoramics/Escalante2010_Pan13RA.jpg

storm out over the Escalante drainage
http://inlinethumb10.webshots.com/49609/2792610410043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2792610410043863621bYGEEq)



Fell sunrise the following day
http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/49456/2431933220043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2431933220043863621uZjbrX)

http://inlinethumb10.webshots.com/47433/2723455780043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2723455780043863621yCIASn)

http://inlinethumb48.webshots.com/46511/2620358470043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2620358470043863621IyKSXn)
low clouds roll past 50 mile mountain while distant thunder announce the next storm

time to get off HITR Road right before it closed
http://inlinethumb64.webshots.com/12799/2312560530043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2312560530043863621VsIRYq)

http://inlinethumb30.webshots.com/1117/2338783070043863621S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2338783070043863621IpeQcJ)

[goofball]

rainbow over hamblin mtn., lake mead nra

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[canyoncaptive]

Here is a few pics I took last year when a great summer monsoon hit us. I followed it up to Head of the Rocks near Sheffield Rd.