These images come from what will probably be the last storm of 2010. Actually, there were several storms that moved from west to east across the Rio Grande valley. I ended up running from balcony to balcony trying to get the best shots. This first series was taken facing south. It is always the most difficult, first because it’s quite obstructed with houses, and second there is a streetlight right off the edge of the balcony.
This first set was taken just before I was chased off the porch due to the driving rain.
Changing to the north facing balcony you can see the wide open spaces and the clear view that I have when the storms cooperate and move in over the mountain from the west. This was the best shot of the night and I also think one of the best of the season.
What’s going on here is the time exposure caught two separate strikes, the first was the air to air strike moving from west to east covering a distance of what looks like at least ten to twelve miles. The second strike is the air to ground which is at least a mile long (cloud base is at least a mile above the valley) and looks to be somewhere around five to 7 miles away.
I’ve decided that my grandson has had too little play this year on the web.
In fact, this being year 2, the photo count in my camera is waaaaaaaaaaay down from last year. Perhaps because the changes are so dramatic during year 1, and then we start documenting the more important transitions after that.
Anyway… here he is.
Pre dinner – waiting for the munchies.
Time to play while daddy is grilling – my current project – making MUD!
Big BFun!
The thing I’ve figured out, and my son-in-law has also complained about, is that the kid moves tooooo fast. You press the shutter for the perfect photo… and poof – you missed it.
All that means is that I’ve got to bring out the big gun, the slr to try and get that shutter lag down to zero.
I can touch my nose – can you?
Went to Phoenix on Thursday / Friday but didn’t really have any photo opportunities with the grandchild, hurried as it often is.
Got a great deal at the Hyatt Gainey Ranch, Thanks Bill Schatner, you are one skilled negotiator.
As I spent today doing a bit of this and that, I looked up at the sky around 6:00 and thought that it could possibly be a great night for a sunset. Turns out that the early sunset was obscured by some thick cloud, but then that band of light on the horizon turned a glorious shade of orange.
Sipped my glass of wine until the colors were just too much to forget and I grabbed the memories, this time with the Nikon D100 and the 18-200mm lens.
As we sat and watched we remembered that it was 9/11 and that it’s been 9 years since that terrible day. I don’t like to look at the images, it is too much of a reminder of the chaos that is the world today.
While it’s a mess out there, I find peace in watching the art painted in the late summer sky.
Zooming in of course, makes all the difference.
And the telephoto panorama…
You can view a larger image here.
Still working on seeing just what the capabilities of the new camera are, especially in the area of the zoom and the macro zoom.
The only problem this day is that there were serious winds blowing during the entire time I was trying to shoot – so these are just a placemark among the memories of life.
I seriously don’t think I could have captured exactly what I was seeing with any kind of lens in that wind, but it serves as a great memory of the golden hour in the last gasps of summertime. Soon the sun will have marched too far south to hit my roses in the late evening.
It’s getting close to the end of the evening sun and rose season in my back yard.
Still testing the new camera
The last couple of days have been glorious, almost no humidity, no storms on the horizon, slight evening breezes.
A glass of wine on the balcony tops off the evening as we watch the day slowly turn to night.
Last light….
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