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I feel like my weather pix might be hogging up other threads too much...I also think some other folks might have some cool weather photos they've taken* that they might want to share.
I love doing Weather so much I've become a Certified Storm Spotter and I'm studying Meteorology now.
So all us Weather-geeks maybe need a thread, since it's a pretty cool topic that lotta people seem to be keen on.
Here we go!
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my fave from today.

*As in, no clippings from the internet of other people's work. ;)
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yevangelis
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Aug 14, 2018
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I had to edit the contrast a little to make it more dramatic.
yevangelis
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Aug 14, 2018
Oh and as far as ‘deets’ I just realized that I took that pic the same night and same system as yours (see edited map for location of shot)
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yevangelisThat system was a great deal of fun. Nice lightning.
jetace22
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Aug 14, 2018
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jetace22SUPER! Beauty wall cloud. I really like the nice supercell, it even has a cute little beaver tail that I see there.
Wish we had that flat open-ness over here. It would make seeing these things so much easier! Say something about where and when please, I just want the deets!!! :) Thanks for joining this thread!
jetace22
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Aug 14, 2018
TiffanyPoodleslideTornado pic is Chapman, KS in May of 2016. Structure photo is May of this year in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
This weekend's cool stuff;

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A gorgeous supercell that had a decent wall cloud and produced some local flooding. Had to drive through some decent hail to get in front of it for some keen photo-op.
Another "sparky" *snicker* night;
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The only way to get all the lightning was to video and then scrub for separate strikes. LOTTA scrubbing.
XenoMuse
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Aug 14, 2018
TiffanyPoodleslideLightning photography can be done with a B-trigger and a long delay, or an intervalometer. (If you are using a real camera, these are still extras on the side). Basically, you set up on a tripod with a long exposure to get the background brighter, but not long enough to make it look... Bright. Maybe like 10 seconds. You then trigger it to shut the shutter as soon as you see a lightning strike, or you let the intervalometer just cover the whole time you're set up. Makes for some really great professional lightning photos.
XenoMuseYeah.... I do Bulb photos with my Sony alpha DSLRs and have a remote release. Close the shutter when the lightning goes. I found an app that lets me do kind of the same thing with the iPhone, so I m experimenting with that. Before I found the app, I was doing the video scrub thing. Some storms are so busy that the only way to catch everything is with video anyway. Daylight on Bulb kind of sucks anyway. But I do love my nighttime t-storms!
OMG!!! I made CORE MEMBER!!!!!
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A distant,(15 miles away), mesocyclone supercell blowing its anvil against the setting sun.

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You can see the mammatus rolling off the edge as the anvil shears away from that still-rotating tower. If you look closely, you can see the kind-of "pancake stack" anatomy that the tower becomes because of rotation forces at different levels.
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All-in-all, a very pretty storm. Kind of also proof that you can see these MASSIVE storms better from a distance, much of the time. Maybe 5 miles closer would have been a bit better, but the sunset would not have been as nice. Too close, you stop being safe, as well as not having the best view.
That's super neat. Do natural disasters such as fire and such fall into the bucket of weather? or is it more specifically meteorological photography?
AlexPkWell, wildfires are definitely due to weather, and then, by their actions, create weather. The smoke and haze created by wildfires certainly changes the weather. So, I would say, yes, to fire and volcanoes and the like. Even major seismic events can't be ruled out as having an impact on weather, although it's more limited and subtle, as to the degree of impact something like an earthquake can have. Shoot. Even a big big meteor impact has been known to have a weather outcome.....like, oh, say, that ice age/global debris cloud that killed all the dinosaurs.
BlueCrowned
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Aug 8, 2018
What's going on in your photo?
BlueCrowned
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Aug 8, 2018
Wow that's really interesting!
BlueCrownedYES!!!! It IS!
This is why I love LOVE weather and studying it. It's so.....cool.
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