Weather and Atmospheric Optics

A collection of photography featuring exciting weather and interesting atmospheric optics I have encountered with my camera.

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Front Range Leviathan

A huge severe-warned cell shows off some explosive convection as it drifts along the Front Range west of Loveland, CO.

Image Notes: To get an idea of how large the storm is, consider that this image is a five-frame pano. Each frame was shot vertically with the Samyang 14 mm, itself an incredibly wide lens. I processed each frame in DXO, corrected distortion/vignetting with PTLens (DXO lacks a profile for the Samy) and merged the frames in Photoshop to construct the pano.

Storm Severe Stormy Clouds Cloud Cloudscape Skyscape Tstorm Thunder Storm Hail Storm Convection Tempest Supercell Cumulonimbus Mountains Rockies Front Range CO Colorado Larimer Nature Landscape Pano Panorama Nikon D700 Thunderhead Storm Chasing