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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Genesis of a Tempest

Here's the cell that later on fired up and allowed me one of my best lightning photography sessions I've yet had. I love how you can almost just taste the fantastic amounts of energy pulsing through this system.

Image Notes: 5 frame HDR constructed via Image Fusion in Photomatix. Even the highlights recovery of LR4 made HDR a necessity if I wanted to pull all the highlights detail out of the lit part of the cloud (it took -3 EV to protect highlights adequately in the high dynamic range scene).

Storm Cell Thunderhead Cloudscape Weather Severe Stormy Cumulonimbus Weld Colorado CO Landscape Nature HDR Photomatix NECO Nikon D700 Plains 2012A