Liners' Photoblog
Twas a stormy day
Posted by Linerberry (Christchurch, New Zealand) on 20 January 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
Yesterdays summer storm. This shot was taken at about 5pm. I could see the storm coming over the sea and had been made aware of it by my friends Tracy and Robert who live inland and to the South. They rang to tell me to put my car in the garage as the hail stones were marble size!!!
There was also a waterspout around Scarbrough/Sumner hill which is very close to me indeed!!! A missed photo opp!
Always thought I would like to be a "Storm Chaser"!
"SILLY TUESDAY ANNOUNCEMENT"
Due to the Festive Season and Folks being busy, and hopefully silly, SILLY TUESDAY will return to full service on the 12th January 2010.
Until then...keep up the Silliness that has become Tuesday and keep thinking Silly thoughts as you take those Christmas and New Year shots!!!
Once again I would like to thank you all for the wonderful Silly Tuesday shots you have posted and to all who have commented.....it wouldn't work without YOU!!!! Thank you:-) from SILLY MAMA xx
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Jean-François from LES ISSAMBRES, France
belle ambiance douce et "dure" à la fois ..... l'attente de l'orage ! j'aime !!!!!!!
20 Jan 2009 5:06am
Maxine from Rangiora, New Zealand
cool, neat capture C, hope your arm is all better?
20 Jan 2009 6:23am
@Maxine: Thanks Max! The arm is getting better with the antibiotics....not nice tho:-(
Alun Lambert from cheshire, United Kingdom
a very nice feeling to this image, nice one
20 Jan 2009 6:41am
Suzanne from Huntington Bch, CA, United States
Beautiful, atmospheric image. Well done.
20 Jan 2009 7:31am
MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany
You're sitting in the first row for weather observations, a great opportunity! :)
20 Jan 2009 9:21am
@MadScientist: Yes indeed...I guess you recognised the view even with all that cloud!!
k@ from Paris, France
Lovely triangle and strong effect since, yes, we can feel it coming !
20 Jan 2009 9:51am
Manuel from Spain
ok!! that's a good photograf!! The gray range tones are awesome!!
20 Jan 2009 10:52am
Lesley from Lincoln, United States
Very nice image, Liners. I wouldn't mind chasing storms if I knew for certain that I'd stay safe. I'd love to capture a tornado, but I'm too chicken!
20 Jan 2009 11:46am
dobbino from Cape Town, South Africa
Perfect capture of the stormy day - looks real miserable out there!
20 Jan 2009 12:07pm
EYES WIDE SHUT from The library of my soul, United Kingdom
Brace for impact! What a magnificent view, moody and menacing and yet so irrisistibly beautiful with the semi silhouettes. A superb photograph. I can't tell you the amount of storms I have actively walked out into during my life. The buzz, the feeling of Mother Natures power makes me feel glad to be alive, and charges my soul.
20 Jan 2009 2:49pm
@EYES WIDE SHUT: I totally agree and thank you for the comment:-)
Inés from Namur, Belgium
Deviner l'horizon laisse la part belle à l'imagination, c'est un cadeau ...
20 Jan 2009 3:57pm
Monique from Koh Samui, Thailand
Looks very impressive and must have been a beautiful sight seeing it coming over the sea as your photo shows.
20 Jan 2009 4:11pm
Jeff from Pembroke Dock, Wales., United Kingdom
"Liner the storm chaser"..Looks like this ones chasing you kidder. ;>))
20 Jan 2009 7:08pm
djedfre from schaumburg, United States
subtle beauty - great capture! did the hail ever arrive?
20 Jan 2009 7:23pm
NarB from Bruxelles, Belgium
Great atmosphere, dreamlike and poetic, I like very much
20 Jan 2009 8:33pm
Judy from Brooksville-Florida,, United States
What a wonderful weather shot ... the eerie greens that precede the storm. You did get the rain coming down also ... well done!
20 Jan 2009 10:06pm
Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom
AH well...... after showing us all those beautiful blue water shots and beaches, and the marvellous views, I had a word with him upstairs.... LOL :)
20 Jan 2009 11:33pm
Helena Paixão from Sintra, Portugal
I don't know how you would be as a storm chacer but I know you are great as a light chacer. You've captured very well the different grades of light in this stormy day.
20 Jan 2009 11:34pm
Denise from Perry, United States
An absolutely beautiful photo, looks full of mystery! Thanks for visiting my site!
21 Jan 2009 2:40am
dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States
just wonderful depth here Liners -- brilliant!
21 Jan 2009 6:39am
A from Kiev, Ukraine
The composition of this is absolutely perfect! The colors also really project the tone of the image.
21 Jan 2009 12:18pm
Kathryn from Warburton, Australia
me too - ever since i saw Twister when i was a kid i have always wanted to be a storm chaser!! it's a cheesy fact i know! maybe we can go storm chasing togther one day in the future Liners!?!? haha it would be great - imagine the images!! when i go to uni next month i'm lucky enough to be able to study atmospheric science too so i guess it a little way there! haha. what a wonderful storm and you are very lucky to have this viewpoint to watch it happen! i like EYES WIDE SHUT's comment about how the power of a storm changes your soul - perfectly put!
we are having a crazy summer storm day here today - there's bushfires, duststorms, thunder and drenching horizontal rain - no waterspout though!
22 Jan 2009 4:47am
@Kathryn: Hay Kathryn, congrats on getting into Uni...though I had no doubt you would be accepted:-)
Yeah!!! Lets go storm chasing together...we would have so much fun and what photos we could get!
Sounds like your course will be great...what is it exactly?
Have fun my friend:-)
Kathryn from Warburton, Australia
yes we will definately have to do that one day!!!! it would be so fun!
With my course I actually went to uni for a 'pre-enrolment' session today - it seems so organised which is such an improvement on the uni that i went to before for my other course (that was a bachelor of arts majoring in literally NOTHING - just filled with random subjects like film, chinese, world religions and lots of photography!) - now this one is going to be a Bachelor of Science - majoring in Geoscience and minoring in Atmospheric Science, with some Astronomy squashed in for variety! cool ey?!?! I am so lucky!!! especially to get a second chance at it all!!
23 Jan 2009 9:13am
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