I've always been a little addicted to storms. They fascinate and scare me at the same time. When I was little I never gave them much thought. Then one year we had a humid summer and storm after storm rolled up the valley and onto the hills where I lived. My neighbour and I were playing on a swing in our carport, totally ignoring what was happening on the weather front. Lightning struck close by and scared the living bejeezus out of me and ever since then I've felt such mixed emotions when storms come through. I'm enthralled and I love the energy and the feelings they invoke in me, but at the same time I'm a little scared, almost wanting to put my head under the pillow!! That same summer lightning hit a dead tree, remnants of Ash Wednesday, and it exploded into shards, all over our block. The thick sword grass at the bottom (we lived on a bush block) was completely flattened. It was an eerie phenomenon to look at.
So today we've had 2 storm fronts roll through. The first I watched from the safety of my spare room window, as I was backing up my music onto my new HDD that replaced the one that carked it. There were a few close strikes of lightning and I had to cross my fingers that we wouldn't lose power, hence mucking up my backing up. The second front came through almost on sunset. I'd been keeping an eye on the B.O.M weather radar and made a snap decision to jump in the car, camera in hand, and head down to the beach. I'm very glad I did as this was one of the more picturesque storm fronts I've seen.
This was the view as I drove towards the beach, luckily it's a 10 minute drive so I knew I had plenty of time.
Isn't it just a lovely sight? The bay was flat and the clouds ominous. All the photos I took required no editing.
A young lass & her dog were exercising on the beach, I hope they got home before it rained!
Noice photies. I wish I had the skill or/and the camera to capture the lightening I saw tonight.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andrew. It's trial and error catching lightning, I've only done it a few times successfully. I'd love to go somewhere tropical and set up my rig & snap some forks!
ReplyDeleteI love it when we get the Summer storms come through... that smell from the intense heat, then the rain... all new and refreshing.
ReplyDeleteThat's probably the ONLY thing I like about summer. ;o)
Great photos...especially love the second one.
There's something eerie yet fascinating about the anvil-shaped clouds that pre-tell a monster storm. Great images, and I loved the pic of Miss Tamika Moo in your previous post :-).
ReplyDeleteLove those shots!
ReplyDeletePretty dramatic photography there, well done you for capturing it. We don't have many destructive storms over here, but we've had a few. One, a few months back, took the roof from a neighbours house, and split two of our trees in the glen. I always need take a walk through the glen the morning after any wild night, to assess the damage (although it's on our land, it has a right of way for walkers, and we are held responsible for making safe any potential danger from falling trees - a complete and costly pain in the arse So I am kinda' torn, I rather like storms, but hate the damage they wreak.
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