It's OUT!!!!
http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/us/articles/2007/08/19/a_perfect_storm/I hope this will make you all want to come storm chasing with the pros next spring!!!
www.tempesttours.com
Labels: current events, friends, photography, storm chasing
the Globe is taking the story!
and
they want PHOTOS!!!
I will get paid!
Labels: photography, storm chasing, where I am right now
"Does Not Play Well With Reality"
Martin is submitting my
Macho photo to
Optima Batteries for a testimonial from
Tempest Tours.
Wow. I turned all school-girlish and couldn't stop giggling.
And to think I wanted to get out of photography for a while...
Labels: friends, photography, storm chasing
I can't believe I saw this
Have you ever worked at something for
years and never quite "got it?" And then one day it all comes together and you're sailing away? That's how I feel about digital photography right now. See, I understood film, and I felt much more comfortable with film. But now I have mastered a new skill, the art of digital photography, which is so much different than film. It's a different animal altogether. I stuck with it only because it's so cheap... simply the cost of electricity to charge the battery, and run my desktop PC. (My last developing/printing bill was over $100.) But I never turned out any of those digital images that make one stop and look again. Not like I could with film. And now I feel like I've finally achieved that with digital. I feel like I have mastered an art, AND a science. I still have my reservations about photography, and one's ethical and moral uses of it, where to draw the line with images. I could stare at this all day, though, occasionally blinking and wiping the drool from my chin (I HEART STORMS). I have gained a skill I
never thought I'd acquire. I've forgotten how it feels to accomplish something like this...
Labels: photography, storm chasing
More Postcards From the Edge
Labels: photography, storm chasing
Editing Time
It's crunch time. 10 images for the Globe by monday. I have every image I want culled from the pack for editing and possible submission... all 383 of them. I am currently putting a copy of them in a separate folder in order to narrow my focus to one area of the computer...You see, I originally took more than 1,300 photos on this trip. That's a lot of information I at one time deemed important enough to record. Isn't it amazing what we think is important at the time that we end up tossing later for something better? We are such a fickle sort, we humans.Listening to: Mozart's 9th (in either Austrian or German... it all sounds the same when warbled out like that...)Labels: photography, storm chasing
Boys of Tempest
Labels: photography, storm chasing
And this is what I saw
The watermark is an evil necessity until I get a certificate from the copyright office.
Labels: photography, storm chasing
Take a look
Did a little "shopping" today.
The cat is existing.
The lens is new.
I finally got the 17-40L that I was drooling over the last time I went chasing with Martin. I still cannot believe it was almost half the price it was last summer. And today was the second day they were running an instant rebate on it. Had I bought it earlier this week, I wouldn't have gotten that. Talk about a blessing!!! But I'm loving this lens. The more I'm shooting with it, the happier I am I bought it. I was feeling a tinge of buyer's remorse on my way home (I rarely spend this much at once without feeling guilty, or without actually owing it to begin with) and called my dad. The truth is, I can (and often do) spend this much in little bits without seeing anything as a result. Best to spend it all at once on something I can use over and over.
I feel better already.
Need any weddings shot (or sung at)?
Go ahead and click on the picture to see the full-sized image, which is straight from the body, with no adjustments for contrast or additional sharpening.
*big grin*
Labels: photography, the cat
No trophies today: a chase blog
This is a classic "hook echo" just south of San Antonio. We did not intercept this, but I sure hope no one was hurt. I didn't even see a tornado warning on this storm, and this was a pretty classic cell.
Turned on Mobile Threat Net... This is chasing in the computer age.
A nice break through the clouds... thinks the architect.
This just happens to be how I remember it.
On the side of the road, watching the inflow, feeling the outflow.
On a tornado-warned storm.
This was about as beautiful as it got.
I'm going to go dream about the 17-40L now, thanks.
Labels: photography, storm chasing
Postcards From the Edge
On a personal note, this is where I hope to be this summer.
Less than a quarter of a mile from the base of a tornado.
It's a completely selfish pursuit, and a dangerous one at that. No, no silly Tinman Tornado vehicle. No HiDef recording devices. Just lots of Diet Mountain Dew and bathroom breaks.
And our faithful companion Sven, the NOAA Weather-Bot.
For those of you who have deftly avoided ever watching this video with me (and you know who you are), THIS is the one amazing scene that was worth sitting through the hailstones for.
If you don't believe me, at least look at
this.
Labels: friends, photography, storm chasing
More wedding photography
I can't seem to get more images to load on the blog, so check out
www.dfwphoto.org/gallery/marcia and look under Harris Wedding.
Enjoy!
Labels: photography
I love weddings
I was going to do a 40 mile trek from River Legacy Park to the Gaylord Texan Resort with the Lone Star Cycling Club this morning... until I remembered Friday that I had a wedding to shoot for one of my dearest friends!!!
Her father-in-law shot the formal poses, but I was on hand to do candids and from different angles than what most photographers usually get... mostly from inside the bridesmaid area (no guys allowed, you know).
I think I'm slowly growing my portfolio.
I need to go full-frame.
Labels: friends, photography
Vacation?
The sad fact is that as an architect, and as long as I choose to be protected from the harsh Texas elements, I can NEVER get away from my job. Not unless I choose to live in a cave somewhere, but even then the distribution of forces down the sides of the walls will haunt me in my dreams.
What if I lived in the open prairie? Well, the sky and landscape are all architecture.
How so, you say?
Just read my forthcoming book.
Labels: architecture, photography, storm chasing
Kelvin-Helmholtz
The truth about my cloud obsession is that the thrill doesn't lie in the tornado as much as the supercell that births it.
Here is a picture of a cloud I would give my right arm to see, the Kelvin-Helmholtz wave.
I'd also love to see lenticular clouds, but the KH apparently only lasts a few minutes, caused by a much faster moving layer of air above the cloud. Here are examples of lenticular (lenticular meaning "lense". I really oughtta brush up on my Latin) clouds.
If you want to see more eye candy, follow this link:
http://valuca.funtigo.com/?preview=y&g=25544746&cr=1&rfm=y?coolBy the way, thanks to my chase partner, Jenna Blum, for sending me the link!
Labels: clouds, photography, storm chasing
The watermark is an evil necessity until I get a certificate from the copyright office.
Did a little "shopping" today.
This is a classic "hook echo" just south of San Antonio. We did not intercept this, but I sure hope no one was hurt. I didn't even see a tornado warning on this storm, and this was a pretty classic cell.
On a personal note, this is where I hope to be this summer.
I was going to do a 40 mile trek from River Legacy Park to the Gaylord Texan Resort with the Lone Star Cycling Club this morning... until I remembered Friday that I had a wedding to shoot for one of my dearest friends!!!
