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Awesome pics. The first one is my favourite. The lighting bolt, colours and the mean looking clouds. You guys have had some pretty fierce storms there lately.

Those are some great storm photos Darb! The first lighting is awesome though it looks a bit fat Love the colours.


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I like this one a lot as it looks like an evil stormy eye peering at you...a cloud version of Sauron

Darb, Great shots as always, i often look at your pics just to see what the boys are upto and well life is like 1 big party. Even seen this fella with a pipe too!! LOL Anyhow well done Darb.

Darb,

Great images! First three are my favourites.

Alex

Hey! Darb,

I was 10Ks away up the beach, but I chickened out and had the bourbon instead, well done!!

Love the #1 shot, would you share your settings?.

Andyt

WHOO HOO!!

Darb, these are fantastic! Love the colours, love the bolts....sensational stuff! I'm very envious, can you send some of the storms this way?? It's been pretty wild in Perth lately with storms, flooding rain and waterspouts...you lucky bugger!

Excellent shots! #1 is my fav!

Darb, great stuff there,

The 1st is a kick ass lightining capture

But you are crazy for standing out in such a storm with a metal tripod, but depending on how much Boubon you consumed would have depended on how much you would have felt I suppose if a fork came right down & blew ya out of ya daks.

Great shots.

Mic.

hehehe

re the settings : go to the actual website URL , then open an image and it displays exif data underneath.

all were shot raw, then converted, PP'd, signifigant colour boosting, a few slight crops (to level horizon.)

as for standing on the top of a dune wit a 6ft earthed tripod, with nothing else nearby, taking photos of a fierce electrical storm that has been ripping across the ocean for a few thousand km's, with a raging hard on? ... yes, the bourbon played a part ! hah

myself and two amtes were mindful the whole time, and as it got close, we lost our nerve (read common sense returned.) and went back to the house.

I used IR remote to kick off bulb, then walked about 10 metres away and just stayed away ... not sure if that would actually save my ass should lightning decide to hit, though.

mate i love number 4. awesome colours, and if it were mine i would frame it and put it on a wall

Great Shots

Likewise no 4 does it for me.

Cheers

Great shots as always Darbs.

#1 is my fav. Best shot of the series, really good!
#4, #5, #6 are my second fav.


The rest just don't do it for me. They have some good elements, eg. good captures of lightning. They rest of the composition lets it down eg. happens to be cracking over the neighbours house.

Besides that, keep up the good work. So when are you booked in for the snow trip, that's if the season ever starts

Hey, while you're there try and get a snow capped mountain (preferable with some rocky parts of the mountain exposed) and a full moon. Might make a good shot, and seeing as I have no chance of being near a snow capped mountain any time soon, you might be the person for the job

Interesting shots, darb. The 1st is quite spectacular.

Love em darb..

And by the way, it doesn't matter how much bourbon you've drunk, lightning bloody hurts..trust me, I KNOW!

I was zapped earlier this year and considered myself lucky to walk away from it. My girlfriends parents live in Botswana where they have AMAZING electrical storms and friends of their's were knocked unconscious and kept overnight for observation in hospital (3 kids and a woman).

Sorry to go off on a tangent! Sounds like you were very responsible darb..I get a little jumpy around lightning now!

Mum signing out...

Liam =]

Man, that freaks me out Bettleboy.

I've had horrible dreams about lightning and getting struck by it. Guess that's the downside of workin in the Electrical Industry.

1 and 4

great shots

love the 1st also , the colours are great.

MATT

kipper wrote:Great shots as always Darbs.

#1 is my fav. Best shot of the series, really good!
#4, #5, #6 are my second fav.


The rest just don't do it for me. They have some good elements, eg. good captures of lightning. They rest of the composition lets it down eg. happens to be cracking over the neighbours house.

Besides that, keep up the good work. So when are you booked in for the snow trip, that's if the season ever starts

Hey, while you're there try and get a snow capped mountain (preferable with some rocky parts of the mountain exposed) and a full moon. Might make a good shot, and seeing as I have no chance of being near a snow capped mountain any time soon, you might be the person for the job

I know, we need snow and soon! ... nah, it'll be OK. The usual pre-season panic sets in heading to hotham in august. Then Japan in February hopefully ... Niseko. hopefully.

beetleboy wrote:Love em darb..

And by the way, it doesn't matter how much bourbon you've drunk, lightning bloody hurts..trust me, I KNOW!

I was zapped earlier this year and considered myself lucky to walk away from it. My girlfriends parents live in Botswana where they have AMAZING electrical storms and friends of their's were knocked unconscious and kept overnight for observation in hospital (3 kids and a woman).

Sorry to go off on a tangent! Sounds like you were very responsible darb..I get a little jumpy around lightning now!

Mum signing out...

Liam =]

holy crap

I agree with Dee... 1 & 4 are great shots... wel done mate...

cheers