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Lightning & Storm Photos - Perth Saturday Night

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Postby Nicole on Sun May 22, 2005 9:46 pm

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.
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Postby PiroStitch on Sun May 22, 2005 9:47 pm

Those are some great storm photos Darb! The first lighting is awesome though it looks a bit fat :D 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 ;)
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Postby BBJ on Sun May 22, 2005 9:51 pm

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.
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Postby Alex on Sun May 22, 2005 9:55 pm

Darb,

Great images! First three are my favourites.

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Postby Andyt on Sun May 22, 2005 9:56 pm

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?.

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Postby stormygirl on Sun May 22, 2005 10:05 pm

WHOO HOO!! :shock:

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!
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Postby mic on Sun May 22, 2005 10:07 pm

Darb, great stuff there,

The 1st is a kick ass lightining capture :shock:

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.

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Postby darb on Sun May 22, 2005 10:14 pm

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.
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Postby Thommo on Sun May 22, 2005 10:20 pm

mate i love number 4. awesome colours, and if it were mine i would frame it and put it on a wall
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Postby flyfisher on Sun May 22, 2005 10:40 pm

Great Shots

Likewise no 4 does it for me.

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Postby kipper on Sun May 22, 2005 10:55 pm

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 :)
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Postby KerryPierce on Sun May 22, 2005 11:51 pm

Interesting shots, darb. The 1st is quite spectacular. :)
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Postby beetleboy on Mon May 23, 2005 12:32 am

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!

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Postby kipper on Mon May 23, 2005 12:34 am

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.
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Postby flipfrog on Mon May 23, 2005 5:00 am

1 and 4

great shots :D
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Postby MATT on Mon May 23, 2005 6:27 am

love the 1st also , the colours are great.

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Postby darb on Mon May 23, 2005 9:26 am

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.
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Postby darb on Mon May 23, 2005 9:42 am

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...

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Postby xerubus on Mon May 23, 2005 10:11 am

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

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