A couple of belated storm photos from January 1, 2009. Apparently New Year's day was more exciting than I remembered. According to my camera's date recording at least...

These photos are heavily processed to enhance both colour and contrast. The originals were very, very bright.


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Taken from my workplace last night at about 8pm after the worst of the storm had passed out into Moreton Bay. I probably ought to have used the tripod but I didn't really think of it until too late. I was resting the lens barrel on a ledge to get a steadier result. Shooting details: f/2.8, 1/10th second shutter speed, ISO 800. Canon EOS 400D with a ( Read more... )

Haven't taken any of these for a while; got lucky last night coming home from work, though. The building in the foreground is my apartment complex.


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Brisbane residents might have noticed the electrical storm that swept over the city last night between roughly 11pm and 2am. I suspect even those in the Brisbane morgue would have noticed, in fact. This is one of those occasions where superlatives simply don't cut the mustard, let alone the cheese. Violent, overwhelming, incredibly intense ... it ( Read more... )

Many thanks to Corvar at TORn for setting this little thing up for me. Now I've got somewhere decent to stick photos. You can head directly to it here and check out my not particularly exciting collection of lightning photos, deadly snakes and sunsets. Or head under the cut thing and check out the few I wanted to show off ...In other news, I'm off ( Read more... )