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July 13, 2011 Parker Lightning Show

We were in a Severe Thunderstorm watch this afternoon but as I was chasing all the storms were dead before they got 30 miles east of the foothills, but there was heavy rain, slow moving storms and I knew after dark it would be a great lightning show. I triangulated a great place between a couple of storms and then drove to find a good overlook to the northern storm which was pumping out some great lightning. I had to finally leave once the bolts were a little too close for comfort, but I had a great 30-45 minute session without rain!

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July 6, 2011 Front Range Supercell

Although storms this day didn’t amount to much severe activity, there was some nice looking clouds and I was able to get home early too! Nice after work chase! Pictures were taken near Bennett.

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June 17, 2011 Kit Carson County Supercell

Today was a fun chase. Started off on a cell from Parker to Agate, then a brief stay with a cell over Limon, but decided on tail-end Charlie and hit up the storm near Rush. It became TVS warned as I was intercepting and it looked great! Followed this cell all the way to Cheyenne Wells where it started to tap into the moister air and had to fly south to beat the building core. Great lightning that evening around Hugo too!

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Chase: Denver Lightning July 10, 2009

This was a great night from my little perch east of Larkspur.  This storm had great structure from my location and I set up the camera on tripod taken open exposure shots of the storm.  Meanwhile, I was enjoying the show to my South East (much more lightning but much further away). 

Kristy (my sister) said that was probably the most intense lightning storm she can remembr in Denver.  As I got a lot of open exposure shots from the tripod, I decided to do another experiment with time lapse.

Click here to see the slide show.

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Open Exposure, Stop Motion Lightning

I have been playing with keeping the still camera taking long exposure shots and then animating those sequentually. This day I recorded clouds/lightning about 1/2 way between Burlington and Wray on 385 on June 1, 2009.  The cloud color was outstanding as the sun went down for the evening.   The storm was moving north straight towards me so I ended up getting overrun from the storm and had to put the camera away.

View the Lightning Open Exposure Time Lapse Experiment.

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Larkspur Lightning Sept 7 2009

Was just sitting at home when the sky started to light up to our west.  The lightning was numerous and appeared to be getting close so I set up the tripod on the front porch.  The images were all over-exposed so I had to mess with the aperature until I could get some not-too-bright photos. 

The storm shifted north so I put up the tripod in the back door…no way was I going outside with this storm! 

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Chase: Elbert County Tornados June 15, 2009

What a great day.  Here is a chase log for the tornadic supercell that started in Larkspur!  Saw two tornadoes and followed the storm into Western Kansas. 

Read the June 15, 2009 Elbert County Chase Log

Watch it in HD on YouTube.

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