Nothing too fancy for this week. I went out a few times to shoot photos but I didn't get anything I was very happy with. This is my favourite of the few I had. Not much to say about it except to take note of the full moon sneaking up behind the trees on the left.
Friday night I went out storm chasing yet again. Actually I wasn't really chasing. I drove out of the city and waited for the storm to show up. I found this random little gas station and hoped to get some lighting. But all I got was a little flash lightning. So this photo isn't as good as I hoped it would be, but its still a good night photo, with the semi-truck passing.
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I shot this photo the night before while trying to get some tail light shots along EC Row here in Windsor. None of my intended photos turned out very good, but I like this one a lot.
I should probably be trying to get some interesting photos of the huge fireworks show going on downtown as I write this, but I just got done work and have to start again early tomorrow. So instead of I'm watching it live on TV.
I already had some photos ready for this blog, but I got some better ones last night. My new favourite thing is driving around the county aimlessly looking for interesting photos. There's not much logic to my process. I try to find the lesser populated roads and explore those.
Although these photos aren't really from empty roads. The first is one I've been meaning to shoot for a while now, the old dock for the Boblo Island ferry that has been abandoned since 1993.
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These next two photos are just off the highway in Maidstone, Ontario. My dad had mentioned this spot to me earlier in the day, and on my aimless drive back from Amherstburg I found myself driving by it. So I stopped and spent quite some time roaming around the field with mosquito's buzzing in my ears.
The above photo is a 6-shot panoramic and the bottom one is a 9-shot. On the second one I walked quite a ways back into the field in order to fit everything in. The road is in the far background. You can see my car parked, dead center.
I have some other good ones from this spot but I just don't have time to process them all right now. Plus I should save some of them for furture use. I think I'm up to about 15 folders of photos I haven't finished editing yet and my computer is out of space.
My lightning photos from Friday night don't compare to what Todd caught, but they're still my personal bests to date. On my way home from work Friday night the lighting really started hitting hard, so with my new car I knew I'd be stopping at home to pick up my camera then speeding out of the city, hopefully to get ahead of the storm so I could get set up somewhere nice and fire off some photos before the rain came.
On my way out of the city the lighting was hitting all around me, non-stop. While stopped at a light out in the county I saw a flash, followed by another bright green flash, out of the corner of my eye. I looked just in time to see sparks showering off a telephone pole and a cloud of black smoke floating into the air. I wanted to investigate further but I didn't see much other than the smoke, and I really wasn't feeling brave enough to get out of the car right there.
So I raced on as bolts hit the farm fields on both sides of me. Unfortunately, by the time I decided to pull over and shoot some photos, the storm had calmed down a lot. I still managed to get a few decent bolts in the distance.
I pretty much spent the whole weekend driving around the county chasing storm clouds and sunsets. The above shot is from somewhere between Harrow and Amherstburg after sunset. This is from Saturday night.
This shot I thought I'd throw in to mix things up. Its from Tuesday night at 13-stair set on Huron Church Road in Windsor. (Yes, he landed it).
This is from Sunday night after a rainstorm. Try to find the rainbow. There was more of it, but by the time I found a place to pull over it was starting to disappear.
One last thing, I thought I'd throw this in here as well. This is a timelapse of the last storm clouds passing over Kingsville, Ontario.
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I pretty much spent the whole weekend driving around the county chasing storm clouds and sunsets. The above shot is from somewhere between Harrow and Amherstburg after sunset. This is from Saturday night.
This shot I thought I'd throw in to mix things up. Its from Tuesday night at 13-stair set on Huron Church Road in Windsor. (Yes, he landed it).
This is from Sunday night after a rainstorm. Try to find the rainbow. There was more of it, but by the time I found a place to pull over it was starting to disappear.