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Lightning, Close to Home
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Lake Placid, NY, as seen from Whiteface Mountain, right before a thunderstorm hit, stranding us at the top for an hour. Fun stuff. Haha ;)
"Ominous" August 2012, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah While not illegal, travel on Utah's clay roads during a storm is highly discouraged by the BLM, NPS, and any other agency with an acronym you can think of. The problem is that the clay turns to an impassable goo when mixed with water. It doesn't matter if you have all wheel drive, four wheel drive or an army tank - you will get stuck. The wet clay acts almost like quicksand. Years ago I tried to walk out in the stuff before attempting to drive my vehicle through. I immediately sank about a foot into the mud and barely got my foot back out. The stuff is just nasty. The image above shows monsoon clouds blocking my only exit as I was leaving Alstrom Point in Lake Powell. I had been primitive camping for two nights on the point hoping to capture some nice shots of the lake with storm clouds. I had the whole place to myself just as I had at Toroweap earlier in the week. I love the feeling of isolation and the sound of absolute silence. I'm not sure why - it's just the way I'm wired. Anyway, now there was the matter of getting back out. Long story short - I made it. Incidentally, the road was washed out the very next day by a flash flood.
"Old Car, Stormy Sky" July 2009, Bodie Ghost Town, California A late afternoon thunderstorm provided the beautiful backdrop to this image. Although I didn't receive any rain in Bodie, I could hear the thunder in the distance off to the west.
"Minarets Sunset" July 2003, Eastern Sierra, California I've been to the Minaret's vista near Mammoth Lakes many times, but this mid-summer sunset is the most spectacular that I've seen. The problem with shooting sunsets in the mountains is that the beautiful cumulonimbus clouds generated by thunderstorms usually dissipate as the air cools in the evening. By the time sunset arrives, the clouds are often just a distant memory. This day was different. I shot this image unfiltered at 8:10pm, just minutes before sunset. The scene made me think of Dante's Inferno, as the sky was ablaze with color. There was a group of about 15 of us witnessing the spectacle, and I could hear "oohs" and "ahhhs" the entire time I worked under the dark cloth of my 4x5 camera.
Lightning, Close to Home
Lightning, Close to Home
Lightning, Close to Home
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