Despite not being morning people, motivation wasn't hard to force ourselves out of bed, out of the motel, and out to the photography spot for moments like this on a few consecutive dawns. We shifted uphill from a previous day's shooting spot to view this: the first breaking of the sun's glow across the top of tallest and most spectacular "high rise" in all of the Pacific Northwest, and one of … [Read more...]
The Carhenge Supercell
After nearly giving up on the storm-observing day and unloading our provisions in an Alliance motel room, some storms rolled southeastward off the Black Hills, surfing a gust front from earlier activity. One of these storms erupted into a classic supercell not far north of town, so we decided to head out and take a look. Along the way, as the main updraft's hard towers solidly rolled up into the … [Read more...]
Storm Structure Slopes
Headed N out of Alliance, we made an irresistible but quick stop to shoot the Carhenge Supercell's early mature growth, then settled into a fine observation point, amidst a most pleasing Great Plains landscape of wheat fields bisected by a lonesome gravel road. The storm was becoming outflow-dominant, its unusually straight-sloped flanking line riding atop the rear-flank gust front. The primary … [Read more...]
Willamette Dock
The scene seems so peaceful, so tranquil, the apparent epitome of cool, quiet solitude in the fog, down on the river. Yet from this photo alone, no one could guess that within 50 feet to the left and behind, a group of over a hundred election protestors was holding a vigil beside an illegal bonfire—chanting, singing, smoking assorted stuff, and milling about peacefully, beneath the east end of … [Read more...]
Sunrise Crescent
Seldom do I witness sunrises, especially compared to the bulk of the day-shift civilization, because of being a frequent nighttime worker and either being indoors or asleep at the crack o' dawn. Yet keeping night hours on a day off has its advantages, particularly when staying up to witness a spectacle such as this after an early Thanksgiving day of gratitude, family, friends, good sleep, a … [Read more...]
Half Seen Sun, Soon None
Crepuscular rays blaze beyond the clouds' golden lining, the sunshine's encore appearance fleeting but brilliant, turbulent skies of abandoned storms retreating ever more distant toward the opposite horizon unseen. The routines of life beckon soon, as does the long, hot summer. With this annual metaphor of the last chase day's sundown, almost ritual but never identical, so ends another storm … [Read more...]
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