Cool Clouds. Let's see them!

[Levina de Ruijter]

A downpour in the American Southwest. Not a tornado or anything like that. But very dramatic!

Some downpour! Looks very dramatic indeed. But good to know it wasn't a tornado.

 

[inphoto]

 

[fotoi]

Central New Mexico

 

[inphoto]

Sigma 400mm f5.6 incompatible with digital EOS cameras

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Sigma 400mm f5.6 incompatible with digital EOS cameras

But you’re using it on a 6D…

Great pic by the way, inphoto!

 

[inphoto]

Ha ha, I put tape on the contacts, so aperture is wide open and uncontrollable and AF is not working. I have no focus confirmation on the 6D either and use the Av mode.
Things are better with R series, with focus peaking.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Tops of distant storm clouds catching the last rays of the setting sun.

 

[fotoi]

American Southwest

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Probably gonna have some storms again tonight. These are the leading edge clouds of a distant thunderstorm, approaching from the southwest. This storm will miss us, gonna stay in Texas. It's the one coming in about 5:00 AM I'm worried about. Got an 80 foot high Hackberry tree just outside our property that it beginning to lean. You can see the roots pushing the ground up on the south side. It won't take much more to push it down. Hopefully the electric company can come trim it down before it falls, since if it falls it will take down power lines.

Looking southwest.

Looking northwest

And looking east.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Probably gonna have some storms again tonight. These are the leading edge clouds of a distant thunderstorm, approaching from the southwest. This storm will miss us, gonna stay in Texas. It's the one coming in about 5:00 AM I'm worried about. Got an 80 foot high Hackberry tree just outside our property that it beginning to lean. You can see the roots pushing the ground up on the south side. It won't take much more to push it down. Hopefully the electric company can come trim it down before it falls, since if it falls it will take down power lines.

Not a good sign. Scary. Fingers crossed it won’t fall or gets trimmed in time.

There was a huge, old tree in the park nearby that was also leaning over and towards the path. With strong winds the thing actually moaned! It was removed. A tree like that can kill a person. Be careful!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

We had a partial solar eclipse a while ago and jut for fun I pointed my iPhone towards it and took some shots. Shooting blind as I couldn’t see anything. Surprisingly I captured it but I also have a few shots where the partially eclipsed sun is present in a different spot. No doubt caused by the triple glass I was shooting through.

The sun up left is blown, but the eclipse - just below the centre, in blue - is visible.

 

[JohnPD]

We had a partial solar eclipse a while ago and jut for fun I pointed my iPhone towards it and took some shots. Shooting blind as I couldn’t see anything. Surprisingly I captured it but I also have a few shots where the partially eclipsed sun is present in a different spot. No doubt caused by the triple glass I was shooting through.

The sun up left is blown, but the eclipse - just below the centre, in blue - is visible.
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Nice. But weird. I wonder how that could've happened.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Nice. But weird. I wonder how that could've happened.

I don't know. It must have had something to do with the double or triple glass windows. But how exactly that would work, no idea.

 

[By-tor]

As the storm passes