Three views of the same storm
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 7.4.2009, 2:28 p.m.
Ropesville, Texas
photographed 7.4.2009, 2:36 p.m.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 7.4.2009, 2:54 p.m.
I love thunderstorms, and here’s why.
The land’s so flat you can see them building up out to the west.
The drama in the ever-shifting clouds.
The lightning – the kind that lights up the clouds from within, and the kind that makes those long jagged slashes to the ground.
The way the air smells when the storm’s near.
The sound of thunder.
The damp-earth smell of the first few raindrops.
The urgency of the rain, when it’s falling so hard that it’s noisy.
Oh, and you can take pictures of them.
Posted on November 11, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, hockley county, hockley county texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas, thunderstorms. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
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It’s hard to pick a favorite but if I had to it would be the last photo. There is just something about a beautiful sky as the main subject.
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Seeing this kind of storm, way off to the west (usually) always makes me happy!
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I like them all too. The top one, as a cloud photo, wins hands down since the cloud is so great. But I also like the last one with just that one pole for attaching the sky to the ground.
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That last shot was unusable for a long time – because I’d shot it with a wide angle lens, making that pole REALLY lean in. But now that I’ve learned to repair that little problem…..
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It worked out well, what a pleasure to be able to resuscitate an old image, rather than delete it.
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…which is whyI have approximately one billion photos saved…
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I love storms so long as I’m inside and roofs are chopping people’s heads off.
There’s no storm but it’s raining here in Sydney at the moment and I’m tucked away indoors with no need to venture outside, drinking coffee, blogging and enjoying the sound of the rain falling.
The top image is my favourite, Melinda; those clouds are beautiful and I really like the echoing tree.
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Inside during a rain storm + coffee + blogging sounds like a pretty good day!
Also “the echoing tree” sounds like a book of poetry.
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Haha! Oops! So long as roofs are NOT chopping people’s heads off!
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I am SO GLAD you corrected that first comment – I was a little scared when I read it!
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The top one is such a perfect anvil cloud. I live in Texas too, and I love watching storms come in.
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Ahh…storms! Our drought’s gone on so long that these shots from 2009 were probably about the last time I got to see a really good storm coming in.
(Thanks for mentioning that you live in Texas. I like knowing that!)
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Oh Wow! What a set! The clouds are so beautifully lit. Of the three I think i would have to go with the first – there’s something about the way that upper cloud is mushrooming out that speaks of the power in that storm cloud. Great series, Melinda
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Thank you, Andy. I love watching those storms build up. From my house, they are not that easy to see, but we have a place out in the country which has open views for 360 degrees. One of our favorite things is to sit out at night and watch the storms approach – the lightning is especially dramatic. Not the cloud-to-ground kind (until the storm is very close), but the kind that lights up the inside of the clouds.
Our drought’s gone on so long that it’s been a while since we’ve had much in the way of storms like this; I am anxious for their return.
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