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Recent News January 26, 2012: January 24-25 Badlands Auroras, Amazing Fireball, Star Trails and Wild Sunrise account now up there. January 25, 2012: First off I've been busy and haven't e-mailed a couple people back yet. I will. Drove to Badlands yesterday(450 miles there) for aurora chances, thanks to cloud concerns here and just thinking that'd be a great place to get them. Pretty long story short...got some auroras late, a crazy sunrise, zodiacal light, and a crazy fireball while shooting star trails. The fireball was brighter than any other I've ever seen. Flashing brightly, so much so you could see it flashing off the rock face and ground. It has to be much like those dash cam videos out there, which are highly light sensitive. More or less like those. Anyway I'll do this account before the flooding/sand stuff. But heck, I only got 10 minutes of sleep in the car this morning, before driving all the way back home today, so rather shot. Then tomorrow I have to start the moving process. (napping in car at badlands has nothing to do with the moving to new apt deal lol) So it's likely it might take at least a bit. Here's a couple for now...
Crazy fireball, more about it later.
I'm starting to think the 50mm F1.8 is useless for auroras when used open for its speed. F1.8 just makes a blobby soft mess of the stars, sooooo, I'm not even sure what I'll have that is useful from the auroras. Least when one needs the F1.8 it means the auroras aren't intense anyway. Glad I did one wide angle trail while they were going.
Lot from the crazy sunrise. There's quite a bit of stuff for this account from one trip. Zodiacal light. Pillar. Several star trail shots with lit up badlands rock structures. Fireball. Auroras. Time to sleep for 12 hours now though. You can copy the link location to these and paste them in the browser to see them at 1100 wide instead of this 660 wide deal.
January 12, 2012: I found some crazy 2011 Missouri River Flood sand deposits near the Boyer Chute. I was waiting for a windy day to go back and shoot blowing sand. Yesterday was that day. Gusts over 50mph really blows the stuff around. Eventually snow showers mixed in. What was mostly in the air was sand though. It was the hardest photographic conditions I've ever shot in. I messed around in it for around 4 hours. Probably half a cup up sand somehow found its way into my shoes. Car interior became hands down the most dirty of any car in my life. Very much not good on the eyes as well. What a mess left behind. Hard to comprehend amounts of sand left covering fields.
That is a fence line going across a field. Stuff left behind is that deep.
Same fence line before any snow was mixed in.
This gravel road has a one lane road sign on it and occasional flags because it keeps drifting over with sand. I have a whole lot of images from this. I also have some other flood damage related stuff. Might get some more somewhere. Not sure when I'll make the account for it. I've also shot a lot of eagles lately and some geese.
December 10, 2011: Moon-lit hoar frost account now up here: December 9, 2011 Iowa Flats Moon-lit Fog and Hoar Frost Scenes
December 7, 2011: A night snow scene account now up here: December 4-6, 2011 Blair Nebraska Moon-lit Snow and Trees, Coyotes, and Fog Optics
December 4, 2011: Added an account for the local snow storm yesterday here: December 3, 2011 Blair Nebraska Snow Storm
November 25, 2011: Went ahead and added some images from the 2011 historic Missouri River flooding. Just some local stuff more or less. Here: 2011 Missouri River Historic Flooding
November 13, 2011: I have the new best of dvd done. I will now have just 2 highlight dvd offerings to cover 2000 through 2011 best of chases. The others will be deleted. Here is the new one which has some beasts on it.
Discrete 2008-2011 Best of Chases Video MORE INFO - CLICK HERE I also added a new preview video on youtube for the other best of dvd Instability Released.
Instability Released 2000-2007 Best of Footage MORE INFO - CLICK HERE
October 26, 2011: Accounted added for the blood red aurora surprise display: October 24, 2011 Intensely Red Auroras Over Nebraska September 27, 2011: Just added a moon-lit fog outing I'd been trying for for years now. It can be better, but still a great outing: September 15. 2011 Moon-lit Fog September 8, 2011: Just added a small account: September 5, 2011 Zodiacal Light and Fog Bow August 19, 2011: Tornado southeast of Ewing NE yesterday. Account here: August 18, 2011 Ewing Nebraska Tornado |
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