I almost got killed tonight...

[Skillz]

..but I got some DAMN good shots. :wiggle:



More pictures to come as I go through them, resize them and sign them.

[andyofne]

Originally Posted by Skillz

..but I got some DAMN good shots. :wiggle:



More pictures to come as I go through them, resize them and sign them.

Don't worry. I'll try harder.

[hoser]

Nice pic skittles

[Tempus]

Nice. I love shooting storms.

[Skillz]

Thanks guys! I got about 15 more pretty good shots of the same storm I need to edit and post up.

[Cowboy]

They are nice,how did you almost get killed though looks like you were pretty far away.

[Skillz]

Originally Posted by Cowboy

They are nice,how did you almost get killed though looks like you were pretty far away.

I'll post pics of the closer shots later.

[Cowboy]

Good.They would make nice postcards or something.
I've seen lightning In Arizona that was pretty wild too.

Just be careful.

[Tempus]

This is almost getting killed for a photo

This is looking straight up into a funnel cloud while lying on my back in my old driveway. If you look closely you can see the twist in the cloud.



This is the tornado forming up after it went over me. I think I've posted before that it touched down and made about a twenty three mile stripe across western Wisconsin a few minutes later.

[Skillz]

Post the originals.

While I was out taking shots, lightning was popping all around me. Mostly behind me to the NE and where your seeing the shots, to the S/SE from where I was facing. Few shots did pop down pretty close behind me a few times.



Here is one of the shots where the lightning was so close it just blinded the camera.

Last year, I was in the almost same location but on the other side of the marina (or whats left of it) taking some picture of lightning that I thought was far out. Lightning stuck so close to us (I appeard to hit around 50 yards out) that it burned my retina (spelling) and blinded me for seconds. Needless to say, I jumped in the car for a while.

Wish I still had the exposed picture of the time, but I lost it on a harddrive failure about 2-3 months ago. Learned a valuable lesson that day. :wtc: