The deluge

[Iansky]

I was out with the GF1 and saw this fast approaching angry downpour, just had to grab the image - I guess it saw me and headed my way, torrential rain, thunder & lightning for about 20min then all gone - fun!

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[Ned]

Sweet photo!

 

[chrism_scotland]

Cracking image!

 

[krugorg]

Cool image Ian! I am curious how visible the rain area was before PP?

 

[nueces snapper]

That would be a lifetime best for me. I should be so fortunate.

 

[Iansky]

Thanks all, the rain was very clearly visible and a clear column - at first I thought it was a Tornado as it looked like a large funnel but it was a continuous column of incessant, heavy rain

 

[ripleys baby]

Thanks all, the rain was very clearly visible and a clear column - at first I thought it was a Tornado as it looked like a large funnel but it was a continuous column of incessant, heavy rain

Birdlip ? Great image btw :smile:

 

[drd1135]

How great is that? All the drama of the surrounding and the downpour right in the middle. You don't often see it that clearly.

 

[nueces snapper]

Thanks all, the rain was very clearly visible and a clear column - at first I thought it was a Tornado as it looked like a large funnel but it was a continuous column of incessant, heavy rain

Reasonably sure that was what is called in weather parlance a micro burst. It is absurdly heavy rain accompanied by a hugely powerful downburst of cold air. They have knocked jet airliners right out of the sky.

 

[994]

Fantastic!

 

[Iansky]

Yes Ripleys Baby - Birdlip, a great place for those wide open vistas and the surrounding hills often create interesting cloud formations / weather.

If it was a "Micro Burst" it was a good one and well worth shooting, also delivered a good downpour and mix of weather when it hit - would not want to be flying through that.

We do have some "interesting weather" here in the UK from time to time and I did not have to burn the image in at all.

 

[s0nus]

Awesome dramatic shot. Really nice balance between the sky and ground and an excellence sense of scale and size. Nice!