Lightning photography near Tulsa

Nice little cell produced some good photography opportunities early this morning west of Tulsa. I didn't have my camera settings correct exactly (in my haste to get set up) but it worked. This lightning pic with structure was probably the best of the pictures that I took. Hoping for more weather like this in the future!

Extreme Chase Tours 2016 schedule

After our annual weather retreat, we have received so much interest for our 2016 storm chasing tours its crazy!!! I realize its hard to think about severe weather season and tornadoes but the severe weather season is really just around the corner for many. That being said, we are just now getting back into the swing of things but we have very limited seating on just a few tours and most of the others tours are already filled up. Soooo if you are interested in going on a real storm chasing tour now is thee time to reserve and book your seat! Link to our website below:
www.extremechasetours.com


And remember, if you are a photographer or interested in photography, we offer full photography tours so feel free to check those out by clicking the link below:
https://www.extremechasetours.com/photography-tours.html


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Some new/old pics

Just got done batch processing a few photos....some are "new" and some go all the way back to 2005. Most of these were shot while I was still using the Nikon D50 of course I have upgraded since then to the D80 and I am looking at possibly upgrading to the D300 or even the D3.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PICTURES ARE COPYRIGHT PROTECTED AND WATERMARKED.
PLEASE DO NOT STEAL MY PHOTOS! IF YOU WOULD LIKE ONE JUST SEND MEAN E-MAIL!

Severe weather and flooding!

Finally had a chance to pull the Nikon out tonight an take a few pics of some severe storms that rolled through the Tulsa area tonight. I have not really had a chance to shoot anything due to the tours but tonight I had a few hours to kill and the storms made for a few good pics with all the lightning. I shot the above pic in RAW mode with my Nikon D-80 and an 18-135mm NikKor lense, I love the camera but seldom get to use it enough. The lense is okay but much like any tele it gets a little "dirty" when its wide open at 18mm and it pays to shoot in raw.
The storms(MCS) that went through the area dumped quite a bit of rain with a few places recording almost 5 inches! I plan on going out later today to see if there is any good flooding going on with hopes that I will find something isolated and not anything like what they had in Kansas or around the Springfield area a few days ago.