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Cant always rely on the static Greg, The cell on the far right was dropping bolts out the side of the updraught and from the anvil also for about 5min...
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Yeah, well that's probably true. But, it's usually a good indicator of how severe it is and whether it's worth making the effort in pursuing it. Every decent storm I've chased has sent the AM radio in to overload to the point where I usually end up switching back to FM because it gets annoying haha.

Good work with those floods photos. Was saying to someone the other day, the one image I'll always have stuck in my mind from the fires is the melted alloy from car wheels, I think with the floods it'll be the grass and straw stuck to everything.
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Ok I finally got together the pics from Feb 3rd.

After jumping into the car after work I headed NE to Goornong where I was meeted with this. All the photo's in this were taken within 25min of each other. The rate at which these storms grew was amazing.
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This grabbed my attention first off as it was dropping a few cg's without much precip
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Then my eyes turned to the East where the main band was coming through. It had a small detatched guster on the face of it and looked to be strengthening to the south a little more than I thought.
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Turning around the first celol i saw (second Photo) had turned into this in a matter of minutes.
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It was during the taking of this shot i Heard my Iphone get run over by an 18wheeler after my phone fell out of my pocket without me noticing. :(

Turning back to the main band, the southern side had really taken off and produced a nice wall cloud.
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This is what the radar looked like at this point. I was Standing on the side of the Northern Highway above Bendigo right in the middle of that hole in the radar with cells all around me.
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Another Cell formed up in front of my eyes within minutes and released a deluge in the paddocks 1km to my south
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I then had to race back home and fought my way through some intense rain with trees falling over the road as well. Quite hairy drive which usually takes 20min taking me 50min.
So an expensive 30min chase, but aight. :)
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A couple more from my trip at christmas time down at St Leonards.

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Stunning as always Rikki.
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rikjpool » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:13 pm wrote:
rikjpool wrote:A couple of older photo's that you've all seen, But i wanted to try them in Black and white.... Let me konw what you think.
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I've been meaning to comment on this for ages!

just pure awesomness, did you have a red filter on purchance?
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Thanks guys,
Tiza, thats just a shot i converted to B&W. So no filters used there no. :)
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Fantastic Rikki. I love the b&w too :) Very dramatic
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A couple of Portrait shots I did for a couple of good friends on the weekend. They getting married at the end of may, so took them out on a shoot to get comfy in front of the camera. :) Any tips would be appreciated. And constructive Criticism is more than welcome. :)

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Decided to get the Macro out today in early morning. Haven't had a play for a while...
A couple of Critters first off. :)

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And couple more friendly ones to look at. :)

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A couple more.

6th may Sun Halo.
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And the Boardwalk around the Lake.
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Nice Rikki! Love those macro's...can't wait to get me a macro lense!

The second one in your last post is really nice too...great perspective, really draws you along the lines of the boardwalk...nice work mate!
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May 13th 2011
The day was foggy, wet, and cold. On the road to Seymore, the sun decided to finally peek through and light up the surrounding hills.
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High pressures in winter, mean cold nights, but lovely clear skies as well. :)

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Love your last capture Rik. Some other wonderful pics there since my last comment.
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So do I, it looks even better than the real thing! :P

Do you need to use long exposures to get the stars in the image?
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Sigma 10mm, Canon 50D, ISO 3200, F/4, 30sec
Adobe lightroom to clean a little noise. Otherwise its how it came off the camera. :)
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Nice work Rikki. Been meaning to get out and do some long exposure star shots myself.

What's the light source behind the camera?
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Rikki, that is gob smacking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is there such little noise with such a high ISO, I know you said you denoised it, but man that is awesome. I need DSLR 101 off quite a few of you guys!!

Did you use the car headlights and if so for how long?
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