Aerial photography and chasing?

[Jeff Wear]

Originally posted by Scott Olson
Has anyone used natural elevations to take pictures of storms (mountains, skyscrapers,etc.) Looking on lower elevations.

On 5/20/2002 a photographer in CA got a picture of a distant tornado over the San Joaquin Valley floor from the Sierra Nevada foothills.....

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/hnx/newslet/summer...r02/tornado.jpg

 

[mark humpage]

Well one of advantages of visiting the US each year is that you get the opportunity to grab these on the fly in/out.

[Broken External Image]:http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/Thunderstorms/photos/Atlantic view.jpg

It certainly helps neutralise the vast amounts of dosh we Brit chasers spend each year comin to see ya, but worth every penny

Mark

 

[Thomas Loades]

Originally posted by mark humpage
[Broken External Image]:http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/Thunderstorms/photos/Atlantic view.jpg

:-b. . . Damn I need to fly more. What a photo op!

That reminds me of a set of stereo pictures that have appeared in Clouds Of The World and some other books; they were taken by an astronaut in a Mercury capsule ca. 1962 and show a towering cu near the Bahamas that has a waterspout emerging from it (although I can't see it myself ). Makes me wonder if there are more pictures like that from the time.