Andrew Pritchard
EF5
If simply seeing the tornado makes it photogenic, then I guess it goes back to my "what year did more chasers see tornadoes" feel, which gives the award to 2010 easily simply on the number of chasers.
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I agree with Andrew. The list that Skip made has a lot of tornadoes but I would also but into account the chaseability of these events. I mean how many guys chased a waterspout in California. Almost all of 2004's photogenic tornadoes happened on big, obvious setups with the exception of maybe the April 20 Illinois outbreak and a few July Nebraska events. While in 2010 this season has had its share of big, obvious setups (April 22, May 10, May 19) it has also had quite a few less obvious, non traditional setups such as May 31 and August 7 which would have likely gone unchased by most in 2004 compared to 2010 with the rapid increase of chasers and chase tours.
Just some food for thought.
FYI my comparison was based off the list Scott W put up so if those days were deemed the "photogenic" tornadoes of 2004 I thought it would be fun to see what 2010 had in comparison, even if all it had was a "non photogenic" bird fart tornado.
Try looking at it that way. How are you going to judge which year was better without seeing all it had to offer?
I agree that some of the shots posted in my above list are not what you would consider the most photogenic tornadoes. I wasn't going to try and draw a line on what was photogenic and what wasn't so I listed more photos rather than less. I provided a cross section of events so that they could be compared to the other lists. You'll have to dig through them and stack up the best of 2010 against the best of 2004 and make your own judgement.
Edit: I could not find any good pictures of the Hallam, Nebraska tornado. Does anybody know of any good pictures of that tornado?
I like the video that some guy out driving around caught on tape. Pretty photogenic!
http://www.nationalturk.com/en/tornado-destroys-home-caught-on-amateur-camera-in-minnesota-82183456