Where did you take your Avatar pic and when?

[Eric Flescher]

I usually am interested in asking where chasers photographed their avatar pic. So I thought a thread would be good for you-all and I to keep up to date with these favorites.

Finally I have something worthy to replace my last avatar pic of the Texas wallcloud and beavertail that Doug Raflik and I saw in 2002.

My new avatar is one of the pics from the Kirksville, tornado 5/13/2009. I like the foreground of this one which gives the photo and the tornado some more perspective. That tornado for us was ever changing and has amazing structure streaming upward. (more at the link with more pics)

Please post where you took yours and date and anything else you want.

thanks

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Mine is from the post-May 13, 2009 era.

 

[Adam Lucio]

I took mine on 6-6-07 while driving north in South Dakota. Just a random scenery shot. I photoshopped Calvin in there after a cap bust months later. Hes thinking "Stupid Cap" although for this year I should put a V2 on his shirt and change it to "Damn Death Ridges"

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Mine is of the Harper County, KS tornado from May 29th, 2004.

 

[Danny Neal]

Mine is of the Pratt, Kansas, tornado on April 14th, 2001.

 

[Terrence Cook]

April 14th, 2006 near Attica, IN.

Beautifully sculpted meso, classic horse shoe base, but no tornado.

Probably the best storm to come through my area during my lifetime.

 

[Skip Talbot]

March 28, 2007 near Edson, KS. I'll change it when I get something better (might be awhile).

 

[Richard Dickson]

September 15th, 2008 at Picacho Peak State Park in Arizona along I-10 at Exit 219. Nice stand of old Saguaro cactus with a good shot of the Crepuscular rays from a monsoon storm, late in the season.

 

[GPhillips]

August 2nd 1996 at St. Francis KS. It was a northwest flow event, with dewpoints in low 70s at GLD. The supercell moved slowly toward the west.

 

[Darin Brunin]

May 29, 2004 - Jamestown, KS

 

[Michael O'Keeffe]

September 16, 2006 F2 Tornado near Salem, SD, my first major tornado intercept.

 

[Susan Strom]

In the town of Maricopa in the Central Deserts August 2008. This night:

 

[Steve Miller TX]

Arnett, OK - May 4, 2007

 

[Robert Rohloff]

May 13, 2009 Central Oklahoma my son's first photo of a tornado......

 

[Tony Laubach]

Canton, Ohio last August... met my childhood idol and the man whose number I have been wearing across Tornado Alley since 2004. Washington Redskins Hall of Fame Wide Receiver, Art Monk.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Pittsburgh, June 26, 2008. Hoping to replace it with a new one this summer.

 

[Connor McCrorey]

I still haven't gotten a picture good enough to be my avatar, hopefully I will by the end of this year!

 

[Laura Duchesne]

May 15, 2009 Pampa, TX supercell. I took three different photos and made a panorama.

 

[David Mikulec]

July 2003, front yard. Powerful convection, fabulous structure albeit stationary. Huge anvil. Went on past dusk. The avatar image was just a quick and sloppy crop job.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Brice tornado (south of Clarendon, TX)
March 28th 2007

 

[Patrick Martin]

May 31, 2007 outside of Liberal KS. The best lightning pic I've personally captured.

 

[Tim Cook]

May 27th, 2008 of a supercell outside Altus, OK.

 

[Tom Dulong]

Mine is from nighttime video captures somewhere near Last Chance, Colorado on 20 April 2005. Lightning revealed what I believe was a funnel cloud about 1/2 way from cloud base to ground. Who knows it that was an actual tornado, since only rabbits and prarie dogs live in that area.

 

[L.B. LaForce]

February 10th 2008, Mustang, OK Tornado from GR2AE...i was about 1000 miles away...

 

[Charles Zmijewski]

I shot my photo (avatar) from my roof, in Reading, PA on July 26.2008. Developing thunderstorm at sunset.