Cloudscapes - Cloud images photographed by Dick Locke

If you like these, check out 6/21/03 Sunset Clouds and Cloudage (Clouds through telescope)

Post-Sunset Ultra-Wide Cloudscape
There was a heck of a storm to the south of us. I popped outside just after sunset and saw this spectacular sky. I had a digital camera picture up on this site previously. That one is now at the end of this sequence. The top three pictures on this page all used my Nikon N90s camera, Kodak E200 film, Tokina AT-X 17mm f3.5 AF 17 Aspherical lens. Above: 1/100sec exposure @ f8, aperture priority, center-weighted meter. Photoshop.

As above, but processed in Photoshop to show detail at the expense of a bit of grain. Which do you prefer?

Cloud Detail
1/200, f3.5, matrix metered aperture priority. I bracketed my shots, but liked the ones where the camera chose the exposure best.

Above: 1/650 sec. @ f2.8, digital. This was shot at the equivalent of 35mm focal length, which is a medium-wide. This is as wide as most consumer digicams can get (though the Nikon 5700 gets wider as I recall).

Above clouds from Saturday Night 6/14/03.

See more clouds: Cloudage (Clouds through telescope) & Threatening Sky (last couple of photos on the linked page)

Left: Multiple Lightning Strikes above Tampa Bay. Right:: Single Lightning Stroke above Tampa Bay

Above: Rain Storm over Blue Mountain in Fort Davis, TX.

Crepuscular Rays through Clouds
Update June, 2003: Finally figured out what the name of this was via a photo in Astronomy magazine.
This was taken the day of the partial eclipse in 2002. Unfortunately, the sun was too low in the sky for me to shoot the eclipse. However, as is often the case in photography, I took this nice shot instead of the shot I set out for.

Unless noted, above images all taken within a few minutes from my home in The Woodlands, TX