The skies were awesome last night. I tried to get to a place to take pictures where I didn't have to worry about power lines, but I ran out of time. The colors changed so fast, so I just pulled over behind a liquor store. I got pictures of a rainbow, too, but they didn't turn out. BUT, check out The Hayes' blog. They got some good shots of it!
This was a fast-moving storm. The clouds looked scary, but they were moving in one direction, so I wasn't that scared. It dumped a good amount of rain on us, but then the sun peeked out later on.
I couldn't take pictures fast enough this evening. The skies were beautiful and they changed so fast!
There was a Tornado Warning issued in our area last night. We were on our way home from car shopping and we made a pitstop at Walmart off Rufe Snow. We were there for about five minutes when we started hearing banging on the metal roof of the store. At first we were puzzled because it was so loud and not frequent enough to be hail. Then it really started hailing. There was an announcement on the overhead speaker, which we couldn't understand, and we saw a bunch of people head to the front of the store. So, we thought that was where we were supposed to go. Rob sent me to go see how big the hail stones were. I got a glimpse of a shattered hail stone, and the shards were big! Then I saw a stone hit on a grassy area, and it was larger than golfball size! Yikes!
We made our way to the middle of the store to continue our shopping (for some reason we weren't very worried) and found a bunch of people gathered there. Apparently that's were we were supposed to go in the first place. They had the radios turned up and we were listeneing to the weather reports. A tornado had been spotted about a mile from us. Yikes again!
When things cleared up, and we were finished with our shopping, we headed home. The skies were beautiful! I couldn't wait to get home and grab my camera and get some shots! I know the Lord blessed us yesterday. We didn't really need to stop at Walmart. The things we bought could have been bought at another time. We were definitely being watched over!
What a great opportunity to get pictures!
While I am pleased with how these turned out, I noticed that some are pixellated (is that a word?). I think what happened is during editing, I lightened the pictures and it made it kinda grainy. Next time I'm taking the tripod and leaving the shutter open for longer amounts of time to get as much light as I can. See, I'm learning stuff!
I didn't use the flash in the first three photos. I used a slower shutter speed and I think it makes the water look like cotton candy.
I used the flash in these last photos. I know, I know, Pioneer Woman doesn't use flash in her photography, but doesn't it look so COOL?
