Kansas Isaac

Gallery: LandscapePosted September 12, 2012137 views7 comments

Photo was taken NW of Topeka, Kansas as Hurricane Isacc's west edge brushed or locale.
The eerie light prevailed at dusk I presume due to humidity. I took a lot of shots including a double rainbow and many clouds, most under an umbrella as a light rain fell.
The storm moved out basically by the next day. I did get some neat almost-blue-moon shots the next morning as clouds swirled in counterclockwise fashion on the storm's remaining edge. The moon would appear then go behind the thin line of clouds.
Nikon D700, various lenses including most with 14-14 Nikkor f/2.8

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on September 12, 2012 at 10:25 AM

Freak of Nature. Well seen.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on September 12, 2012 at 10:29 AM

Very nice prairie double rainbow aided by the sunlight on the foreground hill.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on September 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM

Beautiful double rainbow and some excellent light on the grass. Nice image

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Comment posted by Larry Fischer on September 12, 2012 at 11:05 AM

This was another shot of the double:

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on September 12, 2012 at 2:05 PM

Never seen such a double rainbow

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on September 15, 2012 at 2:46 PM

Hey Larry, great to see a post from you. These are always special to witness and capture and both images are wonderful and capture the passing storms of the prairie well. I don't know if it's me, but the first one seems to be a little on the yellow side - but then I wasn't there and the conditions and atmosphere could have been that way. No biggie though. The double rainbow is awesome.

Lon

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Comment posted by Larry Fischer on September 16, 2012 at 10:13 AM

Hi Lon,
Actually the first photo, the yellowish one, was more the the normal color although my processing might have skewed it the wrong way.
As such, I thought I could bring out the rainbow more in the second photo so I processed it as such.
The sun was setting and the humidity was very high. The humidity associated with the hurricane I believe created the "light".
This was taken with an umbrella over me and camera.
Thanks for the time to comment.
the fisch

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