Promo Video for Storm Spectator
Watch the promo video I put together for Storm Spectator, via the site’s nifty embeddable video player. Obviously, I did not take these photos. I just edited it all together.
Posts filed under 'Photography'
Storm Spectator is Online
Storm Spectator is DreamDolphin Media’s latest site. It’s a video and photo upload site for crazy weather enthusiasts.
Western Fun with Mom & Dad
Posted by Steven in Family,Fun,Holidays,Home,Outdoors,Photography,Places on October 18th, 2009 at 10:16am
Mom and Dad visited us this Fall. We did some fun western stuff in Fort Worth plus the Benbrook Cowboy Roundup. We also spent some time by Benbrook Lake and ate good vegan food.
Summer Garden Update
Posted by Steven in Food,Fun,Garden,Holidays,Home,Outdoors,Photography,Places on July 25th, 2009 at 07:15pm
Here are some pics from our garden at this point. We’ve have 300+ tomatoes and we’re starting to get some good cucumbers now. The peppers are few but tasty. Our sunflowers expired. The tallest one was about 9 feet tall. Fun to grow!
God Bless America
Posted by Sudi in Family,Food,Fun,General,Holidays,Outdoors,Photography,Places,Weather on July 8th, 2009 at 09:38pm
We enjoyed an unforgettable 4th of July. Steven got me surprise tickets for a Concert & Fireworks Show at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens. We arrived at 5:30 and stood in line (we actually sat in our lawn chairs under the shade of a huge Magnolia tree) for an hour. At 6:30 the doors were opened. It was a very hot day, but around 7ish, the temperature dropped to a comfortable 97 degrees so the rest of the night was very enjoyable.
Two options for seating were offered, “lawn” or “tables”. Steven “the genious” got us lawn tickets and we got to sit front and center in front of more than 10,000 people. We really had the best seats (grass) in the house. We laid out our old La Jolla beach towels and enjoyed fun snacks and drinks.
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra did the fabulous concert. All patriotic marches and good ol’ American classics like Yankee Doodle Dandy. The grand finale was performed by a soloist, a young soprano who sang God Bless America, a huge flag unfolded in the back as she sang and the spectacular fireworks began. We had the time of our lives. 
The Village of Benbrook
Posted by Steven in Church,Family,General,Holidays,Home,Photography,Places on June 5th, 2009 at 09:57pm
This was taken by Sergeant C. P. Devos of the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 or 1918. Benbrook was a training camp during World War I. There are more old Benbrook pictures from Deseronto Archives on flickr.
Home Storm Chasers II (Video)
We captured enough footage on one day last week to make a whole sequel to Home Storm Chasers. Here it is.
Home Storm Chasers II: 96 Degree Day with Golf Ball Hail and Lightning Striking a Rainbow
Also watch Lightning Storm Video. It shows more of the lightning in slow motion.
Lightning Storm Video
Here’s the evening lightning storm footage I mentioned earlier. The second half is in slow motion. I’ll post another video tomorrow showing a rainbow, hail and part of the neighbor’s roof flying away. It was a day of sweet footage!
Latest Thunderstorm Shots
Here are thunderstorm pictures from late May. The dark sky shots were from a storm that barely clipped us. Amazingly it hardly sprinkled. The later pictures are from the 96 degree day with golf ball size hail and lightning striking a rainbow that I wrote about here. I was so lucky to get that lightning shot. Thank you Sudi-Pie for finding the rainbow or I would have missed both.
Later on in the evening we saw near-continuous horizontal lightning very far away. I took a gig of video. This weekend I’ll edit that to show the lightning branching out in slow motion. I think there will be 3 or 4 really cool sequences.
Vegetable Garden Update
Here are some pictures we took about a week ago. Just try to imagine everything a little bigger. The sunflowers are about half way up the fence as of now. A couple are starting to grow flowers (I think) and the biggest one will probably be near the top of the fence in a week or two. Our radishes are ready, we have about 30 tomatoes, the cucumbers are flowering and some of the peppers are starting to show up. The green onions don’t grow as fast as I thought they would but they are thickening up. Homegrown radishes are spicer than the store bought ones.
