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The Great Plains in Pictures
(Just a warning, this is a huge photo post!) The combination of the beauty of the Plains and a new digital camera equals me taking hundreds of photos. It's a little like when I got my first Pentax K1000 back in 1993 and went crazy shooting every object I saw. I have to say I'm really pleased with this new camera. For it not being a mighty DSLR it is definately worth the money spent. My old 4700 would average 15 or so pictures per battery charge, and I'd need three sets of rechargable batteries to get through an storm chase day. This new camera's first set of batteries finally died on Wednesday, the last day of Trip #2. That's 7 days of shooting 120-180 photos per day. During Tuesday's lightning shoot, I had the camera on continuously for over two hours doing time exposures. Even with 180 photos on a single day, I never came close to using up the 1GB card. Talk about major improvements!
So on to the photos. Storm Chasing & Photography's hectic schedule unfortunately does not allow for stopping to shoot all the cool and scenic non-weather sights you see on the Plains, and there are a ton of them. But, here and there you do get a little time.
Classic Plains highway
Near Protection, Kansas
Near Kingfisher, Oklahoma
Kinsley, Kansas
Near Sentinel, Oklahoma
Classic Plains town - Larned, Kansas
Near Spearville, Kansas
Pratt, Kansas
Cumulus in the sky, bugs on the windshield
Kinsley, Kansas
Morning storm in Medford, Oklahoma
Storm Chasing & Photography does this to a new car in 2 years.
Near Sentinel, Oklahoma
Near Sentinel, Oklahoma
Spearville, Kansas
Kinsley, Kansas
Near Offerle, Kansas
Tulsa skyline
Tulsa Sapulpa Union Railway - Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Tiny Wal-Marts are common on the Plains
Time to roll up the windows and turn of the AC. Stockyard near Dodge City, Kansas
Near Kingfisher, Oklahoma
Weatherford, Oklahoma wind farm
Bright trees and sky on the way home along I-44 near St. Louis
Near Medford, Oklahoma
Offerle, Kansas
Near Kingfisher, Oklahoma
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