Hey Mr. Twister! - a photo on Flickriver

Hey Mr. Twister!

I left the house today at 5:30AM to hike out to More Mesa beach to shoot the sunrise. As it turned out, excessive cloudiness on the horizon wiped out and color for the sunrise and it was kind of a bust. I did end up with some shots that I'm still processing.
The news of the day is this Cold-air funnel cloud that I was lucky enough to witness. As I was climbing the stairs back up to the bluff top, some walkers asked me if I saw the "Twister"...What!!
"Oh yeah, over there behind the trees" Sure enough I moved over behind the big Eucalyptus trees and there it was large as life. I was about a mile away and was lucky to have changed to my 80-400mm in prep for shooting some of the Bird-life up on the mesa. The whole thing only lasted about 2 minutes as it lost strength over land. I wish I had time to throw on a polarizer. One my contacts, Barry Rowan also got a few shots. Here is another shot from Bo Criss.

More Mesa, Santa Barbara, CA

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Taken in: United States / California / Goleta (show map)

Taken on: March 6, 2010

Tags:

Funnel Cloud

Water Spout

Twister

Cold-air funnel cloud

Pacific Ocean

Pacific

Ocean

Weather

Wild Weather

Funnel

Cloud

Clouds

Spring Weather

Unstable Weather

UCSB

Santa Barbara

Goleta

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Sets appears in: • Landscapes • Beach and shorline more » • Most Interesting (per Dopiaza) « less

Groups appears in: • sky & clouds • Storm Chasers more » • SKY DRAMA • Extreme Sky • CSSS: Storms - S T O R M S C A P E S « less

Camera: Nikon D90, f/25.0, 1/160 sec, 86mm (=129mm), ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D90
Aperture:	f/25.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	86mm (35mm equivalent: 129mm)
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 Windows
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