Courtesy of Daily Timewaster, here's a beautiful time-lapse video of sunset over Bowdon, North Dakota, in 2017. The videographer, Mike Olbinski, writes:
We were chasing northeast of Bismarck, North Dakota and as storms were dying out, we decided to go for a lone cell on the backside of a line of storms. We knew it had a hail core on it and we were hoping that we might get some nice sunset color at least on the storm as it moved past us, and hopefully some lightning bolts. But we had no idea what we were about to encounter. The clouds were taking on a very different, curvy, wave-like appearance and suddenly we knew what we were seeing.
Undulatus asperatus clouds are a rare phenomenon and actually the newest named cloud type in over 60 years. I've seen tons of photos of them, but never anything like what we witnessed last night. We had a storm with hail in front of us and flashing lightning which was fantastic. But then we had this layer of undulatus clouds flowing across our view. Watching them was amazing already, but then the sun slowly appeared from behind some clouds to the west and lit up our storm like nothing we've ever seen before. We were like kids in a candy store. Running around, doing our best to capture it from every possible angle.
I did two time-lapses...one on the right side with a 50mm and then a wide angle with the 11mm. The colors here are real. I only increased the contrast. In fact, I was thinking of actually REDUCING the saturation because of how intense the colors looked with the contrast added. But that's how it was and I left it that way. Six of us were there and all our photo and videos look the same.
This was undoubtedly one of the most incredible scenes I've witnessed chasing storms for the past 8 years.
Here's the video.
Beautiful indeed! It looked to me as if I were deep underwater, looking up, seeing whales swimming near the surface, undulating and gliding through the water.
We've seen Mike Olbinski's videos on this blog before. You'll find more of them on his YouTube channel.
Peter
WOW!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Nature gives spectacular shows 24/7, admission price is simply taking time to watch.
ReplyDeleteMajestic.
ReplyDeleteAwe-some!
ReplyDeleteAwe-inspiring!
Aw, awfully fantastic!
Thanks.
Hadn't seen anything like that before.
ReplyDeleteI have had more than a few times of "Wait, people think THAT is something special?!" to things I'd seen several times - and since my interest was in astronomy, clouds were Not Good... those "beautiful sunsets" were always ugly to my - robbing me of a nice, proper, clear sky (and there's ALWAYS clouds on the horizon if Mercury is sought after...)