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The Devil's Tail


The Devil's Tail
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Copyright: Ted Alan Stedman (tAs) Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 24 W: 0 N: 93] (479)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-06-01
Categories: Event
Camera: Minolta Maxxum 7D, Konica Minolta AF 28 - 75 f2.8
Exposure: f/16, 1/300 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-01-16 4:20
Viewed: 928
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The sky was particularly ugly this day. I was aboard a small boat when someone yelled "Waterspout." We looked to sea and saw this nasty spout...a tornado over the water, really...touching down. It's a lot larger than it looks, and I think you can apprecate the scale of it better with part of this massive cruise ship in the photo. I took many photos of the spout after this one, without the cruise ship, and it became darker and more defined, looking just like a twister.

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Good picture, you had to be there and ready. The sharpness is there.

Beautiful journalistic photograph

hi Ted
this is a great capture, but you've missed the whole twister..
here's one in Corsica last year. http://fr.trekearth.com/viewphotos.php?l=8&p=444392

regards

Hi Ted, the photo itself is nothing special, but the emotions it transmits are great! Some years ago I had the same experience and I can confirm that looking at the "devil's tail" going down to water is frightening but so exciting at the same time.
Sabrina

Ted: amazing capture, and the cruise liner for scale is tops. Great upload - super timely, amazing shot. regards, c

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