The planet Venus, shining at -3.96 magnitude, sets in the southwest sky amid passing clouds as seen from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 5:40 PM, Thursday, December 15, 2011. This image was captured by shooting a ten-second exposure at f/13, 500 ISO and 26mm focal length.
A waning gibbous moon rises over a neighborhood decorated with Christmas lights just north of Boyson Road in Cedar Rapids, Iowa just before 7:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2011. This view looks northeast. In the foreground is Boyson Lane and in the background at right is Boyson Court. The image is a composite shot with the foreground being imaged as a five second exposure at f/8, 500 ISO and an 18mm focal length. The moon was shot separately at 1/800 second at f/5.6, 500 ISO and 200mm focal length.
This stab of lightning was part of a brilliant display around the outer fringes of a mesocyclone located just out of the image at left. The image is a video frame capture looking NNE along US Highway 71 a quarter-mile south of 280th Street and about 5.3 miles south of Early, Iowa. It was shot around 8:50 PM, Saturday, April 9, 2011. I had been capturing video of an amazing lightning display through the window of our vehicle here, unaware that the meso just to our north was already disgorging a wedge tornado as we chased along the storm's SE flank. Tornadic activity lasted well past 10:00 PM on this night.
The setting sun sends out rays from behind a large cumulus cloud in this image from Fredericksburg Road (Highway 16) just northeast of Kerrville, Texas around 5:00 PM, Monday, November 21, 2011. This view looks southwest toward town.
Scattered cumulus clouds drift past resort buildings as seen from the beach on the island of
Though the official sunrise occurred a little over an hour earlier, the sun just peeks over the rocky and hilly terrain as seen from Alvin Drive in Kerrville, Texas around 8:12 AM, Tuesday, November 22, 2011. This view looks southeast in the direction of San Antonio. Temperatures at San Antonio would rise to 82 degrees later in the day. Our family was in Texas for a vacation.
Swiftly passing clouds move across the southern sky in this view from Alvin Drive in Kerrville, Texas around 7:10 PM, Monday, November 21, 2011. Thicker clouds brought heavy rain and some lightning several hours later, a welcome occurrence for a state which had experienced very dry conditions for months. The dark shrubs at center are cedars and at right foreground is a century plant. This was a six-second exposure at f/4, 1600 ISO and a focal length of 22mm.
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