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Pete the Britt

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    Brentwood, Essex.
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    Photography, videography, severe weather along with several other things that keep me poor lol.

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  1. Criag, this trip is all about experimentation for me this year with my photography to try & push some new boundaries so cant give any new sound advice till i know what im doing myself & what works best lol. Best advice i can give is try to get your camera on a tripod at every shoot & use a cable release. Means your hands are off the camera & you'll aviod any camera shake & slightly out of focus & blurred images. Try out a few "test" shots to see what they come out like & adjust to avoid anything encroaching on the sides of the frame that may become a distraction. Just a case of taking a little time & thought about your shot & framing it well.
  2. Hey guys, will be good to see y'all somewhere under a messo lol. We're out in a huge white Chevy Suburban this year but as James isn't with us it's quite discreet & doesn't look like a porcupine lol.
  3. Hey Craig, soundtrack was a must lol & have been waiting for a chance to use it. Still got the rest of the month out here so maybe a few more timelapses & Prodigy to be posted yet
  4. Just thoght i'd share this link with y'all. Put all my images taken that night into a video programme to make a fast punchy time lapse, really shows the messo rotation as it passes directly over the top of us. Hope you like & turn up your volume lol
  5. Hey y'all this was our first chase day after landing yesterday evening & scoffing steak at the cow camp in Decatur. We left Decatur Tx this morning by 10am & headed up through Oklahoma & into Kansas, Our initial target area was Dodge city but that soon changed & we headed towards Witicha. We was aware it wsa going to be a late show & had an eye on the Baron as well as the developing cu. Moisture didnt seem to be as abundant as we'd hoped & agreed to get some food & a room at a motel in Junction City & hope we caught something after sunset & hope for some lightning. We'd just checked in & off to our south west a huge cell bubbled up in no time & headed straight for us. It was huge with evidence of rotation clearly shown on the Baron & as it got darker lightning became more visible. The next hour was amazing & was the best lightning i've seen for 4-5 years. We could see some sign of striations when the lightning flashed but not clearly, it was only when i viewed my images we can clearly see structure & some intersting shapes that went straight over the top of us. Couple of down days now & looking forward to Sunday & onto Monday which will no doubt end up being a pile of rubbish with all the hype it's getting so early on lol. Regards Peter Scott Pete@chasethestorm.com www.chasethestorm.com www.ukstorm.net
  6. Of course, i got to get my money's worth out of it
  7. Hi all, been a while since i posted here. Just had a storm go over about an hour ago. Short lived but very cheeky with it & produced 4 lightning discharges & i managed to catch 2 pretty happy with that turn round. The twin effect could well be an effect created by shooting through a double glazed unit & no the tower wasn't struck but i believe it was a church about 300 meters away. Damn it was loud lol. plus some Mammatus after the main action has passed by.
  8. Hi all, I was heading home to Brentwood in Essex , southbound along the A12 when a really dark significant lowering in the cloud base caught my eye. The overall cloud bases were a fair way higher than the tree tops but this base was sooo low i could only catch glimpses of it every now & then when there was a break in the tree line (like chasing in Missouri all over again lol) . I managed to navigate myself through to the back lanes & ended out at a village called Blackmore. I don't think I've ever been so excited in 8 years of chasing storms in the States than i was this afternoon watching this lowering sucking up scud & rotating at times like a merry go round, i only wish i'd learnt how to use the video option on my camera to get some time lapse. The first few images are embarrasing to say the least, in my excitement i neglected to check my settings & basically they came out black but i managed to recover them just, if i was shooting jpeg i'd have lost them but luckily they were done in RAW. Regards Pete
  9. Hey hey, that was a nice suprise to see. We were en-route to Abilene when we saw this beastie go up & spent some time shooting it with HD video & relocated for the lightning during the evening. Nice to get a little action at last lol. Maybe see you chaps tomorrow afternoon I'll leave you with some images from our distant location lol. Pete.
  10. Hey Ian & gang, just checking in to see what the score is for today's chase, really feel for you guys today/tonight after so much hope with the earlier synopsis but i guess that's stormchasing all over. Have a safe journey back south Pete
  11. Thanks Paul for raising this topic for me Steve, my thoughts are still the same now as they were back then, that was no gust front that hit us, i was watching the debris base come at us.
  12. OK, Steve storms is set up in clear air at the moment at Fannin county. Not a million miles away from Paul & team. Maybe they'll run into each other but i think he's going to push SE to miss most of the rain that's coming with this monster. Pete
  13. What a super night you guys seem to have had. If that's your first attempt at lightning then you've done yourself proud. Look forward to seeing more. Pete
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