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I still have to review the hurricane photos but that is only for the best of section of the site but other then a few touch up jobs on some photos, the photo section edit that I have been working on for the last 3 months is Finished. Now I just have to create the script for the virtual pages and then it is on line for all the images.

How many images? Over 670 images are going online right now. I’m going to get some sleep now while they upload but by 9AM Central Time, they should all be up.
It will soon be hidden once the script files are created but until then, check them out the old fashion way!!!

Oh yeah, here is the last merge image I worked on. So now, funk it, I’m going to bed!!!

The photo editing project is coming to an end. I only have a few more things to do but for the most part, it is done!!! What is left? The photo merge directory where I have to stitch images together such as this one. This is from Feb. 2006 near Climax Mountain in Summit County Colorado.

While going through more of the images today, I got to the hurricane directory and almost done with all the images. These are from Hurricane Rita as I past through Huntsville TX.  

These are the huge gas lines at the one gas station that was open and everyone was in a state of panic to get the fuel they had.

I’m almost done with all the image editing. Here is one that I worked on this morning. I just can’t wait until I get all the images edited so I can finish the website.

Last night the aurora chase was a total bust. Clouds messed it up pretty bad and I ended up wasting my time. Tomorrow looks to be cloudy as well but I might be able to get out and see the auroras if they happen again. It will be a road trip if it happens.

Today I have been working from home and just got a call from another production company wanting to do a Katrina docu. This one sounds like it might be good but its another non profit one that wants stuff dirt cheap. Sorry folks, screen credits don’t pay the bills.

Just looked at the GFS, and there is nothing coming in the next 2 weeks for rain or snow to the Minnesota area. GFS forecast Precip The temp forecast is also pretty warm for this time of year. GFS Temp forecast So it looks like more of the same but it gives me time to finish up the website. I have almost all the photos edited.

Here is another lost image. This is May 4th, 2003 – Kansas Turnpike Tornado Photo.
I shot this with a throw away camera so the negs had some major scratches in them. But the image when cleaned up looks pretty sweet. That treeline is only 100 yards away from at best. Part of the problem with the photo is that I’m pretty much IN the debris field at this time and it was shot with a POS camera. It took the better part of last night and this morning to clean this up because I scanned it in at 12,000 dpi to get at the defects and the 12,000 dpi scan is over 1 gig in size. With the file being that huge, it takes a while for the computer to catch up to what I want it to do.

Another day of manic photo editing here while listening to more NIN and I just found this one. Thought this was funny while chasing.

Trying to edit through 250 gigs worth of scans is a total pain in the ass. But I have got through some of the old tornado stuff and here are a couple images. So what did I find in the photos?

These negs were sitting in a box for up to 10 years in some cases. They are scratched and dirty so I have to go through everything at 12,000 DPI and clean up the scratches, but it is worth it.

This first one is from 2000 over in Wisconsin of all places. It just kept spinning up and trying to put out a funnel before it just died.

This next one if from the 7/14/2003 Searles MN tornado.

Is this not like, um yeah. NO SHIT.
Waiting for Tony to photo shop “Roger” on the top of it 🙂