April 22 Eads Colorado Tornadoes

Jon Merage and I got a late start out of Denver and blasted Southeast through Limon to just North of the Eads Colorado area. We had no data so I called Dan Cianca who told me a tornado warned storm was coming up from the South. Thanks Dude! We peaked a hill to see an elongated looking storm with several tornadoes on the ground!





We will have to do some video analysis to see how many different tornadoes we actually recorded. LCLs were very low and it was almost impossible to pick out separate mesocyclonic features. These tornadoes were occurring in an environment characterized by a 54/54 temp/dewpoint with incredible shear. We observed several multivortex tornadoes with assorted cones, trunks, and ropes, followed by a wedge. The storm seemed to die after the wedge so we headed into Southwest Kansas and caught a large tornado from a distance looking North from just West of Garden City Kansas.

Deer Creek Shooting, Here We Go Again

Two schools, 11 years. Who would have thought it could happen again, let alone in the same neighborhood.


Jefferson County Sheriff's officers set up a roadblock near Deer Creek Middle School, where an unidentified man shot two students Tuesday. Photo by Sean Mullins . smullin5@mscd.edu


Mackenzie Owens, a Deer Creek student, is comforted by her mother shortly after the shooting. Owens said "I saw the shooting. We only heard one shot." Photo by Sean Mullins . smullin5@mscd.edu


Ashley Marcon, a Deer Creek Student, is comforted by her family shortly after the shooting at Deer Creek Middle School. Ashley's mother said "she saw the victims come into the room after the shooting." Photo by Sean Mullins . smullin5@mscd.edu

I was in 8th grade at Dear Creek during the Columbine shootings. Today is a jarring reminder that these things can happen anywhere, anytime.

Things to Come!

Spring cant get here sooner!

Best of San Francisco 2009

This is pretty belated but oh well. Some keepers from my San Francisco trip last Fall.

Twilight at Tillamook Bay

Happy New Year! I just returned from a fantastic trip to Oregon to see family and friends. Photography wasnt my top priority but I managed to get this shot during our one decent weather day on the Oregon coast.

This is looking NW from the pier at Garibaldi on the North side of Tillamook Bay. A 30 second exposure brought out nice saturated greys and blues while smoothing the water. The only post-processing was setting black and white points and sharpening.


Cheers and Happy New Year!

Cable Car Number 23

Howdy all! This is one of many projects from my recent San Francisco journey.

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