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Monday June 25th, 2007 I have added a Sprite Gallery to the site, directly accessible from the main page. Still waiting for the big shows of the year. Enjoy! Wednesday June 13th, 2007 Last Sunday there was a long lightning show from a big MCS thunderstorm in Toulouse. Initial intracloud sferic rates were several per second and it rumbled continuously. I caught some nice lightning photos, they will be published here soon! I was able to catch my 21st sprite of 2007 last night. I plan to make a gallery or blog of them! Monday March 26th, 2007 I finally have put some new photos online for you. I still plan to put up some more, even from the Norway trip. News: After having caught many sprites for my job (see here), I decided to buy a Watec 902H2-Ultimate sprite camera for myself! I already caught one sprite for the Spanish north coast 420 km away above a winter thunderstorm last week, March 21st, 0048 UTC. It also catches nice meteors. I will publish the more spectacular ones on this site when I get them. Sunday December 3rd, 2006 I have programmed a new Most Viewed photos page. I am also working on a Highest Rated page. I have now implemented the rating into the photo view window. Now you can be interactive! I believe this helps to create a 'Best Of' gallery for the visitors who have little time. It also helps me getting an idea which photos I can best remove if I need to clean up. I have chosen for a one-click rating to save you from excessive repetitive strain injuries. I still have a number of interesting photos to add, I reserve them for the winter days! ... Wednesday September 27th, 2006 Last evening I posted the photo series of the LP supercell of June 2nd in Nebraska. This amazing little storm certainly was a big treat and yielded some unique photos and time-lapse movies. The time-lapse animations can be found in the Movie section, the photos are below and in the Storms gallery (page 2-4 now). Thursday September 14th, 2006 Just posted a very special catch: a Red Sprite! This atmospheric phenomenon is topic of my PhD thesis, a lightning-like discharge at 40-80 km altitude, occurring over some thunderstorms. Monday 11th we went to Mont Aigoual again to observe the sky over distant thunderstorms with our sensitive video cameras. We recorded 28 sprites over a storm system over southwest France, 350 km away. With my own DSLR camera, I also tried my luck.... and I got rewarded! My first colour photo of a sprite, well visible in the image! I even saw it with my own eyes for the first time. It looked like a very short flash of four colourless narrow columns. More impressive is the video of the same event, showing a sequence of columns and then big 'carrot' shaped sprites with many branches at top and bottom. I will post the video stills soon on the EuroSprite blog. I got some more, but these were not very visible in the photos. Last weekend I posted more photos of the storm chasing vacation on the Great Plains in May. I hope you are enjoying them! Saturday July 8th, 2006 I just posted a load of fresh storm photos. The anvil crawler lightning photo series of June 25th, and the series of the interesting development of a small, marginal supercell on the 4th of July, here in Toulouse. It shows how in 12 minutes an updraft tower/wallcloud can form from a detached cloud band below the updraft base. Enjoy... Monday July 3rd, 2006 I am working on posting my photos of the storm chasing trip in May. Some are posted in our blog at stormchase2006.blogspot.com. Larger versions will finally be published on this site soon! I also had some decent lightning at night here in Toulouse, especially on June 25th. Monday May 8th, 2006 New! I had a nice squall line here over Toulouse last evening: View the timelapse animation: Squall line approaches - May 7th 2006, Toulouse every whole minute a photo was taken. (Canon EOS 5D/Sigma 20mm super wide). I will also post the couple of lightning photos! A nice treat just before I leave for my chase vacation on the Plains.... 3 days left. Keep track of our chase blog! Wednesday March 22th, 2006 Spring has started here in Toulouse, many blossoming trees, and sweet weather with a spring shower from time to time. Looking forward to spring and summer storms! The last time I really chased storms was in 2001, with Michael James. We experienced some very memorable events, such as the 29 May White Deer F3 tornado and the beautiful May 27th 'derecho' storm system, and we had some wonderful lightning photography opportunities. We operated out of Norman, Oklahoma. In August 2003 I had the honour to witness a beautiful morning storm in the desolate Oklahoma Panhandle in all tranquility, near an abandoned farm ...unforgettable. ...so it will not come as a surprise that this year, from May 11th till June 6th, I will get myself on the Great Plains again and chase storms! This time with my friends Harald Edens, Bernard Hulshof, and Dan Suri. we will have no fixed base but stay wherever the weather brings us. Expect new amazing storm photographs this year! Sunday, February 5th, 2006 I finally added a number of Norway autumn photographs. There are many more to come... Enjoy! (update: yeah, I'm slow. Many images to edit. But maybe I should hurry to post the single most interesting ones, finally?) Monday, November 21th, 2005 During the last few weeks I added photos of last summer's thunderstorms, some interesting cloudscapes, and the latest update: some pictures from the snow episode in the Netherlands last March. Scanning Norway slides is next on my list, if you can't wait check out my digital camera's gallery: Norway 24 Sept - 7 Oct Monday, October 31th, 2005 I updated the photos on the About the Wizard page. The Pic du Midi slides are all online now! Monday, October 24th, 2005 I finished editing the Pic du Midi slides. Since there are quite a few of them, I post them in bundles over this week. Enjoy the first ones! Wednesday, October 13th, 2005 Last Friday I came back from a two week trip through Norway in beautiful autumn colours. A refreshing experience! I shot 10 rolls of slides, 185 digital photos and 5 rolls in 6x6 format. Now you can expect 3 new bunches of photos this autumn here on the site: 1) Last summer's clouds/storms, 2) Pic du Midi mountain/sky photos, 3) Norway in autumn! And besides this, I have still not even seriously started scanning and adding 6x6 transparencies... Please email me that I shouldn't be so lazy to get new stuff online, this would help! Friday, September 2nd, 2005 The time lapse movies of clouds from Pic du Midi are online, as well as the lightning - electric field change movies: see Weather Movies section. I hope they work for you - best is to save to disk first by right-clicking and Save Target As... Enjoy them as I do! Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 short Newsflash :) I just stayed a week at the observatory on Pic du Midi in the French Pyrenees with two European sprite collegues. Unfortunately the weather had decided to become stable, so we did not see one storm. I did photograph a lot, the views of clouds in the valleys below are magnificent - I also made time lapse video of them. Expected today or tomorrow on the site! I managed to catch one sprite (but a nice close one) two weeks ago with the camera of Pic du Midi - see the website of the EuroSprite 2005 Campaign (which also features one photo of the observatory I took last week) Monday, August 1st, 2005 Posted the first 6x6 transparency scan! I thought I'd better pick a good one. Enjoy! As you may have noticed, I changed the setup of my website a little. You can now also browse my site by location, just like a travel photography website. This allows me to add more travel-related photography because I feel it now has a place on its own. Expect to see more landscape and culture photos of Romania, Alaska, Corsica and Crete. Soon I will start adding the scans of my medium format transparencies. For now, they will end up just between the other photographs but eventually you can browse them separately. On the other side, I turned off some Latest/Most/Least Viewed capabilities because the complexity of the categories in the database is greater and I'm not sure how to deal with that effectively. By the way, the EuroSprite 2005 Campaign has had a very successful night last Thursday! Let's hope for more of those! This week I control one of the cameras, as well as in the week 15-21 August. Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 Good news: I am reworking my website to allow also browsing by location and to have a somewhat more flexible gallery structure. Then I will start adding new photos, actually material that has never been scanned from the last three years, including photos from my Bronica S2a 6x6 camera. The other news is that next week the EuroSprite 2005 Campaign starts and I am one of the camera operators. :) Let's hope for excellent observing conditions, many storms over France, and no hard/software failures! Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 The spring has been fairly productive for nice cloudscape photographs. I posted them today, see below! I still have to put up some "winter" shots from March as well, actually. For Toulouse, the hunting season for thunderstorms is open, but during the last days I have only seen a "non-photogenique" daytime storm, but with good thunder. More news is that I finally have a scanner for my medium format slides, and I have gathered a good number of them since 2002. However, enjoy these cloud photos for now! Thursday, April 7th, 2005 I started adding some recent Dutch winter weather and cloud photos. I hope you enjoy them. I added finally the recent year buttons to click on in the Galleries, and actually wrote a short story about each year in the Storms Gallery. Also, the skies have been very nice here over Toulouse a week ago, I can't wait to see the slides! Stay tuned for more wintery shots. Wednesday, March 1st, 2005 It has been three months since the last update so it itched to add new stuff again. I added two movies in the Movie Section and finally fixed the missing thumbnails.The added movies are a little timelapse I did last summer with the webcam, and a quicktime movie made with my digital camera in Spain last November. As you can see below, I also added the big panorama that I made in Spain, and a series of Season photos of Canal du Midi here in Toulouse, as it changed its visual character a couple times. Enjoy! Sunday, December 12th, 2004 I have put online some thundery shots of last September and August (finally)! Monday, November 8th, 2004 Finally, the best of the digital Alaska photos that I had online this summer! This includes also wonderful Northern Greenland under the midnight sun, that I fell absolutely in love with. I actually recognized the scenery from which I took photos, on high-resolution satellite photographs, that I will add later. This week I am attending the 3rd European Conference on Severe Storms, in Léon, Spain, and I look very much forward to it! Monday, October 25th, 2004 Some new stuff for you to browse! Not many weather shots, but some extra shots of Scotland 2003 that I can't miss in my gallery, some Pyrenees photos as well, and some older scans that never made it to the site before! Next update will be more thundery shots, and more Alaska. Tuesday, September 21th, 2004 Fixed the look of the front page in Mozilla/Firefox 1.0! Seems like a neat browser to me, seems to load pages more quickly? I wonder if they would fix the mouseover things that should appear (status bar text and descriptions over images) Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 Finally a significant amount of new photographs! This is only the beginning... enjoy! and check back later this week/month for more! Note that it continues on page 2! I have put them in Various and in Clouds categories, quite arbitrarily. Weather/lightning shots will follow as well... Monday, August 9th, 2004 This weekend I removed about 75 photos (generally the ones with the least views) and a few video files to make space for new photos. I removed the Alaska digital photo directory as well, and will post the better ones of them into the galleries soon. I have a lot of slides to scan yet, but you can expect new stuff here soon! I also made a good crawler lightning shot in Toulouse. So be sure to check back often! Sunday, June 27th, 2004 I am back from my great Alaska vacation with Hanneke! A bunch of digital snapshots is online (just removed them Aug 9th), for which I used a cheap Nikon Coolpix 2200 with some photoshop batch processing for better rendering of highlight details and downsizing. There's also some airborne shots of beautiful northern Greenland late in the series! I brought 6 rolls of 35mm slide film and 5 rolls of 6x6 slide film to the photo store! Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 Hosting server was hacked, missing index file. Will restore it late June. Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 Tomorrow I will leave Toulouse by TGV to Paris and fly Frankfurt - Fairbanks Alaska, where my girlfriend Hanneke is for her research internship. We will travel around for a month, visiting a couple of beautiful National Parks and, of course, do a lot of photography there :P Unfortunately, I can't update my Convective Weather Maps during the vacation. Wednesday, May 12th, 2004 I added three timelapse movies of growing thunderstorms and mammatus as seen from my office in Toulouse, France. The first one is the best timelapse I made so far! Friday, April 9th, 2004 Happy Easter! During the weekend I will update the site with both very recent and some older photographs! Also a happy birthday to my mother, Marga! Good news: I have a new job! I will research thunderstorms that produce sprites & jets, in Toulouse, France, at Laboratoire d'Aérologie from Université Paul Sabatier. Oops I must have forgotten to copy older (February) news to this page. Ah well who reads it ;) Saturday, Dec 20st 2003: It's Hanneke's birthday today! :) I added a bonus photograph that I made with her in Scotland last year, see below. More news! My Storm & Barn photo that I made last August in the Oklahoma Panhandle won the 1st prize in the Severe category of the University of Oklahoma Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (OUSCAMS)! This Saturday I will fly back to the Netherlands for Christmas. Have a great holiday!
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