The Infamous Tornado Photo [08.14.12]

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The photo was taken with Ryan Burkett strapped to the trailer to get a rolling shot of John Norris' Chevy S10. L.b. was driving the truck pulling the trailer. Usually I do a few behind the scenes shots and post them up to my personal Facebook account. I edited the photo and remembered that yesterday there was a Tornado Watch out for where I live.. we didn't exactly go out and shoot at the most perfect time; raining, windy, and thunder/lighting all around us. But we needed to get this photo done and the storm was moving off in the distance.

With all that, I thought it would be funny to photoshop a tornado in the background... purely for shits and giggles. I didn't know that this photo would blow up and be posted on many Automotive Facebook Fan Pages, especially since it was on my personal Facebook only. I only did this for some laughs from my friends... I actually thought it was a very poor photoshop. This photo had thousands of views and 'Likes' on Facebook. After several inquiries for wallpaper sized downloads, I decided to upload this photo to Flickr. Enjoy.

*Note: The road had little to no traffic.

Tornado Photo Credit to Benjamin Huffman of Photography.GeoThunder.com

Someone posted it to Reddit.

ISO 500
1/25th
ƒ/7.1
35mm

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  1. V-Way 9 months ago | reply

    Nice, but for some reason I thought this was shot in 35mm.

  2. MikeNZ1:) 9 months ago | reply

    Neat and what timing!!

  3. popthings 9 months ago | reply

    hahahaha dats awesome

  4. AlexnikonD90 9 months ago | reply

    Que grande.... !!!

  5. mariusdalseg 9 months ago | reply

    Amazing. Fantastic photo. Love everything. The sense of speed the gritty texture on the back of the car and the tornado in the backgroun is just excellent!

    [ via flickriver explore  --mariusdalseg ]

  6. B M KANOJA 9 months ago | reply

    beautiful picture congratulation for explore.

    Via Today's Explore at #1 on Fluidr

  7. no2broady 9 months ago | reply

    Wow, thats an amazing photo!

  8. renfrew_michael 9 months ago | reply

    cool i like 100/100

  9. _SG_ 9 months ago | reply

    beautiful capture

    [ via flickriver explore  --_SG_ ]

  10. Dre@m Maker 9 months ago | reply

    Killer creation Andrew!
    Pure genuis.. lol :D

  11. El3naLiv 9 months ago | reply

    Cool picture!

  12. agedsenator 9 months ago | reply


    I saw this in the 100+ Faves group and Faved it.

  13. Andrew H Wagner | AHWagner Photo 9 months ago | reply

    Thank you everyone!

  14. mariagudnadottir 9 months ago | reply

    haha fun shot.

  15. chilledvondub 9 months ago | reply

    the focal length is 35mm, was shot on a 7D not a 35mm camera :)

  16. louis.foecy.fr 9 months ago | reply

    Joli !!!

  17. NuxVomic@ 9 months ago | reply

    Formidable !

  18. mistral320 8 months ago | reply

    cool ... white pants on a rusty trailer ... looks like trouble back home
    please post more "behind the scenes" on fliclkr (´couldn´t find)

  19. sijamac1 8 months ago | reply

    Stunning Shot!

  20. Jurriaan Vogel 8 months ago | reply

    The Photoshop worked out quite well! ;-) Great photo!

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