Linda Unger keeps her eye to the sky!

So you got a new camera for Christmas? Great!  Check out these pictures taken by a Houston area photographer for some inspiration.

I have featured Linda Unger's photos during my weathercasts a couple of times. They are simply stunning. She sees beauty in the sky that most of us miss. Check out the unique rainbow below.

This is real, not PhotoShop!  Linda told me she took the picture above the day before Hurricane Ike. "I was at the intersection of Hwy 290 and the Brenham 290 turn off, getting gas and looked up and there it was... at first I thought it was a problem with my sunglasses! But I was so amazed," she said.

Through Linda's emails and her website I realized one of her tricks: always have your camera with you and take lots of photos.  She told me she took about 10 shots of the rainbow above. Only one was perfect.

She has a special section on Hurricane Ike on her website. While most of us were running around getting ready for the storm, Linda captured the beauty in the feeder band clouds that rolled in around sunset.

Linda says she uses a Canon EOS 30D digital DSLR to take most of her photos. She has five other cameras and twenty-one different lenses and filters. But She writes on her website, "I'm convinced that even if you have a Kodak Brownie, you can take great pics. You don't need a $3000 camera to take award winning shots. It just takes time to learn what is appealing to the eye!"

As a fan of ghost stories, I really appreciate Linda's photos of haunted houses. She found this abandoned house outside of Jamestown, PA.  "My camera quit working after a few minutes, making buzzing sounds and locking up," she wrote. "I went outside and the sounds stopped. So I shot a few pics from the doorway! It was quite creepy."

If you capture some beautiful photos of the sky or the changing weather, send them to us.

All photos above used with permission of the photographer.

Comments

[Sergio Fortuna]

Linda and I participate in a site about photography. I am Brazilian and much admire the quality of the photographic work she does. Besides excellent photographer and observer of nature, she loves what she does. And that makes the difference.

[Cole]

This is very cool to read about, especially since most of us probably didn't take time to enjoy the beauty that also accompanied Ike.