On June 18, 2008 Mike Hollingshead from “Extreme Instability” documented the advent of the weirdest storm: giant waves of rolling thick fog, cresting over the landscape….
With his exclusive permission, here are some beautiful images of this unreal event.
Mike write:
I just remember what I was doing with this shot. A severe storm was moving se from near Rapid City. Lightning was popping away down there from time to time, as well as forking out in the sky. I stopped the lens down for a little longer shutter, hoping to get one. I don’t even remember seeing the convective nature to those low clouds there. You can see some blurred fog below that. These are taken from around the Pinnacles Overlook.
Noticed some really thick fog to the nw, apparently moving southeast. He thought cool, that will help thicken up my fog a little. This is looking nw, the relatively brighter sky is blowing out. It’s still not bright out, as the sun just rose, and is back behind clouds.
Here is the video
As if the landscape and foggy scene weren’t cool already, spotted these Bighorn Sheep walking along the cliffs! Between Pinnacles Overlook and the switchback curve of death, parked on the skinny shoulder here. Then ran over to the edge and down a bit to get the Bighorns with the fog. The camera is mounted with the 100-400L on. He made sure to look for rattlesnakes first! They have signs all over warning of them. 
It blows my mind where these things walk. The shutter was a couple seconds long to get the scene, so if they were walking, they’d blur. Finally I’d make a clicking noise before each shot, as that would get them to stop and look long enough to not blur.
For a second imagine a long day of driving followed by climbing all over rocks into the early morning hours, then 2 hours of sleep, a cool foggy sunrise….and now this is starting to happen.
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