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Taken about 150klms off the coast of NSW in the Tasman Sea yesterday (15 Aug).

A very large waterspout thinned out and became a vigorous and agile thin waterspout as shown below in the pic i took. There was a very large thunderstorm above it.

We headed the ship closer to it but it fizzled out before we got much closer than i got in the shot.

Colour to show what it looked like and B&W in an effort to get a bit more contrast out of it. The distance and darkness contributed to make photographing a 'cool' image impossible. This is the best i got.

Specs: Nikon D2H and 80-200mm @ 200mm

Ahhh - seems you're slowly finding your way home!

Nice timing to capture this - I'm amazed by these things.

sheepie wrote:Ahhh - seems you're slowly finding your way home!

Nice timing to capture this - I'm amazed by these things.

Yep, back in Sydney now. I was enjoying the summer sunshine, 'up north.' I'm not here for long though before i go somewhere else.

I've seen a few waterspouts over the years but this is the first i have been able to photograph. In fact, when i was living in Hervey Bay, QLD, I was there when a waterspout made landfall and slowly made it's way through the council caravan park before losing it's energy and collapsing in a wall of water. It made a mess of the park and flooded the main road too.

They are much more common than tornados in the Australia area. Well, i assume they are as i've only seen one tornado and several waterspouts over here.

Great image Steve! It's a pity you couldn't get closer to it, but you've done well anyway! I'd love to be in close proximity to a water spout....with camera handy of course!