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The Crazy Weather {Canon EOS Rebel Giveaway}

Canon EOS Rebel

We have had some super crazy weather here lately, haven’t we? I live in the South and it has been very much like summer this past week but there is a chance of snow tomorrow.  Isn’t that nuts? I will admit that I miss snow something terrible and while part of me is wishing and hoping for some the bigger part of me says please no because my hubby will be coming home and snow will delay him.

I have been thinking about all the pictures of the weather I take and thought I would help someone else have a chance to enjoy the same thrill come spring. So I am giving away another  Canon EOS Rebel.  Some of the features include:

12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor

Creates an effect 1.6x field of view and captures high-resolution images with exceptional clarity and tonal range.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens

With aspherical lens element, circular aperture and optical image stabilizer for incredible picture detail. EF lens mount for use with Canon EF and EF-S interchangeable lenses.

2.7″ color TFT-LCD monitor

Live View function and 170° viewing angle for improved viewing. Eye-level penta-mirror viewfinder with adjustable diopter control.

and much, much more.

I am running this a bit longer than last time because I am going to be  away and trying to keep the giveaways that end while I am away to a minimum so I can have a little time to enjoy myself. Enter below for your chance to win. ENDS March 3, 2013 at 11:59 pm EST

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I live in a small Georgia town that you most likely have never heard of and I LOVE it! My house is more than full as I am a single mother of four & caregiver to my aging mother and uncle. Lover of all things Outlander. Goes to the beat of her own drum woman.

Comments

  1. Last year we had and unexpected snow storm in September. I took a picture for memories. I remember going out to my garden to pick the rest of my zucchini. Everything was destroyed the cold got to them. I sure was bummed. The picture did turn out great.

    • i want this camera for my wedding anniversary i wanna take pics with it under Blue sky & with beautiful blossoms which is just a step away from us over here & it’ll freeze my 1st anniversary’s memories most beautiful relics in my life 🙂

  2. It would be so cool to win this camera. No more having to ask my dad for his when I have to do assignments. I live the south too (South Florida to be exact) so it’s always Summer here, great lighting for great pictures.

  3. I got a panoramic shot of the clouds coming in over phoenix. It looks like another planet about to collide with ours!

  5. My best weather picture was taken this summer. My husband and kids had spotted a squirrel trying to cool himself down in the 100+ degree weather. He was laying down flat as a pancake, nearly under the rear tire of our car…. the shade had kept the ground cool 🙂 Clever little guy, and made for a great picture because we Never see a squirrel lying still! You know it’s hot when…

  6. My favorite weather picture is of my son in the snow at age 2. He dropped his train and made a tantrum snow angel, well kind of ;).

  7. I absolutely love taking pictures. My best/ favorite picture is on a lake. The sky was beautiful and if u turn the picture upside down it looks the same bc of the reflection of the lake.

  8. My best weather photo I took was probably when a storm had been passing over while I was shakerboarding for lil caesars. The clouds looked absolutely amazing, kind of like an upside down sea. If videos count, I managed to catch quite a few lightning bolts on my phone during a storm that killed all the power here in Montana. It was really creepy because everything was pitch black, no one having generators or emergency lights around here.

  9. My best weather picture was one I took of our snow covered trees in our backyard. It was snowing and the picture turned out beautifully!

  11. My best weather photo is definitely sunny on the beach of some tropical island….I really love taking sunset photos as every sunset is unique but ALL are beautiful…

  12. mostly when we take pics its at the lake, I have yet to have my camera when I see the pelicans though

  13. My favorite photo is where my baby is looking at a rose whos petels are falling do to the change of seasons from summer to autumn, I think its a beautiful image, the image of the rose captures life and the time factor as it emphasizes the development of itself. I love it!
    lic_gcampos@hotmail.com

  14. My best weather picture is a foggy picture with the Space Needle in Seattle lit up showing through.

  15. My best weather picture was when i was on vacation with my family in Florida i’ve always loved photography but never could afford a good camera but i took a picture of the beach we just got there and it started to rain and i was really upset but it dried up super fast and the storm passed and there was this beautiful rainbow across the ocean and i snapped it with the dark and light clouds and water and it just looked awesome! thanks for the chance to win an amazing prize!

  16. I took this wonderful photo of these tigers at my zoo while it was raining it was just a really fun shot!

  17. Since it’s winter here… then it would be a picture just after the snowstorm with trees and grass covered with fresh white snow..

  18. A couple of years ago we had a huge ice storm. I took the most beautiful pictures of the snow & ice on the trees, ground & just everything covered.

  19. I took some really cool pictures last year of sleet on my far in Florida 🙂

  20. My best weather picture is from two years ago where there was icicles almost 4 ft high dangling off my roof….I live in ny so its freezing this winter we just got 5 inches yesterday can we trade?

  21. I have two that I consider my best weather pictures, I can’t pick just one…the first is of my potted snap dragons covered in snow BUT each and every flower peeks out of the snow… The other is a picture of the wild flowers in CA a whole orange mountain of poppy flowers!

  22. The best weather picture I have taken was two years ago when we had a ice storm. It was amazing! Everything was just frozen in time.

  23. Well I love taking pictures and I would say that one of my dreams is to become a photographer or at least something close to that. I love taking pictures of my kids and they are my little models. Any day is great for taking pictures outside. I love going to the parks and trails close to our house and just admire nature and capture the beauty in pictures 🙂

  24. I have one from a few years ago when my sister & I went home to NY to visit our parents. It’s of her & I outside and it’s snowing. The snowflakes surrounding us are SO beautiful!

  25. I’d have to say it’s a photo my husband shot of me holding our youngest child, who was then about 11 months old, out in falling snow. It was the first time she had seen snow and you can just see how magical that moment was from the picture.

  27. I don’t have a camera soooo I don’t have weather pics, I have a nice picture of my cat smelling a flower though

  28. My favourite picture is of a winter sunset that I took about a year ago. I had the print made into a canvas!

  31. I have a photo of my 9 year old son in the snow from when he was a baby. We rarely get snow, but had about a foot that winter! Thanks for the chance to win!
    mrsmchappell at gmail dot com

  34. My best weather picture was taken during a hurricane from the safety of the door; it shows rain and debris blowing sideways down the street, perfectly horizontal.

  36. My best weather picture would have to be a Winter photo I took with a macro lens, of some dripping icicles. I got some great shots of translucent, blue icicles, with drops of water hanging in mid-air. My tools were my Canon XTi DSLR, a convert lens so that I could use my film camera macro lens, and a ladder.

  40. I actually don’t have any good weather pictures since I don’t have a nice camera.. But if I had a nice one like this, my boyfriend (who is a professional photographer) and I could have contests!

  41. On our honeymoon, I took a great picture of the sun on the island and storms way off in the ocan. We went to Turks and Caicos. It was awesome. It only rained on our last day there.

    Diana

  42. my best weather pic is when we were in hawaii and we were hiking and it started raining and we saw a double rainbow over a mountain. it was one of the best pics i have ever taken.

  44. My best weather picture was a double rainbow I captured at home a couple years ago that was SO pretty. I love rainbows

  45. My best weather picture is of some billowy clouds with the sun ray showing through…I have used for my twitter or facebook before. It reminds me the sun is ALWAYS there, even if sometimes seems to be hiding:)

  46. Mine was the most huge, glowing orange sunrise off my second floor porch in the year 2ooo.

  47. I guess it counts as a “weather picture”–I got a great shot of a double rainbow over the desert on a vacation some years ago. In the shot, it is bright sunshine with no clouds…and two rainbows.

  50. yesterday we had a fast moving snow storm and it was so beautiful. I tried taking a good picture of it,but for some reason the picture kept looking like crap.

    Thanks for the giveaway!
    aemgeg4 (@) yahoo (dot) com

  51. My best weather picture was taken last winter, it had rained and everything was covered with ice, the picture was taken in black and white and it’s absolutely beautiful

  53. I took a photo of some crazy dark clouds one day, they looked very dark and ominous – and were different than any clouds I had ever seen!

  55. I was forced to work during tropical storm/hurricane/super storm Sandy while it was skimming the Florida coastline. The gusting wind, pouring rain, lightning and crazy cloud formations made for some great pics throughout that horrible lame day. The background pic of my twitter profile is actually my favorite one from that day but only about half the sand that was blowing around would show up in the pics my iPhone took which is why I’d love a more professional camera. Hope I win, thanks for the opportunity!

  58. My best weather picture was of ice covering a dark red rose. We had an unexpected cold front move in two years ago and the roses were still in bloom. It was so pretty and unusually that I had to take a photo of it.

  60. the best weather for me would be

    around sunset or sunrise
    at 60-70 degree
    spring time
    on a weekend

    —– Pauline aka Paol Trenny ….. emscout9 at Hotmail dot com

  63. I loved it once that I took a pic of some trees, leafs falling, it was very windy and it had an awesome rainbow in the backgound =)

  66. It was the dead of winter in Michigan during a blizzard. I was 20 and working at a 7-11. The old brick building across the street had a red door that I always stared at. Between the dull brown bricks, the grayish light of the mid morning and the whiteout the snow caused, that red door was screaming photo op. I positioned my cheapy 35mm so that a bush dripping of tiny icicles was in the foreground and blurry. That door was perfectly focused, slightly off center and I was lucky enough to catch a few blurry flurries in the frame too. To this day its my favorite picture I’ve ever taken.

  67. I don’t really have any weather pictures other than a pic of a rainbow that I took a couple of years ago.

  69. Four years ago when we got a heavy snow storm and it was just a powder snow type. It was really nice how the roads were and how the snow would pile up in areas from the wind blowing it.

  70. Last winter I got some great shots of the snow on some hills by my house. The snow in combination with the shadows from the clouds, and from the surrounding trees gave a really great effect.

  71. During a hurricane, I was able to take a picture of the wind whipping the trees and other stuff through the peephole of our door. It was cool.

  73. i got an amazing picture of the beach in Italy when an unexpected storm hit! Beautiful clouds in contrast with the bright blue waters! So amazing!

  74. It would be so cool to win this camera. No more having to ask my dad for his when I have to do assignments.

  75. My best weather picture was during NYC last blizzard! The snow looked absolutely beautiful in the photos!

  76. I took an amazing rainbow picture in our neighborhood two weeks ago right after the rain. I was super-lucky it turned out so well!

  78. When my 2 boys were about 5 and 4, I took a great outdoor snow pic of my youngest laying on top of oldest back…it was a great pic and I still get compliments on it.

  79. we had a big ice storm last winter and i was able to get a shot of the inch thick layer of ice on the branches of my favorite tree before it came down.

  80. This past Christmas we had a record breaking snow and I got a picture of my four children playing outside. Thanks for the awesome giveaway 🙂

    Renee
    fattybumpkins at yahoo dot com

  81. A snowstorm 3 years ago, i have a picture of our hot tub completely submerged in snow, thats how deep it was!

  85. I made my favourite picture on a really bad weather day in October on Iceland. I was hiking on Ejafjallajökul and it just stopped to rain and as the vulcano is really hot up there the water was rising up as hot steam and it really looks incredible on the pic. You should go up there and see yourself.
    Greetz from Germany,
    LOVE Gitte

    sweetmonstercrew@yahoo.de

  86. 2 years ago we had 18 inches of snow & ice. I got some great shots of snow covered trees & tranquil settings.

  87. Took a picture on a perfect autumn day (from the car!) of the leaves turning in Asheville, NC (huuuuge leaf season/tourist draw) and there was a barn/farm in the pic…looked gorgeous!

  88. not on purpose I caught lightning in a picture
    Thank you for hosting this giveaway

    Louis
    pumuckler {at} gmail {dot} com

  89. My best weather photo’s are the first crocus flowers that bloom in the early spring, even while there is still snow on the ground, those bursts of color just cheer me up after a long gray winter. Taking pictures of my garden is a hobby and also reminds me where those bulbs were planted when I add more in the fall.

  94. a picture of my old Suzuki swift with over 2 feet of snow on it… I like snow pictures

  95. I took a great photo in Turkey right before it was about to storm. The mix of the dramatic clouds and intense landscape made it a stunning photo.

  98. I took some photos of my children while they were playing on the beach. It was right before sunset so the lighting seemed to be absolutely perfect. The children almost look like they were photoshopped in the picture.

  99. My best weather picture had been taken after a rainy day and my friends and I went hiking. I liked the way the mud had covered our shoes and everything was so bright and clear.

  101. My best weather picture happened when I woke up early and saw the sunset. Before I knew it the rain started pouring outside. A few minutes after the rain stopped I stepped outside to get the paper and saw a beautiful rainbow to start my day. I had to grab my phone and take a picture.

  103. The best weather picture I have is a picture of my son sitting on the window sill watching the snow fall!

  105. One of my favorites is one that I took by a lake by my house. It was slightly overcast fall day and super windy. Hair flying, Leaves falling. =)

  107. One of my best weather photos was actually one that I took with my Blackberry. Remember, it’s not the camera (although a nice camera helps!) it’s the photographer. The photograph was that of a massive snow drift that had reached beyond the roof of the building where I worked. A tunnel had to be dug to to get to the door. This was in 2010.

  108. I’ve never had even a remotely decent camera (and right now I don’t have one at all!) so I’ve never even tried to take a weather shot. I’d love to capture ice on bare trees though–I love that!

  112. I have a wonderful picture of a rainbow next to some purplish clouds that I took a few years ago. It was weird because I had accidentally left me camera in the car after my step-daughters graduation and the next day I saw the rainbow outside of work and hurried and took it and it turned out beautiful.

  113. I have a picture from this years first snow up close on the close It looks kinda cool. Win this camera and should could get some awesome weather pics

  116. my husband takes most of the pictures, I like pictures taken in the fall of the year when everything is changing colors

  117. I have a picture of our house covered in tree branches after a tornado. The house was damaged but not as badly as you would think from the picture.

  119. I love taking pictures in the Fall! On the way to my Mom & Dad’s house I stopped and got out of the car to take a photo of the trees and road. Posted it on facebook and everyone loved it. I must admit it was a pretty great photo. Leaves were changed so the red, orange and yellow really made the sky pop.

  122. I haven’t gotten many good weather pictures, but I did get a good one of this flower after it rained. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiller93/5819620570/in/photostream

  123. was TRYING to take a picture of the amazing snow on tree branches – BUT apparently my cell phone camera went dead – it would be AMAZING to have been able to capture that

  125. i took a picture of snow…it was a cloudy day and it was snowing. the trees were covered by snow and i had the feeling that i am in a Fairly tale…:)))

  127. My best weather picture was post-rain I was walking my dog and while he was handling his business I was looking at the plants and the rain drops had landed on a spiderweb and amazingly the drops formed a heart! It was so pretty I took a pic of it with my phone and it is still one of my fave pics to date 🙂

  130. My favourite weather picture (recently) was in January when Belgium was very snowy. I live in a big building and I have an amazing East view to the town and the park. I remember shoting the sun rising one morning before work. It was very nice white/orange contrast (sun behind the snowy tree branches ) and it all looked very fresh 🙂

  131. If I had lucky enough to win the camera, would make a beautiful picture with my boyfriend! =D

  132. It’s the best giveaway I ever see. I will be really happy if i win, because i really like to take a photo but i havent got money to have a better camera 🙁 if i win it i will be the hapiiest person in the world .. 🙂

    • I think if i have that camera i would take photo of my ”models” i mean my friends or etc. i like also take photo my cat and another things .. when it is winter photos are seemd more beautifull than in another day.. but in summer can also do a great photos . my best weather picture ? i think it s a picture in July when the sun is behind the tree and it looks really nice 🙂 there we can see something what triggers emotion. 🙂 it that picture:

  133. I once took a picture of the sunset in a clearing of winter trees. The golden light gave such an indescribably glowing aura to the trees. I’ve never been able to find such amazing lighting since xD

  135. My favorite photo is where my baby is looking at a rose whos petels are falling do to the change of seasons from summer to autumn, I think its a beautiful image, the image of the rose captures life and the time factor as it emphasizes the development of itself. I love it!

  136. My favorite and best weather picture is picture of my town park in snow. In that white snow was one tree with green leaf’s. It was beautiful!

  137. My best weather picture is of my daughter lying in the snow. She was surrounded by so much white and her bright blue eyes just popped.

  140. I took a picture of the snowy trees one time here in Canada, and it was really beautiful… wish I still had it.

  141. My best weather pic is from living in the north, after heavy snowfalls capturing all the crisp snow sitting on the tree branches creating ice and the sun shining though!

  142. About a month ago we got hot with 30-35 centimeters of snow in one day, although it was a lot to shovel, the site of my home town was beautiful.. white everywhere 🙂 Just breathtaking !!

  143. My best weather picture was taken when we went to Cuba a couple of years ago. It was a picture of the beach when the sun was out, and every time I look at it I remember how perfect the day was.

  146. My best picture is when it is snowing and I am outside with my family playing. I love to capture the faces of my children in the snow.

  150. I just love to take pictures of our beautiful Canadian winters, when the trees are all snow or ice covered…the pictures are breathtaking, almost look fake..love to walk down a path in the forest and get them all lined up…or in the fall when all the trees are red orange and yellow..stunning…thanks for this giveaway…be dying to get a really good camera.

  151. My hubby captured a wicked wind storm (it actually turned out to be a tornado). We live in NW Ontario, not known for tornadoes, so it was strange. Eerie. Middle of the day, and the sky was nearly black.

  152. It was autumn and we were at the scenic lookout over looking Georgian Bay. I took a picture of my kids.

  154. My best picture was in the winter when we had heavy fog overnight and the next morning the trees were loaded with frost and sparkled like diamonds with the sun shining on them.

  157. My favorite weather picture is of a vivid rainbow appearing to emerge from the middle of the ocean after an afternoon downpour on Father’s Day 2012.

  158. My best weather pic was taken on a foggy morning with my camera phone. It was a pic of the formation of water drops built up on a spider web…really cool picture!

  159. my favourite weather shot was a picture of my son splashing in a puddle with a rainbow in the background

  160. Weather is not something I normally photograph…but last summer at a weekend concert…I must say I got some awesome shots in the poring rain….as awesome spectical…some most fabulous artists showcased in mother natures glory….Let it rain!

  161. I’ve taken some awesome shots of the snow we get here in Northern Ontario, in particular one showing snow piled up along the banks of a small creek that runs near my house.

  162. I absolutely love taking pictures. My best/ favorite picture is on a lake. The sky was beautiful and if u turn the picture upside down it looks the same bc of the reflection of the lake.

  163. I love to take pictures of scenery, family,baby grandkids different expressive gestures and faces.!!

  164. About 2 years ago we had a green Christmas and then on boxing day we got snow. As my husband and I were walking with our kids to the local park I snapped a picture of the snow covered path we were walking because it looked so beautiful. I have had several comments on the photo and when I tell people where the photo was taken they look at me agaog because they cannot believe it is the same place.

  165. sunny bright winter day, we live out in country and I took a picture of our lane way with the snow and trees, posted it on the weather network and lots of views and likes. really pretty

  169. I had to work during the October 2011 snowstorm, so I have a great album of progression pics of the snowfall!

  171. I love taking photos in the summer, with strong lights and silhouettes… I love the mystery!

  173. my favorite weather photo is of my daughter a couple of years ago throwing a snowball. it was the last time we got snow.

  176. The weather where I’m at has also been crazy lately. Way colder than it’s been at this time of year than what I remember. Anyways, thank you for this giveaway! I’d love to win this so I can really kick off my blog!

  178. My best weather picture – I have misplaced it 🙁 but I remember taking a picture of my puppy playing in the snow and he had snow on his nose haha, it was so cute! 🙂

  180. My best weather picture was of a double rainbow(not the famous Youtube one, lol)… and it didn’t turn out so well because of my not-so-great camera 🙁 .

    Would love to win a Canon!

  182. I need a better camera because my camera does not take pictures as should be.And would be great take photos to my outfits with canon rebel to show them to my followers 🙂

  183. This giveaway is amazing because I love photography and filming, and I was going to work in the summer to buy a new camera, and If I won this it would mean the world to me!!

  185. I have a pic of my son a little before sunset running on the beach in Trinidad with storm clouds in the background. I love the way he was reflected on the wet sand and the colours of the clouds.

  186. I love taking pictures of my kids playing in nature all year long. I loved watching play in the puddles with their umbrellas last year!

  189. In monsoon the year before last we had gone bike riding in the hills with family and friends.. it was so beautiful! we could just set up tents along the ghats and live there for ever! 🙂 Miss it real bad. there were beautiful farm beds on the hills and small huts alongside. And everywhere you could seee a splash of geen.

  195. The best was when we were at the beach. The beautiful rainbow was out and the little one was enjoying the sand!

  200. Pink sunrise-the pink shading only lasted for a few minutes-made the homes look like they were in a pink mist.

  202. In January we had some snow (in the south like yourself) and I thought – AHHH these would make amazing pictures for some outfits. So it had a beautiful snowy backdrop … only problem is, instead on some stylish boots or heels I had some wellies on. Oh well – they did get some love, despite their clumpy exterior!

    I have everything crossed:D Would be amazing!
    xxx

    • I also took a photo on the roof of my hotel in barcelona with our pool looking out onto the bright blue sea and bright blue sky. it’s my happy place

  206. My favorite weather photos would have to be rainy nights in a lit area and spring days. Thank you fir the opportunity

  207. I was riding the ferry on my way to high school (which was several years ago) and managed to get a neat shot through the fog of all the cars coming down the hill and loading onto the boat. The fog was so thick you could hardly see the end of the boat, so it was just headlights coming out of a curtain of bleak grey.

  211. My best weather pictures was when I captured the quite after a snow and everything looked so peacefull and calm, and the view was incredible, threes full of snow, everything was white. A dream picture.

  214. I have a blog and I’ve been dying to create some fantastic photography to make it look more professional. A DSLR camera would really do the trick!

    My favorite weather to capture? Oddly, I love taking photos when it is a little cloudy. Every cloud has such character!

  216. We were having a picture perfect day in the middle of summer. The sky was this beautiful bright sky blue. I took a picture of the sky with the extra puffy clouds. I used it as my screensaver for years.

  219. I love taking winter pictures – (I don’t love winter – just the pictures:-). I took one recently of some frost on a branch close up and it was pretty cool. I also did one of the old barn at my parent’s with the snow all around it – I love how it turned out.

  220. Omg I would LOVE to win 🙂
    I would say I love summer pictures with the blue sky.
    Email: sophie.pocock1@gmail.com

    pocockins.blogspot.co.uk
    Sophie
    xx

  223. OMGI would love to win!
    I’m a fashion blogger, so a good camera and weather really is the key to my photographys..

    louiewadaofficial@gmail.com

  224. My best weather picture would probably have to be when I was in San Antonio, and I was able to get a quick shot with a disposable camera of the rain falling on the river walk. Surprisingly, when the picture was developed, this “quick shot” turned out to be the best picture out of the bunch. I love rain, so I’m biased. 🙂

    I would love to win this camera, as everyone else would, too. It’s such a great opportunity!

  225. My best weather photos are of a snow storm that occurred about a year or so ago in Washington state. It was about mid-afternoon and the grey snow clouds covered most of the sky with just a hint of sun peeking through. Within 10 minutes the snow was coming down hard enough to cover the Alder trees, ground, and just about everything else surrounding our home. I managed to take some amazing pictures of large snow flakes as they were falling using just my cheap Kodak camera. I also managed to capture my two now 13 year old dogs playing in the new fallen snow. My pups are no longer with me so these pics are even more meaningful to me now.

    callawishes(at)hotmail(dot)com

  232. I took a picture of a snow storm starting on a mountain in Valdez, AK it is beautiful

  233. I was a cadet at NMMI and it was a cool, foggy day. The photo of Hagerman Barracks looks awesome!

  234. My best weather picture happened at my daughter’s 5th birthday party. There was a quick shower and then the sun came back out. A beauthiful rainbow appeared in front of our house and I got a great photo of it.

  238. I have a neat photo taken during an October snow. It is a picture of an oak tree with it’s leaves and right next to it an evergreen covered in snow.

  239. I take pictures of the orange trees in the Florida sun and send them north in the winter

  240. When I was much younger (currently haven’t had a camera in years) I got a terrific shot of the dog playing in the snow in the woods.

  241. I have an awesome picture of my daughter that was taken last fall, she had leaves coming down all around her and the look on her face was of pure excitement. I love that picture.

  242. we had an icestorm back in 09 and there was inches of ice everywhere but I thought it was pretty and took pictures of the ice on the trees it was a pretty picture.Thanks for this giveaway.

  243. I took a photo of ice hanging off our palm trees. It was so neat looking, and I’m glad it is a rarity! Thank you for the amazing giveaway!
    Erin E
    fairyfractal at gmail dot com

  246. My favorite photo is of a severe spring storm-I was lying on the deck and took a shot overhead. The clouds were exploding and pushing downward. Love that photo!

  247. i caught a picture of a double rainbow over some railroad tracks on my way to class one morning. it was beautiful and dingy at the same time.

  249. I took a picture of a red moon once that came out awesome, I had it blown up and put it on the wall. I know its not really a weather picture

  251. When we had a blizzard in January (I think), the windows were iced up and I took a really cool picture of that.

  252. My best weather picture is of a water tornado that we had taken at the shore a few years back.

  254. It was quite some time ago. I was with a school group and we traveled to Ireland. I think I was a junior in high school. We just left the Waterford plant where the crystal is made and there over the building was a rainbow and I was able to get that and it came through on the photo.

  255. it’s a picture of it snowing one day. it was gorgeous. the sun was shining and they were huge snowflakes

    kport207 at gmail dot com

  259. One time we got a bit of snow and the lighting was perfect. My crappy camera was able to take some great pics of everyone for once. lol

  261. The unexpected ones are the best…there was a lightning storm (no rain), so I was able to sit outside and take some pretty awesome shots!

  267. My best weather picture was a gorgeous sunset in Miami, FL at the iconic Jimbo’s Place. Sadly it was with a sub-par camera so not as good as it could have been! Would love to step up my game with this one!

  268. A picture of the family at the park on a beautiful fall day!
    ptavernie at yahoo dot com

  269. My best weather picture was one I took after a winter storm. It was early in the morning when I took the picture and the trees were covered in ice. The sunrise reflecting off of the ice made for a beautiful picture.

  270. I have some pictures going South on I-75 in Ohio of the sunset after a storm that are incredible.

  273. my cat playing in the snow.it was cute he didnt know what to think about it.

  274. My best weather picture was taken last summer, during a thunderstorm–I managed to catch a bolt of lightning on camera!

  275. I got a picture of a trio of sister tornadoes when we were driving through South Dakota.

  276. I got a great picture of my dog last fall. He was laying in a bed of clovers on a beautiful sunny day.

  278. I have some really cool ones of abandoned factories on a foggy day. I took them in B&W to make them look even better.

  280. I’m not sure exactly what you mean by best weather picture, but I’ll tell you that the worst weather I’ve ever encountered for taking pictures was on my trip to Taiwan where it was so humid that our first pictures together with our adopted daughter look like we were in a deep fog bank.

  281. My best weather picture is a foggy picture. I was driving into town and when I looked on my right with is a field and a lake. it was just a cool interesting look. I pulled over and took a couple photos

  282. after the blizzard in RI this year, i took a bunch of great photos (as great as possible with current cam) of the kids playing in the snow. also just took some great photos of the snow everywhere

  283. My best weather picture is one I took from my kitchen window late at night after the first snowfall. It was a nice serene picture of my car sitting in the driveway covered by the snow and the street was deserted.

  288. My best weather picture is a picture I took while visiting Rome with my husband of a cross at the Coliseum that was there to honor all of the gladiators that lost their lives. It took it looking up at the cross with just a clear sky above, and the way the lighting was that day it came out look black and white and beautiful…love that picture! I have it framed!

  289. I have several, but there is one picture of the ocean in florida that I took during one of their severe storms that htey were having at the time. It is spectacular!

  290. A lightning bolt hitting a church steeple. A powerful photograph.

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  292. I was at the beach in South Africa. The weather was beautiful & sunny. The entire view of the sun hitting the water was simply amazing!

  294. My favourite picture is of a winter sunset that I took about a year ago. I had the print made into a canvas!

  295. My best weather pic was when I lived in Yosemite National Park, I would get up early in the spring when the snow was on the ground and the sun would just start to hit the valley floor and all the ice crystals off of Yosemite falls gave off little rainbows on the mountain

  296. I have a great pic with my family on a day when we saw a rare double rainbow after a thunderstorm.

  298. my best would be a pic of our flooded front yard when irene came too vermont it was pretty deep

  301. When we took the kids to the park in the evening and the moon was trying to shine through the fog. It was awesome.

  302. Last October, I took some photos of our first snow and happened to get my dog in it, just sitting watching me. She looked cute in the snow 🙂

  303. A thunderstorm rolling in over the Gulf of Mexico in an otherwise sunny day. It was amazing looking.

  304. I have the biggest and brightest rainbow picture.. I made my boyfriend pull over so I could take the picture..

  305. My niece, Shea, is the photographer in the family. She is very gifted. She loves the outdoors and it really shows in her photographs. I would love to win this for her 17th birthday next month!

  312. During Spring I get some of the best pictures. Nature looks so pretty with everything growing all around.

  315. my best weather photos are of my best friend and i hanging out on a raft in the lake!

  317. My best weather picture is of my kid’s seeing the snow for the first time. The look on their faces are amazing!

  318. I got some great fall pictures when we visited the Smokey Mountains last Thanksgiving. The leaves were still really pretty and I was able to get some great shots near a stream and also some good ones in Cades Cove.

  319. got a great photo of our yard when we got a light snow a few weeks ago.

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  320. My best weather picture would be when I was on the lake in Canada and snapped a photo of the trees changing colors, this was at least a couple years ago during fall time. It was so pretty!

  322. I once took a pic of my daughter swinging from a monkey bar, and I took it from a downward angle…and I didn’t realize it at the time but somehow the camera caught the sun setting behind her and it was like a purple glow across the entire sky. Perfection.

  324. I have a picture somewhere of MASSIVE balls of hail that we had here in San Diego a few years ago. I’m surprised those things didn’t do any damage!

  325. My best weather picture was a shot of an orange tree with oranges hanging on it… and the ground below was covered with hail (southern california rarity)

  327. Last year I was fooling around with my new camera and I took a few sunset shots down at the beach.. They turned out fantastic. I was very excited.

  329. I have a pictures of a snow flake that I took with my iphone and a magnifying glass attachment . It looks so neat with the crystals

  331. My best weather picture was actually accidental! I was showing my friend how to change the settings on my camera & I took a picture of the sky. It was a summer afternoon & the sun was hiding. It looked majestic 🙂

  334. i have a beautiful picture of the snow on all the trees in our wooded back yard

  338. Some months ago, on what is designated as Camera Day, we had some evil looking storm clouds in the sky that were lined up like tracks. They were pretty intense looking, and the random spurts of rain and lightning matched up every now and then. It would later end up being very sunny.

  339. Best weather picture would be from a rainy hike. My friend and I climbed vertical cliffs, one without a rope (just vines). Had some epic footage, and then it started raining and made it more epic.

  341. My best friends and I took a picture in chicago while it was snowing and we were ice skating.

  343. My best shot is of a storm front moving in all blue sky on one side and a thick wall of black clouds rolling in

  344. My best weather shot was the stormy skies shown through branches of a tree that still held crisp autumn leaves.

  348. One of my favorite weather picture was our house and yard buried in New England snow. I sent this to my friends in Florida, Oklahoma and Texas.

  349. We just recently got 19 inches of snow within the last two snow storms over the last two weeks. I took a beautiful picture of the snow weighing down the tree limbs, it’s so beautiful. As much as I hate driving in the snow, it sure is pretty.

  350. I have a beautiful picture of our backyard covered with snow. The wind was blowing so hard, that even our fence was covered in snow.

  351. A storm gathering over Yosemite and Half Dome. Lightning in the distance. Taken from Glacier Point.

  352. I took a picture of a piece of siding that flew a few miles to my yard during a tornado

  353. I work up by our State Capitol and a few weeks ago we had a small snow storm that only lasted a couple of hours (and promptly melted) but before it melted I got a really cool photo of the capitol covered in snow!

  355. My best weather picture was after a recent snowstorm. I took a close up picture of a tree covered in snow with the blue sky in the background.

  357. My best and favorite weather picture is when we had a blizzard and my husband dug a path for the dogs. I took a picture of him and the dogs. It really showed how much snow we had.

  358. I like pictures I got of it lightly snowing and tree branches already dusted with snow.

  359. When I went to Mexico last year and the sun was blazing and the trees looked gorgeous!

  361. A few years ago we had a major winter storm that dumped so much snow that you could not see any cars parked in the street, but it really was beautiful .

  364. We get to the beach just after sunrise & the beach looks so peaceful and beautiful thats what I like to photograph my son got a photo of a fox there once.

  365. We had a classic snowfall Christmas Eve, all the branches had a couple inches or more more of snow on them and I ran out and took pictures of our home here in northern NY and emailed them to the extended family in the southern states.

  366. I like the late day light to take pictures of milk weed in my garden. Beautiful.

  368. Living in Calgary, I’ve managed to get some great pictures of the chinook arch especially at around sunset.

  369. It wouldn’t win any awards, but I’m glad I captured the moment: I was at the coast visiting friends on vacation and a storm came in. It rolled across the sky in a rolling wall cloud. The stark contrast between blue sky and dark grey, rolling clouds was intense!

  371. I don’t know that they are the best but my favorites are pictures of snow because it rarely snows here

  373. I took some pictures of my sister log cabin while it was snowing. They really captured the feeling. The lighting was perfect.

  374. A partly cloudy sunset at the summer carnival 🙂 Ferris wheel in the foreground with the colorful clouds behind! 🙂

  377. I took a picture of my children with in a snowdift that was taller than they are.

  378. Our beautiful granddaughter sitting on a pile of leaves on a beautiful fall afternoon with the sun shinning on her

  379. My wife loves Canon products. Can’t beat the photos it takes in thunder storms along the lake.

  380. My best weather photo was of the core of a tornado that was forming directly overhead. You could actually see the directional rotation of the cloud formation. Being a severe weather spotter, I reported the activity, which was confirmed on radar. The rotation increased and actually formed a tornado which struck several communities about 60 miles east of my position. The photo was used on air by our local television station.

  381. i got a picture of a wall of clouds in florida, the bottom of it was a perfectly straight line across of dark gray and then suddenly clear blue skies

  382. I live in FL, lightning capital of the world. I’ve been trying to get a great pic of a lightning bolt for so long. Maybe if I win this camera, I’ll get that pic!

  385. I miss my Canon camera (it was stolen) and I Loved taking pictures of family, pets, scenic pictures. But one of my best pictures was after it rained, Taking pictures of a clear Los Angeles, and the Valley after a rainy day is picture perfect.

    Thank you…Single Dad Danny

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  386. I live in southen north carolina. I had snowed and I took a picture of two big pine trees with freash wet snow. It was so pretty.

  389. I got an awesome picture of the snow capped mountains while the clouds were still over the area. Amazing photo.

  390. I caught some ball lightning once when I lived in Orlando, FL. Unfortunately I don’t have the photo anymore, but it was a good one.

  394. I took a great picture last year of the fall leaves on the trees. I framed it.

  395. My best weather picture was after a snow storm that at first had rained a bit so the snow clung to the trees and such. everything was outlined in perfect white and looked lacy.

  396. I took a picture a little over a year ago, there was a storm brewing and the clouds were very full and there was light coming from behind them. It is an awesome picture.

  397. My favorite weather picture is one I have of a lightning bolt striking in the field behind my house.

  399. My best weather picture is a shot of the piles & piles of freshly, fallen snow in Boston during the 2013 blizzard (Nemo). Friends & I braved the cold and walked around a bit to take pics of Harvard Square & campus while it was still pretty, white & fresh before it became dirty, dark, yellow & not so pretty.

  400. I have none but a rainbow. My brother caught a twister outside his door in Denver though. Seriously awesome!

  401. Back when I took pictures with film I tried to take a picture from my front porch of the huge snowflakes falling. When the pictures were developed I found that almost none had come out. But one that did turn out had not only some big, big clumps of snow falling, but it also ended up having the a crystal from the heart-shaped wind chime lit up from a red Christmas light. It was very pretty.

  402. ducks in the rain
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  403. My best weather picture had to have been the rainbow in Aruba over the top of the lighthouse! It turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!

  405. Would LOVE to win this!!! Not only to take pictures of the beautiful scenery in this part of the US, but to take pictures of my gorgeous great grandchildren. I only get to see them twice a year so having pictures of them to look at in between would be wonderful!! I don’t have a camera so this would really be great!!!!

  407. All I have are cell phone pictures of sunny days and clouds haha
    One time while we were vacationing in Branson I got a really nice picture of a rainbow though!

  409. Taken during winter storm nemo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77574481@N03/8457732437/in/set-72157632719763657

  412. I love taking pictures of snow. I got some really nice ones from all the storms this year.

  413. My best weather picture, was when my husband and I went on our honeymoon and we bought a water proof camera and took pictures from the Maid of the Mist while going near the falls… spectacular!

  417. I love my picture I took when I visited my husband’s home in Alaska. It was just of trees and snow but I love it.

  418. My hubby snapped a cool pic of some lightning in Bulgaria.

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  419. I live in South Florida and we do not really get to experience much change in weather. Late September of last year, I went to New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont) with my boyfriend. We got a beautiful panoramic photo of a windy day in the mountains with different colored leaves flying through the air. That is my favorite weather photo of a windy day.

  420. One of the only weather pictures I have is of the cloudy sunset from my last day of vacation. Not a good idea to wait until the last day to get a good sunset.

  422. I have gotten some good pictures of the various snow storms we’ve had over the years.

  423. Please Enter Me In Your Giveaway.
    It Would Be Great To Win The Canon EOS Rebel Camera.
    In Response To Your Requirement To Tell you about my best weather picture.
    I Have A Photograph Of Lightning Taken During A Thunderstorm.
    I Like Watching Lightning.
    Thank You For Having This Giveaway!!!!!!!!

  424. Thanks for the giveaway…took some nice winter-scapes on a trip to Norway a few years ago.

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