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Title: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: captpete on July 12, 2014, 03:39:54 PM
We had a lot of rain in June and I was finally able to get across the creek to retrieve my trail camera. Here is a pretty cool picture sequence of a flash flood. The creek is about 20' behind the doe in the first pic. Just for perspective, the camera is about 5' off the ground and from the top of the bank to creek is also about 5'. It was roughly 50 hrs. from the 1st pic to the last.

7:50 AM on the 19th a doe & fawn feeding past the camera...it had rained/stormed off & on all night, receiving 2" -3" of rain.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/PyreCapt/trail%20pics/DSC01854_zpsf15c77c0.jpg) (http://s26.photobucket.com/user/PyreCapt/media/trail%20pics/DSC01854_zpsf15c77c0.jpg.html)

HEAVY rain again in the afternoon...2" -3" in about 1 - 1 1/2 hrs.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/PyreCapt/trail%20pics/DSC01855_zpsc46b463f.jpg) (http://s26.photobucket.com/user/PyreCapt/media/trail%20pics/DSC01855_zpsc46b463f.jpg.html)

4 hrs later.......had 137 pics just like this one.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/PyreCapt/trail%20pics/DSC01856_zps96093796.jpg) (http://s26.photobucket.com/user/PyreCapt/media/trail%20pics/DSC01856_zps96093796.jpg.html)

3 hrs later, the water is starting to drop.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/PyreCapt/trail%20pics/DSC01964_zps09cab8ac.jpg) (http://s26.photobucket.com/user/PyreCapt/media/trail%20pics/DSC01964_zps09cab8ac.jpg.html)

6 hrs. later after some more rain, it's coming back up. 58 more pics just like this one.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/PyreCapt/trail%20pics/DSC01969_zps8ac21cb7.jpg) (http://s26.photobucket.com/user/PyreCapt/media/trail%20pics/DSC01969_zps8ac21cb7.jpg.html)

30 hrs. later the creek is back down & a doe and fawn are moving through. You can see the creek in the background behind the deer....it is still up, but in it's banks.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/PyreCapt/trail%20pics/DSC02037_zpscf25ab26.jpg) (http://s26.photobucket.com/user/PyreCapt/media/trail%20pics/DSC02037_zpscf25ab26.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: rem 300 on July 12, 2014, 04:13:06 PM
WOW!!! That cam took a beating and still taking pics. What kind of trail camera is it? Cool pics too!!
Title: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: fastford04 on July 12, 2014, 04:33:41 PM
Whoa that's awesome


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Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: guesswho on July 12, 2014, 05:13:00 PM
Cool!  The camera mfg. would probably like to see that series of pictures.
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: bbcoach on July 12, 2014, 05:54:44 PM
Quote from: guesswho on July 12, 2014, 05:13:00 PM
Cool!  The camera mfg. would probably like to see that series of pictures.
I bet the manufacture would throw a few cams your way for the rights to those pics.  It would be great advertisement for them.  COOL PICS!
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: Tail Feathers on July 12, 2014, 11:58:17 PM
I'm in the market for a new one, what brand can withstand that?  Impressive for sure!
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: El Pavo Grande on July 13, 2014, 12:38:48 AM
That is very cool!!!  Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: captpete on July 13, 2014, 08:13:24 AM
Thanks guys! I wish the manufacturer would step up and give me a couple of cameras, but I don't think that is going to happen....it is a homebrew camera that I built. It consists of a Sony P32 camera hooked up to a Snapshot Sniper board in a Plano 1425 case. 
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: SinGin on July 13, 2014, 09:27:28 AM
Well thats good advertising for your homebrews then
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: hookedspur on July 13, 2014, 01:07:21 PM
 :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: datrip on July 13, 2014, 05:26:25 PM
Boy they sure tell a story huh?
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: Cove on July 13, 2014, 07:24:53 PM
That's a cool sequence! We had something similar happen a few years ago. We had put out a few cameras on some public land in IL and it was about a month later that we got back up to check them. One of the cameras was on a dry creek bed and the other in a bottom. The one of the creek bed had pics of the water rising and a pair of wood ducks swimming by at camera level. Pretty cool. That camera didnt fair as well though. .  . . ..
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: slamman on July 13, 2014, 07:33:12 PM
thats a first crazy.
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: tomstopper on July 18, 2014, 08:44:03 PM
Neat. Looks like you already have a start to your marketing......lol
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: albrubacker on July 20, 2014, 10:43:38 AM
Very neat! Thanks for sharing! Good job making the camera
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: 2eagles on September 27, 2016, 07:20:57 AM
I'm not really that impressed with your underwater pictures. Seems to me at least one small fish must have swam by and you didn't get a picture of him. Back to the drawing board for you, my friend.   :goofball:  :lol:
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: captpete on September 27, 2016, 05:54:25 PM
Actually, I figured out that I had sensitivity setting to high and it was taking the pictures before the fish got in the field of view of the camera. There were a lot less blank pics after I changed it. :toothy12:
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: 2eagles on September 27, 2016, 09:58:29 PM
 :z-guntootsmiley:
Title: Re: Flash flood pics from a trail camera
Post by: mgm1955 on September 28, 2016, 09:57:11 PM
Cool pics, thanks for sharing.