Lightning Everywhere
With the naked eye this seemed like a single flash with reflection and resonance from all points of the compass. The camera tells a quite different story — of complexity and multiplicity. The village at left is Palm Beach with Tallebudgera Creek and Big Burleigh (Jellurgal). The earth bolt hits the Pacific Ocean a few kilometres west of the Queensland Gold Coast. The hazy brightness top right is a cloud to cloud strike within or behind the cloud layer. The dark foreground is the bush on the Gold Coast hinterland. This was an eight second exposure and a small section of sky, just part of a storm which lasted about two hours affecting a huge area of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Lightning Everywhere
With the naked eye this seemed like a single flash with reflection and resonance from all points of the compass. The camera tells a quite different story — of complexity and multiplicity. The village at left is Palm Beach with Tallebudgera Creek and Big Burleigh (Jellurgal). The earth bolt hits the Pacific Ocean a few kilometres west of the Queensland Gold Coast. The hazy brightness top right is a cloud to cloud strike within or behind the cloud layer. The dark foreground is the bush on the Gold Coast hinterland. This was an eight second exposure and a small section of sky, just part of a storm which lasted about two hours affecting a huge area of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales.