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Blixtar (Lightningbolts)

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I woke up in the middle of the night by a huge thunderstorm, I got up in a nanosecond and drove under the storm to the sea, there were lightningbolt flying all over the place..

These babies was taken from the backside of the storm I mounted up the FM3a on a small video tripod on the passanger seat of my car and shot about 6-8 minute exposures as long as there was anything worth photographing... I got two photos with big lightningbolts on and this one is my favorite. I decided to no go to wide as I have experience of really small lightningbolts on wideangle photos, this is 50mm (fullframe and unmanipulated)

 

I used Fuji Velvia 50 Film in my Nikon FM3a camera 50/1.4 lens about 8 minute exposure.

Made at Fäboda, Jakobstad, Finland.

 

I like to hear what you think. I love creative comments, I have no problem with negative such as long as it's somewhat constructive.

 

EDIT: 9'th of March 2007, replaced the photo with a better scan (with less jpeg artifacts)

EDIT: 2'nd September 07, added a copyright stamp on the photo and made it too small to use in print, found it on a Chinese picture bureau, with a link right back to the large size on flickr...

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Uploaded on March 28, 2006
Taken sometime in 2007