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Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily equalize themselves,
# LIGHTNING MINIMALISMO redux
# peculiar low-fi electrostatic discharge, peeking out through the trees and clouds, after a strong storm had passed through ...
The Powerhouse at Stave Falls is a 100 year old powerhouse with historical displays, electricity demonstrations and many interactive exhibits. Location; The Powerhouse at Stave Falls is located at 31338 Dewdney Trunk Road in Mission, B.C.
> "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
Van Gogh
> another recent handheld Lightning image! Shot up close and personal. Standing right out in the wide open, shooting the sky furiously and continuously! Psst. Kids, don't try this at home! Jajajaja! Seriously. #peligro #danger
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# another find from a wildly diverse image cache discovered on a drop drive several weeks back. why post? why not? when the whim strikes me... and thank you for stopping by! skäl. 8^)
# A PIECE OF A RECORDED ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE SEQUENCE SHOT IN TEXAS BY MR. TRONA [WITH A HANDHELD CAM], MAY 2016
© All rights reserved. A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency
This image comes from the night of August 6, 2015. We were out photographing the sunset (shot to come) and, right after, we noticed flashes to the south of Mt. Diablo. As luck would have it, several lightning-producing areas made their way by us to the northeast. Since we were north of the mountains, this seemed fortuitous.
In any case, it was a nice spectacle to behold, due to the fact that lightning, although certainly more frequent in decades past, has not exactly been a common phenomenon in the Bay Area of northern California in recent years.
Thanks for stopping by!
Anecdotal side-notes:
The golden lightning to the left was a number of miles farther south and with its light reaching the camera after passing through much rain (and perhaps smoke), thus giving its color.
Much of the artificial light you see is from petroleum refineries. I decided not to color-correct it.
You can see a shaft of rain being illuminated by lightning at the top, center-right.
We could also use this sort of event over the Golden Gate Bridge more often. Haha.
We were experiencing an intense thunderstorm and I noted that the lightning flashes/strikes were occurring about every six seconds. I grabbed my hand-held camera and tried to capture a strike (no lightning trigger, no remote, no tripod).
Et voila! This bolt struck the downtown Denver, Colorado area just before 6:00 PM. I was "struck" by the accompanying visible plasma field with this strike. The Rocky Mountains are West and directly behind this storm, but can't be seen (much) due to this severe storm and heavy rainfall.
# lo-fi nocturnal shööting in the beautiful language of electrostatic discharge -- from the trona storm archives
# courtesy the trona lo-fi science observatory, dark lab, s. central texas, may 2016 -- skäl!
The Quandry Chronicles Book One: The Lost Scarab of the Aethernauts! is an illustrated pulp adventure inspired by the tabletop gaming system Space: 1889 and shot in Second Life. Narrated in sessions like a tabletop campaign, QC will post weekly on Fridays, unless I get a bit ahead of myself :)
Dr. Kanwar Singh rubbed his eyes. His vision had darkened mysteriously, accompanied by fatigue and lightheadedness. As he catalogued a range of possible medical causes for his afflictions, he leaned back from his microscope. Oh – the sun had set, that was why. He glanced at the brass clock on his cluttered desk. Some eight hours ago, it seemed. He had last eaten – lunch, surely? A glance around revealed a tea tray with the remains of breakfast. Oh well.
Another fruitless day’s research. He addressed the small brain floating in a jar of electrified liquid on a nearby shelf with a long, pained sigh. “Sekhmet dear, we are at an end. My success with you seems to have been a fluke, and every attempt to reanimate another mummy has been a dismal failure. Our electricity bill – well, I will pay it somehow, I promise. We *will* sustain your unlife, at any cost.”
A bundle of sooty linen rags mewed, rose, stretched, and padded over to him to rub its cat-shaped head against his leg. Singh reached down to idly skritch the mummified cat’s well-wrapped ears. Singh spun up a small electrostatic generator on his desk, then touched a finger to the ex-cat’s lips, with a zap and sting of a spark. The little mummy purred contentedly, filled again with the energies sustaining its reanimation.
Singh stretched, vertebrae popping. A large pile of unopened mail caught his eye, and he sighed. “No good here, I’m sure!” Bills, bills, past-due bills, death threats, a Bible wrapped in death threats – an invitation? No one invited him to anything anymore: both the successes and the failures of his research had put an end to his welcome in professional circles.
A collection of photographs of a newly-uncovered ancient Egyptian city? Of some interest, perhaps –
A covering note came unclipped and wafted down to the desk before him.
“My dear Doctor Singh:
“While we have not met, I have followed your work with the greatest interest and enthusiasm. I would beg you to be my guest at tomorrow’s reception- and when an opportunity permits, join me at a somewhat clandestine gathering in the Aeronautical Pavilion of the Crystal Palace. I am seeking experts in certain fields for an undertaking which promises to be profoundly rewarding, both intellectually and financially, and such a gathering would be incomplete without your presence.
Until tomorrow,
Yours,
E. A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Acquisitions
The British Museum”
Singh addressed the floating cat brain: “Maybe we can keep the lights on after all!”
An image I hadn’t shared from Barcelona. All the things I’ve photographed over the years, this was so exhilarating and quite frightening in equal measure. Taken from the dock Barcelona looking out from the ship. A huge storm moved in. youtu.be/do7flQnUg40 @UKNikon #lightning
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Bonjour tout le monde.
Mon dernier affichage était mon premier In Explore à vie et vraiment inattendu pour moi...
Ça fait un moment que j'étais inactif… Disons que l'année 2024 n'a pas vraiment été de tout repos pour ma conjointe et moi. J'ai également dû subir une intervention chirurgicale pour deux hernies linguales.
Énormément de gros travaux à effectuer sur la nouvelle maison, travaux que nous n'avions pas anticipés du tout. Pour faire court, pas de voyages en 2024, seulement de la photographie à proximité de notre nouveau domicile et dans le quartier et quand j'en ai eu le temps. Le seul point positif de 2024 pour nous fut la découverte de ce qui était à l'origine des terribles migraines de ma compagne depuis plusieurs années. Elle est extrêmement sensible aux ondes électrostatiques, en particulier celles émises par les réseaux sans fil WIFI. Ce n'est pas simple d'être actif sur Flickr dans de telles conditions. En résumé, 2024 une année difficile et épuisante. Je serai certainement beaucoup moins actif sur Flickr que par le passé jusqu'à ce que j'aie terminé l'installation filaire Ethernet dans les plafonds de la maison afin d'éviter le WIFI proprement dit.
Merci pour votre compréhension.
Hello everyone.
My last post was my first In Explore ever and really unexpected for me...
It's been a while since I was inactive... Let's just say that 2024 hasn't exactly been a restful year for my wife and I. I also had to undergo surgery for two lingual hernias.
A lot of major work to be done on the new house, work that we hadn't anticipated at all. To cut a long story short, no trips in 2024, only photography near our new home and in the neighborhood and when I had time. The only positive point of 2024 for us was the discovery of what was causing my wife terrible migraines for many years. She is extremely sensitive to electrostatic waves, especially those emitted by WIFI wireless networks in a house or anywere for that matter... It's not easy to be active on Flickr in such conditions. In short, 2024 was a difficult and exhausting year for us. I will probably be much less active on Flickr than I have been in the past until I have finished installing Ethernet wires in the ceilings of the house to avoid the actual WIFI.
Thanks for your understanding.
# lo-fi nocturnal shööting in the beautiful language of electrostatic discharge -- from the trona storm archives
# courtesy the trona lo-fi science observatory, dark lab, s. central texas, may 2016 -- skäl!
[ a woefully incomplete self portrait in the medium of electrostatic discharge ]
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# Tech outage persists [although I'm working on my broken/ill laptops not lost (stolen) in the move], so the old iphone is supplying odd images to post. Thank you for stopping by. Skäl!
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Paraclisul Sf. Filofteia, Manastirea Curtea de Argeş, Romania
St Philothea chapel [parekklesion] at Curtea de Arges Monastery
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I saw so many lightning strikes this day and I was only able to catch one... and one is all I needed :-) If I photograph any more lightning from the summer thunderstorms, it will be icing on the cake. Update: this storm was the only lightning storm we had last year.
As the storm starts to draw energy into itself, the air is filled with static electricity, which at ground level collects close to anything tall. When enough energy is collected lightning flashes vertically joining the ground to the clouds in a massive electrostatic discharge.
High Desert Storm Cell About 20 miles out.
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For a few moments during this last storm (11/15/18) there were a number of capped columns dropped. Interesting thing was that most seemed to stack together as seen here.
I'm assuming that there is an electrostatic charge that compels them to rotate their faces 30deg relative one another and offset their central columns as well.
11 individual frames, taken in crossed polarized, transmitted light and stacked in PS
# lo-fi nocturnal shööting in the beautiful language of electrostatic discharge -- from the trona storm archives [the trona lo-fi science observatory, dark lab, s. central texas, may 2017 -- skäl!
High Desert Lightning Over Lake Abert
7/20/24
After a nasty hot smoky day these started showing up just after sunset.
Storm passing through Alabama. Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge occuring typically during a thunderstorm. This discharge occurs between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between two clouds (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning).
A storm rolls through Pocatello, Idaho around 3:30 a.m. MDT, Sunday, August 21st, 2011.
While beautiful, this storm sparked at least three more wildfires in the area which fire crews are still hard at work containing. Lewis and Clark Elementary school is visible across the field.
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A lightning storm over Lake Ontario looking SSE. This was a 30 second exposure. The clouds are illuminated from multiple flashes that were within the clouds. I was lucky to capture these strikes in this exposure.
Dimension: about 5-7 cm wide.
I think this one deserves a bit of an explanation:
It's dendritic (branchlike) "growth" of dust particles on a (negatively) charged black polyethylene sheet.
Found by sheer luck while walking in my old city neighborhood, the polyethylene lined the inside of a shuttered storefront window, blocking the view of the empty space within.
Aided by airflow, the dust now makes the static electricity of the polyethylene visible. The dust looks very "clean" and white, which I think is due to its origin: lightweight gypsum walls (drywall) that were demolished or sanded inside the shop, resulting in this very fine white dust.
I didn't have my camera with me, so my old iPhone7 had to do, not an ideal situation, especially for a macro shot. And there is no chance for me to take another shot with my camera later either, as right after taking my cellphone pic, the storefront window was covered up (on the outside) in vinyl window graphics, which now hide this little dust dendrite.
Alas, nothing I can do about that. `¯\_(ツ)_/¯´
Exchanging Electrons with the Electromagnetic Field.
How does a Plasma Ball work?
Inside the globe, there is a high voltage electrode, which is powered by a Van de Graaff generator. When the electrode is energized, it creates an electric field inside the globe.
The electric field ionizes the gas molecules, stripping electrons from the atoms and creating a plasma. The free electrons accelerate in the electric field and collide with other gas molecules, causing them to emit light. The patterns of light that you see in a plasma ball are created by the movement of the electrons and ions in the plasma.
In this case, the Noble gas in the ball is 95% Neon and 5% Xenon.
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>>> ARCHIVE DIVING AGAIN, UNDER THE PRETENSE OF DATA RESTRUCTURE, ET AL. BUT I WAS TRYING TO FIND BETTER WAYS TO EXTRACT FRAMES FROM LO-FI ARCHIVES, AND IN LOOKING THROUGH RANDOM SAMPLES, TEND TO FIND THESE [MILDLY] MORE IDIOSYNCHRATIC EVENTS CAPTURE MY ATTENTION MORE... THAN OTHERS. PROST. 8^)
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What I know about lightning:
“Is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. This abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The electric current passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air into plasma producing acoustic shock waves (thunder) in the atmosphere” (Wikipedia dixit).
It’s a very spectacular phenomenon, specially at night.
It’s not easy to get a good capture if you don’t know how to do it. It’s pure chance.
It’s pure chance that your building gets struck by lightning.
So, I got this capture and three weeks later my building was struck by lightning.
I said goodbye to my monitor, printer, TV and toaster. CPU, Hi-Fi and microwaves survived (by chance).
Corollary: lightning and chance are two sides of the same coin.