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The moment of a lightning strike on a building 50m from me. Scared me half to death, hence no chance of a sharp image.
A Picket Fence deters Folk from getting too close to this stricken Oak in Richmond Park
Greater London. UK.
Lightning and fireflies
Light up the night just outside the town of Bonito MS during our night clicks. Some centas, ... thousands of fireflies, dance to the rhythm of aleatory flashes of the coming storm. Witness and be able to register this moment was one of my greatest gifts !!!!!
Raios e vagalumes
Iluminam a noite nos arredores da cidade de Bonito MS, durante nossos clicks noturnos. Algumas centas, milhares ... de vagalumes, dançam ao ritmo aleatório dos relâmpejos da tempestade que se aproxima. Presenciar e poder registrar este momento foi um dos meus maiores presentes !!!!!
Lightning lights up falling hail with a rainbow at sunset, taken south of the town of Superior, Nebraska.
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A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of strike, ground-to-cloud (GC) lightning, is upward-propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaching into the clouds. About 25% of all lightning events worldwide are strikes between the atmosphere and earth-bound objects. Most are intracloud (IC) lightning and cloud-to-cloud (CC), where discharges only occur high in the atmosphere. Lightning strikes the average commercial aircraft at least once a year, but modern engineering and design means this is rarely a problem. The movement of aircraft through clouds can even cause lightning strikes.
A single lightning event is a "flash", which is a complex, multistage process, some parts of which are not fully understood. Most CG flashes only "strike" one physical location, referred to as a "termination". The primary conducting channel, the bright, coursing light that may be seen and is called a "strike", is only about one inch (ca. 2.5 cm) in diameter, but because of its extreme brilliance, it often looks much larger to the human eye and in photographs. Lightning discharges are typically miles long, but certain types of horizontal discharges can be tens of miles in length. The entire flash lasts only a fraction of a second.
This storm had mostly in-cloud lightning. These were the best 4 frames with cloud to ground lightning.
May 28, 2022
Mission, South Dakota
An incredible, close range lightning storm that wreaked havoc over the small town of Mission. Lightning was so close I just set my camera outside and hopped back in the car to capture these strikes.
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church before lightning hit a couple of months ago and took the rooster and the top of the spire off. I'll try to get a picture of all the scaffolding up now as repairs progress slowly. AppleMark
another reason (not the damage) why I love my neighbourhood
Just a little bit of sunlight left. The lightning strikes continued well into the night.
ND4 filter
Aripeka, Florida
Late season in Tucson but with the heat and humidity the monsoon is hanging on a little longer. A storm cloud and lightning illuminating the foothills and desert plants. The planet Jupiter shines brightly in the upper right.
While shooting time lapse with the D750, I was lucky to catch a lightning strike on this scene. I also had the infrared camera set up with a lightning trigger and got this shot. I love that little tree so I thought it was worth posting two images of the scene.
Oklahoma Panhandle. May 21, 2017
In May, 2017 I went storm chasing in Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley, which stretches from Texas through to Nebraska, is the area of the U.S. which gets the most severe weather, and the most tornadoes, every spring. Over 8 days, I chased storms through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. What an incredible adventure it was!
I tried my hand at time lapse on this trip. If you'd like to see the time lapse film I made, it's on YouTube in 4K and on Flickr, too.
If you'd like see more images I took while storm chasing, take a look at my Storm Chasing album.
An incredibly close lightning strike lights up the landscape just east of Willcox, Arizona a few weeks ago!
I just wrapped a month on the road documenting monsoon season and teaching some incredible groups of students how to photograph lightning. It was one heck of a season full of close bolts, stunning storms and fiery sunsets. It sure is going to take some time to process these images but I can’t wait to share them with you!
Camera: Nikon Z9
Lens: Nikon Nikkor 14-24mm @18mm
Tripod: Really Right Stuff
Stacking lightning frames is challenging because every discharge has great dynamic range and can interfere with other bolt positions. It is rare not to have to apply dodging or burning via masking.
This image combined 38 separate frames without the need for any post processing other than lightening the stack in LightRoom. Sometimes, nature cooperates.
An extreme lightning storm crosses a dirt road and farmland on the high plains of Nebraska, USA.
2 images taken back to back, hand blended.
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The only perk from leaving work at 9 p.m. this evening. Caught this light show at Clymers, IN. Based on the weather report this line was on the OH/IN state line. The thunderheads must have been up to 50,000 to 60,000 feet. This is impressive since this photo was taken from North Central Indiana.