Haven't posted a lightning strike in what feels like AGES, which is probably far from the truth. Anyways, this was a towering strike that I cropped to fill the entire frame. The original capture had it a bit more to the left than I liked. When shooting lightning, sometimes you don't aim in the right spot and almost miss. So cropping is a fantastic way to recompose the image to get your bolt looking awesome.

In the realm of weather, a lightning strike that hits the surface of the earth is technically called "Cloud to Ground" or CG. These are the kind I of course go for. There are very, very rare occasions where "In Cloud" lightning creates an awesome image.

I have one of those rare ones that I'll post at a later day. One of my favorites.

Somewhere in Spain

Cloud shadows

Wolkenschatten

Credits: ESA/NASA

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Lake Spofford NH, July 2007

The morning was cold...but so worth

getting out there.

Sometimes our atmosphere looks incredibly complex and three-dimensional, sometimes you don't even see it.

Manchmal schaut unsere Atmosphäre unglaublich Komplex und dreidimensional aus, manchmal fast unsichtbar.

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© Angela M. Lobefaro

taken with a Nokia N80

The sky from my garden.

texture FREE for non commercial use in your personal artwork...

Dark clouds and sunshine

So give me reason to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean

Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes

Give me reason to fill this hole, connect the space between

Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies across this new divide

(LP - New devide)

From the archive....shot from a flight... I think I have another version back then. Here is another version.

nikon e 100 2.8

As far as I know, the colours are caused by the diffraction of sunlight by a thin layer of cloud made up of similar-sized small water droplets or ice crystals.

Wet Season

10/52

Did I mention I love cloud shadows? Here's this week's collection.

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Habe ich erwaehnt, dass mich Wolkenschatten faszinieren? Hier deshalb meine dieswoechige Sammlung.

Image ID: 364J8097

Credit: ESA/A.Gerst, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

(not HDR, just really crazy clouds)

same sky with silhouettes

The night sky. 35mm f1.8 at f11. -2 degrees F.

"Tu cielo se hace gris, yo ya camino bajo la tormenta..."

Out of the plane window after leaving the Puerto Galera area.

Lovely clouds and light this evening

Enormous cloud formations dominate the landscape on a hot, humid, summer's day in rural Queen Anne's County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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Panasonic LUMIX LX100-II

Moonlit Clouds. Brian Tomlinson Photography: www.bt-photography.co.uk

It feels like we're getting teased here in Riga. Sun shows up for a little while in the morning, giving us hope that today might be the day to spend more time outside. However it turns out not to be true. I'm so looking forward to March and spring!

Just before sunrise over the High Point City Lake Park.

Clouds illuminated by the setting sun

I absolutly forgot the name of that place...as I see it's near Cabo Girão

Sunset Cloud behind dead trees

Hwy 127, Tecopa, California, USA

I saw this amazing cloud over Johannesburg just before sunset today and just had to upload it. Unfortunately I only had my cellphone camera with me.

Does anyone know what type of cloud this is?