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I was photographing a thunderstorm to the northwest, when new storms arrived in the south to southeast. An angry sky came in with some vivid lightning bolts.
I like shooting storms at dusk......
The Olympus camera Live Composite function
Single shot. The lightning almost like sun casting its ray onto the sea.
Lightning captured with a Canon Powershot SD1100 running the CHDK and a motion detect script.
I am not sure why there's a faint double-image of the lightning bolt - the obvious answer is reflection on the double pane window, except I've taken lots of lightning photos through these windows and not usually gotten that effect.
When I went to bed, there was a prediction of lightning bearing down on us, so I set up this one camera running the motion detect script behind the curtain. I thought about setting up the rest of my cameras but I was really tired and needed to get up early and had only seen some faint sheet lightning so far. Also, when I leave cameras in the windows facing east, I have to either get up at 5am or let them sit in the direct morning sunlight for hours, which I don't think is so great for them, so I often only want to risk it for the old camera I don't care about as much. So, I only set up one camera and went to bed. Then when I woke up in the morning and saw these beautiful clear lightning strikes, I really kicked myself for not staying up a little later to watch the storm and for not setting up the other cameras. I clearly missed a good opportunity. But at least I got a couple photos on this camera.
Das Wetter im Juli prägen oft Gewitter der kleineren aber auch der größeren Art. Am ersten Augusttag 2017 kündigte sich in der Hofer Gegend ein kräftiges Gewitter an. Vom Wartturm im Osten Hofs konnte ich die Blitze beobachten wie sie über Hof niedergingen. Auf dem Volksfest dürfte der Regenschauer und das Gewitter für eine kurze Pause in den Fahrgeschäften geführt haben. Ich selbst verzog mich kurze Zeit später in mein Auto, da das Gewitter direkt über mir weiterzog.
Lightning Strike
The weather in July is often marked by heavy and small thunderstorms. On the first day of August 2017 a strong storm was forcasted over the Hof region. The Wartturm in the east of Hof was a good viewpoint to watch the lightning strikes. At the local festival the storm caused probably a short interruption. Shortly after I took this picture I buckled into my car - the thunderstorm was directly above me.
An unbelievable lightning storm last night passed us by to the North. This is an 8-second exposure. To watch it in real time was just amazing. Constant flickering with bolts coming out of the clouds with a speed that seemed like a time-lapse.
Here is the video I took with my phone.
A strong thunderstorm drops lightning bolts over the foothills of the eastern Carpathian mountains, Romania.
Electrical Storm
Ground Strike and Cloud Loop
Campbelltown, NSW.
This may be a single lightning event or two separate events across the 30 second exposure period.
2021-10-23
A Green Heron (Butorides striatus) . . . at 1/2000 of a second his strike was hardly slowed to a crisp shot.
I had just finished setting up and was watching him as he became aware that he had something in his sights . . . After watching him for a minute or two, I decided to take the shot and move on because they often stare for minutes on end and sometimes do not strike at all. When I snapped the pictured he struck at his prey. This image does not show how far out his neck extended to catch the food and drag it back to himself, but you can get an idea of his extension by the drag-trail. The Green Heron measures about 16-22 inches (40-55 cm) from beak-tip to tail-tip.
. . . and I can't help but be impressed by the strength in his legs to hold him so strongly in this bent-over position throughout the capture.
Forecasted rain failed to materialize but had a thunderstorm drop over 30mm of rain in just over an hour. Caught this bolt with a lightning trigger.
A large storm passed over with very heavy rain and wind making it impossible to shoot outside, managed some strikes through the window
495th FS F-35A beating up the gloomy Welsh LFS recently! 🇺🇸
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Liberty Hill, Texas. Storm developed very quickly and I was positioned in front of its path, like an idiot. Worth it for this shot though. Quite spectacular!
Lightning strike taken from the 12th floor of the Siam@Siam hotel in Pattaya, Thailand.
It took a long time to catch this shot. #lightning #700D #tamron #thailand
Strong gust front thunderstorm with some nice cg lightning SW of Springfield, IL.
Nikon D3200
Nikon 18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 lens
ƒ/8.0
24.0 mm
5 sec.
iso200
WB 5650K
Noise Reduction ON
remote shutter release
The last day of the meteorological summer was also the best for lightning photography.
I chased a storm over the central and eastern part of The Netherlands and managed to take great lightning photographs in the valley of the river IJssel.
More photographs of this chase will follow.....
Last of my lightning captures that was worthy of posting taken down at Middle River. Waiting for the next time this can happen either here or at another neat location.
From previous post to this of the heron ... this view can give you a feel for how close the heron came in as I was about halfway out on this pier and the heron flew between me and the benches there at the end of the pier.
A large storm passed over with very heavy rain and wind making it impossible to shoot outside, managed some strikes through the window
Catching lightning the hard way, click and hope. There was so many lightning strikes that evening I was able to catch two, this one I had forgotten I had.
This morning was a wonderful light show. And through it all I never got wet! This one is a compilation of several lightning strikes taken at the beach in Deerfield.