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Developing high based storms over Belgium moved north towards The Netherlands.
These were fast moving storms so I had to act quickly to intercept them. I was just in time close to the historic town of Zaltbommel near the river Waal to capture these bolts.
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......
I'm on the East Coast this week! I took this picture last night. The original was pretty crappy; underexposed and the focus wasn't all that great. But I processed the hell out of it and turned a crappy picture into a mediocre picture! This picture looks good from far away but pretty crappy at full zoom. In the used car business, they call that a "50-footer". Looks good from 50 feet away, but that's about it!
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.
Just another Storm in Maputo, Mozambique!
Since i´m living here, for 2 and a half years now, It is common to contemplate the beauty of the many Lightning Bolt Storms in this season.
This time i had the big luck of getting a far storm, without rain or wind (when i say wind i mean it...normally you can not put your head out of the window under penalty of flying away :) ).
I hope you enjoy a small sample of a true spectacle of nature!
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.
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
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!
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.
495th FS F-35A beating up the gloomy Welsh LFS recently! 🇺🇸
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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.....
Getting close up to a backlit baby spinach leaf, one of many leafy greens nutrition experts say we should eat in generous quantities, but often don't. The network of visible veins look almost like a lightning bolt.
Storm season has definitely started in Brisbane, and there was a nice display of lightning this evening. Here is the best of what I captured from my front deck. For this image I combined two different exposures
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A large storm passed over with very heavy rain and wind making it impossible to shoot outside, managed some strikes through the window
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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.