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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 storm approached over the Pacific towards Acapulco Bay. For the next two hours, we got a spectacular, silent lightning show from our balcony. Strikes every minute or so. It eventually got close enough for thunder, but stayed dry.
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.
Another one from my last stormchase. I caught this one not far from my home town. Nice storm clouds with rain streaks in the evening light and .....
..... a double lightning strike !
The contrast of the lightning bolts with the sky could be better, perhaps next time I will underexpose with an extra 2/3 of a stop.
Shot with an ultra wide angle (15mm) on full frame, so these lightning bolts were rather close, I guess 2 or 3 kilometers from my location.
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
Surrealistic scenery with a pasture illuminated by lightbeams from a football-field, clouds by light from nearby greenhouses, car trails and...... lightning !!!
A large storm passed over with very heavy rain and wind making it impossible to shoot outside, managed some strikes through the window
Active late summer / autumn thunderstorm over the North Sea.
Shot with an old, but still good and sharp 135 mm prime lens (the 50mm and f/1.4 in the discription are not right, the lens is entirely manual and has no electronic connection to the camera body whatsoever.....).
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.
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.....
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
Nocturnal non-tornadic supercell with several multiple lightning strikes. This is a quintuple one. On the far left side, one can observe the rotating wall cloud. A funnel has been observed. No confirmed contact with the ground. Athens, Greece, Oct. 13, 2021.
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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.
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