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Bolt from the Blue: a lightning bolt jumps out of a Cumulonimbus storm cloud.

A great lightning storm passed over the town last night

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.

# A PIECE OF A RECORDED ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE SEQUENCE SHOT IN TEXAS BY MR. TRONA [WITH A HANDHELD CAM], MAY 2016

Managed a few more strikes outside once the rain slowed down a little

A very wispy cloud moving quickly across the sky and over a grain elevator, gives the momentary impression of lightning.

Big thunderstorm last night. Got this image by just holding the shutter open with ISO low.

 

To improve my lightning photography, I ordered a lightning trigger. But it's not coming until later today. There are no new storms in the forecast, and spectacular ones are rare here.

The Olympus camera Live Composite function

 

Single shot. The lightning almost like sun casting its ray onto the sea.

Lightning, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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!

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.

The other day we had a lightning storm over Las Vegas Nevada. My took this image of the storm

Steelwool Lightning Orb - lightpainting in the tunnel.

 

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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.

 

youtu.be/rMVgCuWPzbc

Walking around downtown Denver looking for photo opportunities when a storm rolled over and provided the most amazing light show.

A strong thunderstorm drops lightning bolts over the foothills of the eastern Carpathian mountains, Romania.

Surrealistic scenery with a pasture illuminated by lightbeams from a football-field, clouds by light from nearby greenhouses, car trails and...... lightning !!!

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

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!

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.....

 

Tree lit up with lightning storm at night, Long Reef, Sydney, Australia

Nature´s midnight show in Bielefeld

one of my favorites

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.

Gewitter über Zug

Photographed in Manila, the Philippines

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.....).

thunderstorm in aprile

Texture by tammy ( crazy busy).

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

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.

Amazing complexity of the lightning flash. View of Tucson to the south from the foothills above.

I see that second spelling used all the time... it must be stopped.

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This is my first successful lightning photo. I took it last week from the verandah of the house we were staying at, at Diggers Camp in northern NSW, using a long exposure and hoping for the best! My family were walking on the deck, hence the shake of the lights at Minnie Waters in the distance. We had a few nights like this.

We are off to Darwin tomorrow for Christmas, so am hoping for more lightning photo opportunities!

I may not get a chance to upload anything before Christmas, so if not, Merry Christmas everyone.

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