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Taken May 17th, 2010 from my back porch in Katy, TX (Right outside of Houston). These pictures are my first attempt at shooting lightning. I think they turned out pretty well considering!
Lightning storm over Evanston, IL on 10/2/06
Note, if you will, the thin bolt of lightning extending down into the courtyard of our building.
I can't be positive this isn't some kind of light anomoly, but when I examined it closely it seems to be genuine, and not a reflection of another bolt.
UPDATE: Reading a comment from another user, ecl58, he says there are tiny lightning strands called "streamers" that start from the ground and go up to the sky, connecting with downward-traveling strands called "leaders". If this light in the courtyard is a streamer, then my ears are fortunate it didn't connect with the leader, which could have brought a major lightning strike just feet from where I stood, (shooting through the closed window).
St Albans Cathedral. Is there a lightning conductor flickr group? Not generally conducive (ought that be conductive?) to photography, except perhaps here. There is an internet reference to the firm being at 5 Philpot Lane EC3 in the city of London in 1909, here relating to repairs to St mary in Wanstead , Essex,London E11.
I love the word EXPERTS.
The firm is now based in Witham in Essex, having been founded before 1835 as seen here
Wikipedia page for Lightning Conductors here
Lightning Preservation Group (LPG), RAF, English Electric Lightning F.6, reg XR728/JS, cn 95211.
On show at Bruntingthorpe Proving Grounds during Cold War Jets Show..
The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era, noted for its great speed and unpainted metal exterior finish. It is the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft and was the first aircraft in the world capable of supercruise.
The Lightning was renowned for its capabilities as an interceptor; pilots commonly described it as "being saddled to a skyrocket". Following English Electric's integration into the unified British Aircraft Corporation, the aircraft was marketed as the BAC Lightning.
(Wikipedia)
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Crappy and noisy photo, handheld, from the window of a plane. But it was cool to see the show, it was popping-up all around :)
Huge lightning storm passed over us that night. Was harder to miss the lightning than take a photo of it.
Taken in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Big lightning storm that passed behind our house night of 14 November 2008
All these photos were taken ~8pm
Taken May 17th, 2010 from my back porch in Katy, TX (Right outside of Houston). These pictures are my first attempt at shooting lightning. I think they turned out pretty well considering!
Lightning during a thunderstorm. It's not very sophisticated, but hey, what can I do without highly sophisticated equipment? I can only shoot as much with my bare hands, will try better next time.
There can be few more striking sights than the victims of lightning strikes. This one is actually in fairly advanced decay so is probably swarming with insects helping to speed the process along
View of lightning strike effects from my terraces.
High-speed photography showing different parts of a lightning flash during the discharge process as seen on the Mountain Avala.
Lightning from a storm that passed through Fairborn, OH. This version is post-processed.
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