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This lightning bolt was captured near my home. With the right techniques, it's quite easy to photograph lightning. Click on the prior link for more information.
Never captured lightning before but seen this one in the distance on the way home from a shoot and thought I would have a go. This storm was more than 140klms away from where this image was captured.
Took some of my shells outside in the backyard and utilized some natural light. The lightning whelk is one of my favorite seashells.
Pictures from the storm. Lightning trigger wasn't cutting it so I went old school. Still need to practice.
good lightning shot with my homemade lightningtrigger [8mm] [lightningtrigger]
setting the iso a bit higher to 200 worked
shot from my attic window
English Electric Lightning F.3 XR 713 in the colours of Treble One Squadron gracing the static aircraft park at the 2013 RAF Leuchars airshow.
The long term preservation of this classic 60s Interceptor was secured last year when the Lightning Preservation Group, completed the mammoth task of dismantling and roading 713 to Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire in May 2015, complementing that groups two other taxiable Lightning F.6s XR 728 and XS 904.
There is superb article by Max Waldron in the Feb edition of Flypast magazine detailing the task of moving XR 713 south.
Lightning is an atmospheric electrostatic discharge (spark) accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms.[1] From this discharge of atmospheric electricity, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 220,000 km/h (140,000 mph), and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse silica sand into glass channels known as fulgurites which are normally hollow and can extend some distance into the ground.[2][3] There are some 16 million lightning storms in the world every year.[4] Lightning causes ionisation in the air through which it travels, leading to the formation of nitric oxide and ultimately, nitric acid, of benefit to plant life below.
Lightning can also occur within the ash clouds from volcanic eruptions,[5] or can be caused by violent forest fires which generate sufficient dust to create a static charge.[1][6]
How lightning initially forms is still a matter of debate:[7] Scientists have studied root causes ranging from atmospheric perturbations (wind, humidity, friction, and atmospheric pressure) to the impact of solar wind and accumulation of charged solar particles.[4] Ice inside a cloud is thought to be a key element in lightning development, and may cause a forcible separation of positive and negative charges within the cloud, thus assisting in the formation of lightning.[4]
The irrational fear of lightning (and thunder) is astraphobia. The study or science of lightning is called fulminology, and someone who studies lightning is referred to as a fulminologist.