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Crawler Lightning Over Central Texas, April 26, 2023.
Anvil crawler lightning, sometimes called spider lightning, is created when leaders propagate through horizontally-extensive charge regions in mature thunderstorms, usually the stratiform regions of mesoscale convective systems.
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Last night we had some lightning storms come through our area. I was not prepared as much as I wish I was as we were busy running around getting things done. I came home and when I jumped out of the shower I was amazed at the amount of lightning we were having. i wish this was a little sharper of an image.
The sky looks really dark over that way, may be a chance for some lightning pictures!!! So off we go in the Prius, we is myself and camera gear. Drive up a hill in Fort Huachuca AZ and set up the camera. OK Standing out in the open with the tripod, no one around for miles except this wet microburst barreling down on me.
It is a peaceful uneasy feeling.........
I found this lightning bug on our box elder shrub. I captured several images of it and as I was about to end my photo session, he opened his wings to fly away. This is the last shot of my encounter with this interesting little creature!
A lightning storm and some rain south-southwest of Kitt Peak puts on a good show with the Steward Observatory 90 inch telescope in the foreground. Viewed from the base of the 4-Meter Mayall telescope.
As night fell the storm moved toward the city and I was able to capture this bolt right over downtown!
Tonight we drove out to get ice cream and saw a huge thunderhead starting to form. When we left, the lightning was starting put on an amazing show. We don't get lightning like this where I live, so I was having the time of my life watching it come to life. We decided to go to a local hospital parking garage to get a better view of the cloud. I kept clicking away hoping that I would capture a few lightning bolts. This was the best of the bunch. What a great way to end the day.
i went a little crazy with the contrast in the clouds, but i liked it so much i made a print. i also hope you like it as well.
Stacking lightning frames is challenging because every discharge has great dynamic range and can interfere with other bolt positions. It is rare not to have to apply dodging or burning via masking.
This image combined 38 separate frames without the need for any post processing other than lightening the stack in LightRoom. Sometimes, nature cooperates.
This storm had mostly in-cloud lightning. These were the best 4 frames with cloud to ground lightning.
The moment of a lightning strike on a building 50m from me. Scared me half to death, hence no chance of a sharp image.
Lightning and fireflies
Light up the night just outside the town of Bonito MS during our night clicks. Some centas, ... thousands of fireflies, dance to the rhythm of aleatory flashes of the coming storm. Witness and be able to register this moment was one of my greatest gifts !!!!!
Raios e vagalumes
Iluminam a noite nos arredores da cidade de Bonito MS, durante nossos clicks noturnos. Algumas centas, milhares ... de vagalumes, dançam ao ritmo aleatório dos relâmpejos da tempestade que se aproxima. Presenciar e poder registrar este momento foi um dos meus maiores presentes !!!!!
I have a question for any experts out there. Anyone with knowledge of lightning and atmospherics, and also anyone with working knowledge of camera sensors.
I took these two shots yesterday, more in hope than anything, Being lucky enough to have the Sony RX10 that shoots at 24 frames per second, I pointed at the sky across the street and held the shutter for a second. I got lucky and managed these two shots. Not very exciting looking, being daylight lightning shots, but I am intrigued by the difference in the two shots. They are consecutive frames 1/24th of a second apart. Bolt 1 shows up the brightest, and actually shows the lightning in its ground to air phase and the bolt is only half completed. Lightning bolt 2 shows the completed bolt all the way to the cloud, but is fading in brightness. The bolt itself was very close with barely a second elapsing between flash and the window rattling thunderclap!
My puzzle is the first shot that shows a purple halo around the upward end of the lightning, and a corresponding colour shift across the image in the sky below the top of the lightning.
I'd love to know is this just an issue with the sensor and its response to a sudden intense flash, or is it atmospheric?
My guess is the sensor, but I'd love to hear other opinions or experiences.
These two shots are both cropped heavily from the left half of the wide angle image, hence the slight distortion in the vertical lines of the house.
Lightning lights up falling hail with a rainbow at sunset, taken south of the town of Superior, Nebraska.
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May 28, 2022
Mission, South Dakota
An incredible, close range lightning storm that wreaked havoc over the small town of Mission. Lightning was so close I just set my camera outside and hopped back in the car to capture these strikes.
Just a little bit of sunlight left. The lightning strikes continued well into the night.
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Aripeka, Florida
Woke up at 3 am because of the storm and thought I could give it a try. Could not use my wide angle to get the shot as I was too far from the sea. So I missed a lot of lightnings here and there, and could only capture one after several tries.
While shooting time lapse with the D750, I was lucky to catch a lightning strike on this scene. I also had the infrared camera set up with a lightning trigger and got this shot. I love that little tree so I thought it was worth posting two images of the scene.
Oklahoma Panhandle. May 21, 2017
In May, 2017 I went storm chasing in Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley, which stretches from Texas through to Nebraska, is the area of the U.S. which gets the most severe weather, and the most tornadoes, every spring. Over 8 days, I chased storms through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. What an incredible adventure it was!
I tried my hand at time lapse on this trip. If you'd like to see the time lapse film I made, it's on YouTube in 4K and on Flickr, too.
If you'd like see more images I took while storm chasing, take a look at my Storm Chasing album.
A storm front moved rapidly over Brisbane and after dinner, we went up to Mt Cootha to watch it pass over the bay. Not as jaw-droppingly stunning as last time I did this (see flic.kr/p/2iwuhoo ) but still a good way to spend an hour or so, chatting to the other photographers doing much the same thing. 7 December 2020.
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First lightning storm of the year viewed from Jersey City, NJ of the New York City (NYC) skyline. This one surprised me since it was fairly close and ended up over exposed but i like the effect.
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An extreme lightning storm crosses a dirt road and farmland on the high plains of Nebraska, USA.
2 images taken back to back, hand blended.
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