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When lightning struck our neighbour's house, a beam from their balcony was thrown 40 feet and landed on our doorstep. Other debris littered the driveway, but our Vespa was spared.
The candidates hold up the "lightning round" signs at the City Council Candidates Forum, Ballard High School Auditorium. During the lightning round, the moderator asked one question of all the candidates, and they were to hold up YES, NO, or "waffles" signs.
The forum was sponsored by the Ballard and Queen Anne/Magnolia District Councils of the 36th District Democrats.
Ballard High School, Seattle
October, 2009
Lightning Bolt Pro Junior 09
1ª etapa
Porto, Edifício Transparente
10-11 Abril, 2009
Photo: Lightning Bolt
Over the years I've captured a lot of cool lightning strikes! I don't have super high-end equipment nor am I a professional by any means. But I know enough about video, photography, and light, to capture an occasional good still frame from high-framerate video clips I capture. I have used many iPhones and other smartphones for this. I now have a new mirror-less digital camera (Sony Alpha a6000) but have found that it does very poor at video even compared to the iPhone X. I'll probably stick to using Smartphones for the time being, even if the clips end up noisy and sometimes out of focus. If you have tips for improving my game, that don't involve spending thousands of dollars, feel free to comment!
Zooming in on this picture will show the detail in the lightning. Much better detail than I expected.
Taking pictures of lightning requires patience, patience I don't have... Unlike most of my subjects, I couldn't just waiting for lightning to strike then hit the shutter... By the time the picture would be taken, the lightning would be gone. So basically you really have to anticipate the lightning occurring BEFORE it actually does, but even then that doesn't always produce a picture of lightning...
Of the three pictures I took at this location, all of them got some lightning in the shot, but one was too blurry for posting... so that's a 66% success rate, pretty good for a first-timer, huh?
Lightning Thieves: The newest entry in my ongoing "The Godz" suite.
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Ava found a lightning bug, which she was able to coax onto her hand. They seem to really like Bruce and Bonnie’s yard each summer. (It wasn’t dark enough for them to be lighting up yet on this particular evening.)
Lightning bug lit
Fireflies are familiar, but few realize that these insects are actually beetles, nocturnal members of the family Lampyridae. Most fireflies are winged, which distinguishes them from other luminescent insects of the same family, commonly known as glowworms.
Source: animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/firefly/?rptr...