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Images or an RAF F-35b Lightning (ZM157) as it finish's its short display at the RAF Fairford Airshow (RIAT) 2022
A spectacular lightning heat the sea off the coast of Kavala a city in the northern part of Greece. Clouds are cover the blue moon in the sky
This is a "re-do" of this artwork - flic.kr/p/JtnRZr. A flickr friend wrote me pointing out that my original image did not fit the scene. Of course he was right so I tried here to create a more congruent scene.
The car is a 1964 Porsche 356SC Coupe. The picture of the Porsche was taken at the Milwaukee Concours (now no longer around).
Hope you'all (and my friendy critic) like this version better............or, at least, as well.
XR713 is the last complete and uncut Lightning F.3 airframe. She was 111 Squadron's mascot airframe and gate guard for many years at RAF Leuchars.
The Lightning Preservation Group raised funds to purchase and transport her, still uncut, from Leuchars to their base at Bruntingthorpe.
Photographed at night outside the QRA hangar.
Canon 600D
Canon EF-S18-135mm Lens
F/8.0, 35mm, ISO 200, 5 second exposure
I had originally not anticipated shooting lightning, because locally it is often so ephemeral. But while at the marina, it contiinued. So I quickly tried to think of where I could get an angle at which the lightning would reflect off the bay, and headed to the Morro Bay Natural History Museum. I took some long exposures to hopefully catch a flash of lightning and, while I expected the lightning reflections, the effects in the clouds were more than I expected. Photoshop helped with the noise. Morro Bay, CA
As I add this to a "most interesting" group, I add this note:
This photo has been at the top of my "interesting" list since it made the flickr Explore page and I have gotten responses from around the world. I assume the allure is the combination of lightning (with its attendant energy/electricity), landscape and reflection in a relatively uncluttered composition--at least that's what it is for me.
A strong thunderstorm over Story, Wyoming (north central part of the state) had continuous lightning for nearly an hour. Taking 5 second exposures with my GoPro, I was able to stack the best 19 frames for this shot. Most lightning was in-cloud or I would have had more images.
* This is my 7,000th upload on Flickr in 13 years!
This remarkable lightning was taken 30 May 2020 about 20 minutes after sunset from about 14 miles away. It moves from right to left, never reaching the ground.
My calculations indicate that this lightning was about 4 miles across.
Taken with Nikon d3500, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4, iso 400.
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My best shot of a storm with 80+ lightning strikes per minute! After this shot I had to stop because the wind got too strong and shook my camera around way too much to get another stable shot.
In late July of 2016 we were treated to some insanely beautiful and powerful lightning displays in the midwest. By all accounts I probably should be dead from having been this close!
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.
A trio of lightning-striped GP38s sit in the Finger Lakes Railway's Geneva yard. The paint scheme is a tribute to the New York Central heritage of much of FGLK's track, and despite the fact that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Pennsy guy, it does look sharp.
Last night was a pretty cool lightning storm and I was lucky to have the Sheriton's 5th floor window for both a great vantage point and a dry place to shoot!
Though, really it would have been better to not shoot through a window, my polarizer did a pretty good job of cleaning up my frame, and I shot at 2.8 to avoid any dust or smudges.
This is actually two lightning shots and a third shot of the boat passing under the lift bridge blended together.
I've been blending images lately, many people do it for star trails, blurrier clouds, or here, in lightning bolts. I think it is a great way to essentially shoot bulb without having to actually bulb, but at the same time, I feel like I'm cheating. Maybe I'll stop, maybe I wont, I'm torn. Maybe I'll only use it sometimes. Anyway, I feel like without a disclaimer saying that I've blended more than one exposure, I would definitely be cheating.
Thunderstorm over Herford
Always wanted to do some Lightning shots. Today we had 'luck' with the weather, so I was able to get some!
Using my Nikon d3500, I took the 3rd consecutive 100 images of this lightning storm (~25x8s used) to see if I could develop the best stacking from the best lightning discharges. The final image turned out so-so. As conditions darkened after sunset, light scattered onto clouds by lightning becomes very problematic. There are techniques to improve on this stacking but it requires considerable post-processing to achieve.
Note limited cloud to ground strikes. Two sets of crawlers at top left criss-crossed each other within 3 minutes.
Storm was 14 to 25 miles distant.
Probably the most impressive nature phenomenon is the lightning. And it is always great fun to try to capture some of them. When you look at the screen of your camera you start to realize how gigantic they are.
No selective colour for this shot ie the grey bridge is solely due to the crazy rainfall at the time!
Using a Miops trigger for the first time for lightning shots was interesting... 85% sensitivity picked up a lot of shot but almost all the bolts were hidden in clouds. Only 5 shots with visible strikes over a couple of hours. A number of storm cells came in with strong winds giving nearly horizontal torrential rain, I discovered that my hiking pants were not waterproof and my boot started filling up with water even with a big umbrella.