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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
Natures lightshow. I was over the drink drive limit when this one rocked up, so couldn't really go anywhere......I just stood in my front porch as it flashed all around me.
Lightning captured after a long chase seeing numerous supercells. The lightning creates the shape of a dog's head. Taken near Ogallala, Nebraska.
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between that cloud and another cloud (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning). The charged regions in the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through this discharge referred to as a strike if it hits an object on the ground, and a flash if it occurs within a cloud. Lightning causes light in the form of plasma, and sound in the form of thunder. Lightning may be seen and not heard when it occurs at a distance too great for the sound to carry as far as the light from the strike or flash.
A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft. For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local weather up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away.
Supercells are often put into three classification types: Classic, Low-precipitation (LP), and High-precipitation (HP). LP supercells are usually found in climates that are more arid, such as the high plains of the United States, and HP supercells are most often found in moist climates. Supercells can occur anywhere in the world under the right pre-existing weather conditions, but they are most common in the Great Plains of the United States in an area known as Tornado Alley.
Typically, supercells are found in the warm sector of a low pressure system propagating generally in a north easterly direction in line with the cold front of the low pressure system. Because they can last for hours, they are known as quasi-steady-state storms. Supercells have the capability to deviate from the mean wind. If they track to the right or left of the mean wind (relative to the vertical wind shear), they are said to be "right-movers" or "left-movers," respectively. Supercells can sometimes develop two separate updrafts with opposing rotations, which splits the storm into two supercells: one left-mover and one right-mover.
Supercells can be any size â large or small, low or high topped. They usually produce copious amounts of hail, torrential rainfall, strong winds, and substantial downbursts. Supercells are one of the few types of clouds that typically spawn tornadoes within the mesocyclone, although only 30% or fewer do so.
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door
Lightning crashes, an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now, to the baby down the hall
Oh now feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
This moment she's been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
And puts the glory out to hide, hide
Oh now feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel…
~Live~
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Respect! South East Queensland has had some serious storms during the last week. Over 265,000 strikes were recorded in one night, and the storm left 130,000 homes in Brisbane without power. This impressive formation was captured from nearby hinterlands looking towards the Gold Coast.
This composite uses earlier occurring lightning bolts from this storm: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/28952578812/in/album-7...
I applied minor saturation and darkened the original to create an interesting effect. Rain falling within the lightning channel took on some unusual coloration. All this was further enhanced with sunset colors.
Using a 85mm Nikkor f/1.4 lens with my DX SLR, gave a telephoto equivalent of ~127mm. Detail lightning structure is not normally captured with telephoto lenses and this image may actual capture subtle lightning structure, color, etc that is often missed with wider angle lenses.
In ****EXPLORE**** # 7
Hello dear friends,
We are back from a fantastic holiday in Thailand.
This photo is taken in the evening on the island Koh Samet.
The lightning is above the sea.
XXX San
Did a quick blend of 2 images from storm from last night...First time I have blended lightning so I was pretty happy with result of first try...Blended in StarStax..
This is easy to do. It's just a photo of my hand. The clouds, birds and light rays are Photoshop "brushes". It did take many attempts to get the combination of cloud brushes look good. The lightning was added by using a Photoshop filter. ("Alien Skin Xenofex 2" filter. )
Daylight lightning strikes taken with Nikon P950 (movie mode) and stacked / lightened (6 frames) in Photoshop. Rolling scan created banded artifacts with the brightest bolts (unavoidable).
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Got several lightning storms this week in Campinas. This night was special, the lightning came much before the rain, so I could get the sky relatively clear.
Last time, I closed more on the subject, the hotel Royal Palm Plaza... this time I decide to go wider and get more landscape.
How: Used a polarizer to increase exposure time, since it wasn't completely dark yet. Small aperture, lowest ISO. Took a few hundreds of photos this night.
Processing: Four sucessfull lightning captures blended in Photoshop layers.
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Essa semana em Campinas tivemos muitas tempestades com raios. Essa noite foi especial, os raios vieram bem antes da chuva, então consegi um céu relativamente limpo.
Da última vez, fechei a imagem mais próximo do assunto, o hotel Royal Palm Plaza... dessa vez decidi pegar uma paisagem mais ampla.
Como: Usei um polarizador para aumentar o tempo de exposição, pois não estava completamente escuro ainda. Abertura pequena, ISO baixo. Tirei algumas centenas de fotos essa noite.
Processamento: Quatro capturas de raios com sucesso foram combinadas em layers do Photoshop.
Just before raining started, I could hear thunder and storm outside my window. Luckily I managed to click a few photos of the lightning. It was difficult to click such photos without a tripod, but in the end, all the work was totally worth it.