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There was a very brief "storm" that blew through here on Tuesday night and the skies were pretty intense, turning a deep purple and red...
It would have been a killer sunset had I been out and about somewhere scenic enough to shoot it. However, this lightning bolt was shot right outside my driveway. I love when photo opportunities come to me, instead of me going to them! lol ;)
While my husband and I were watching the storm, I fired off a couple of long exposure shots. This was one that I captured. The lightning didn't go through the windmill but it sure appeared that way.
Beaver County Oklahoma USA
What’s up guys? Hope your weekend is going great as well. We just came back from Milwaukee just to see that the weather from last night arrived to Chicago this morning. Seeing some great shots from my friends posts. It was very dramatic to say the least. Really happy we got this views! What do you think?
It has been a very active week weather wise here in Alberta, Canada. Here is a shot of a coking bolt of lightning which jumped from cloud to cloud and then to the ground. What a show.
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart.” - Helen Keller
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Got several awesome single exposure lightning strike photos tonight. Thankful for the quarter inch of rain we got this evening. More thankful that my fire chief got to watch the storm with me when the lightning started instead of answering a page.
Beaver County Oklahoma
A combination of 30 images make up this composite
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As the city began to disappear into the rain, I felt my chances of a strike on the city fading as the rain was moving in fast. Only a few clicks away from packing up, this banger of a bolt suddenly sprang down out of the clouds into the Delaware River, thunder echoing almost immediately across the water.
Another gothic "Dark & Stormy Night"
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Had an opportunity to get some lightning shots last night. I kept hearing the thunder outside my house, but didn't realize until it was almost over that it wasn't raining and I could actually set up in a decent location to catch some bolts.
I almost missed the whole thing, but managed to get this shot, along with a couple of others, before the storm moved totally away. It was quite a show!
BTW...this is a single exposure.
The mammatus clouds were fabulous this July evening as we were coming home from the farm. We pulled over and watched the storm roll by.
Oklahoma
A line of severe thunderstorms passed along the coast of southern California last night (and later spread around the county, including right over my house!). I was teaching a college class through Zoom, but managed to get two decent shots at my 20 minute break (from my patio)! This was early evening and there is some residual sunset color there, and the lightning was somewhat distant. I shot in daylight white balance mode and the images turned out very warm.
Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, California.
Oct. 4, 2021
5/6 green lanterns of earth. Just finished this and couldn't wait to show him. Sorry for the crappy photo quality.
Gonna have a break from lantern customs and work on some other dc characters.
Hint for one of them: I didn't throw away the lightningbolts from the flashcowl I turned into bleezs helmet.
Lightning Storm, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The lightning strikes are in Grand Teton National Park although the photo was taken from the Bridger Teton National Forest.
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These two photos were taken a fraction of a second apart. It seems like the lightning started off as two separate strikes, and then merged - to find a better path between sky and ground, I assume.
The two photos were taken with my iPhone 5 using the app iLightningCam. These ones were taken from indoors on the top floor of my building, with a little tripod set up in a hallway window, so the photos were take through glass (I got crowded out of my unobstructed doorway spot by some rooftop partiers who didn't seem to be worried about getting hit by lightning). I then did some editing on each photo to improve contrast and to try to remove some artifacts from the dirty windows. The fact that one photo is more purple than the other is not something I did - the colors just came out different from one moment to the next, I suppose because of the changing light.
I actually got a couple photos of other strikes from the same storm showing a similar pattern to the first photo - that is, two strikes, one hitting the Sears Tower and one hitting off to the right in about that same spot. I even got another couple pairs of photos close together that show the bolts changing - but none of the others merged together like this.
How big of a fraction of a second apart were the photos, you ask? Well, based on the EXIF data, the photos are only about 5-10ms apart, but each photo has 50ms exposure time, and so its hard to say exactly when the brightest part of the strikes that shows up in the photos was captured. But, we can say they were between 5 milliseconds and 110 milliseconds apart.
The first strike and the storm begins...
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The beginning of the storm that dumped over 6 inches of rain at our house in about 12 hours. To say I ended up soaked out taking photos this night is an understatement.
Oklahoma Panhandle
The year 2000 wasn't a particular good year for thunderstorms in The Netherlands. The month of August saved the year with a few nice situations.
One of them was the night of 13/14 August. Late in the evening I took my bike and my gear and went to a location nearby with good visibility. It was quite a night where the storms continued for hours. When it rained I took shelter in a tunnel under the road, I finally went home at sunrise....
I took many nice photographs that night, but this one was clearly the best. Shot during light rain in easterly direction with f/8 and 100 ISO slide film.
The original slide looks much better than this scan, however....
It's a rare occasion for me to go out in a storm by myself but this May night, it had to be that way. Jon had gotten called out for work so I was left to my own devices. As you can tell, I am not smart enough to not stand in the middle of the highway for long exposure photography. Lucky for me, traffic was pretty much non-existent at this time of night (after midnight).
Lightning photography has been a struggle for me this year.
Highway 64, Beaver County Oklahoma USA
Lightning striking the Sicilian countryside. Re edited this image. Thought the first one didn't look quite right. Thanks for looking.
Isolated thunderstorms over the eastern Carpathian mountains continued till after sunset.
I used a sharp 50mm prime lens to capture the lightning strikes. Because of the large distance to the storms I had to use low f-values to capture the lightning with the forthcoming disadvantage of short exposure times because it was still rather light outside.
Caught this awesome lightning bolt while I was chasing thunderstorms with my girlfriend.
So I finally have my lightning shot, I always wanted to capture one. I tried various methods, from long exposure (example 30 seconds) to shorter (2.5 seconds) consecutive shots. This one came out really well on 2.5 seconds exposure. I set the ISO at 400, although I've seen many photographers shoot them at 200, my shots looked greater at 400.
This was shot behind the Sanctuaire du Cap facing the Fleuve St-Laurent, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.
Thanks to everyone for the EXPLORE !
One of the best lightning displays I’ve ever seen just after sunset on a storm near Briggsdale, CO in June 2020!
Petit addendum noctambule pour fêter les orages qui... ont fait tomber le déluge durant 5min l'après-midi et 15 minutes cette nuit.
Encore raté !
Mais...! Il y a des éclairs !
Alors en voici quelques-uns, par gourmandise !
The clouds look like a hand reaching out and letting loose the lightning. We haven't seen much lightning this spring.
Oklahoma Panhandle
One of the first (and best) lightning photos I've ever taken. Recently had to edit it black and white for a customer. I love the drama the black and white edit gives it. The lights in the left lower corner are the cattle sale barn at the north end of our town. While I didn't get the lights of the whole town, I think this proves just how small we really are.
Oklahoma