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Lightning strikes over Johannesburg
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Here's my entry for the second prompt of RebelLUG's Vignweek 2021 contest, with the theme of historical (being defined as roughly 500 AD to 1800). I wanted to try and do something more out of the box than just medieval or pirates, as I figured that those themes would be done a lot here. So, I went with something from early US history, and chose to depict Benjamin Franklin and his famous kite experiment that helped us understand the connection between lightning and electricity. I'm really happy with how this build turned out, I'm very pleased with how the cloud and lightning bolt turned out, especially after my first attempt at the lightning bolt was pretty garbage. I do wish I could've figured out a better way to hide or reduce the trans-clear bricks but unfortunately I needed the support for the cloud and lightning bolt. Anyway, hope y'all like it and check back for more builds soon!
You can see a close up of Franklin here.
I have no idea what to call this photo, but "Holy Mother of God!" seems apt.
Interested in my technique? Here's an article I wrote about it: www.pictureline.com/blog/photographing-lightning-safely/
~ Lava Blast and Electric Lightning Bolt Within a Lava Plume #1 ~
Rare and surreal static electric lightning flashes through a massive column of steam, sulfur dioxide, glass particles, ash, rock and instantly created black sand – all generated from a huge volume of molten lava dumping out of a single lava tube that carried it from magma chambers under the flanks of Mauna Loa’s Kilauea volcano further upslope - here on the Big Island.
I first recorded this electric bolt phenomenon here with this photo
I have been asked if all these lava explosions and lightning flashes are loud. Oddly enough, even when I was nervously close to this event the night I took these photos, there was not a single sound to be heard! – That felt strange to me. In the past, when the lava flowing into the sea was tamer, we could hear the crackling and hissing as molten lava met ocean water… but I was not going to get that close to the exploding lava monster in these photos!
Digital downloads and prints of this lava shot and many others can also be found here
Thanks for you visits and comments~~~
© Ray Skwire
What a surprise show tonight!
I got lucky traveling through Vincentown at a spot I've shot from before with good luck and I got to watch as this line of storms that had been kind of parked west of the city finally started to move out as the sun went down. There was so much lightning in this line, it was like a disco. First, C2C was only visible by the brightness in the sky but as this moved in, it started jumping out of the clouds every second. This thing had structure, presenting both a decent shelf cloud and a well formed wall cloud, and so, so, so much lightning.
As the Lightning heads back out to sea, striking like I want to see it!
A time-lapse of the night shots with slight cropping of straighten the horizon.
Watched the lightning to the south. Just a few sprinkles here from this one. The light show was miles away but was still able to enjoy a little bit of it.
Beaver County Oklahoma
A Chicago & North Western C44-9W awaits assignment in the Union Pacific yard at Provo, Utah on a stormy April 2, 1995 afternoon. No. 8634 was built for the CNW by GE in January 1994. It was renumbered UP 9698 on July 30, 1999. The unit has been stored in Proviso, Illinois since Oct. 6, 2018.
Worth viewing large on white... - view the entire Lightning set
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Another from the lightning series I took, and I got more...
See some other killer strikes in my previous post or just below in the comment section.
More about lightning on this Wikipedia page.
Explore #97 on 2009-08-21
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It was a scorcher today with temperatures in the high 30's - an series of storms swept though late this afternoon giving us a little relief.
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To close for comfort! Thunderstorm with big lightning strikes over Johannesburg last night
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Esta composição é o produto da junção de 3 fotografias no Photoshop. Abri as fotos como camadas, alinhei-as e mesclei-as. Nada mais. Não houve retoques nem nas fotos originais.
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This composition is the product of three photographs junction in Photoshop. Open it as layers, auto-align and merged. Nothing else. There was no retouching neither in the original pictures.
This year has been a poor year for thunderstorms in The Netherlands. However, last Fiday evening I was fortunate to capture this bolt in a nature area called "Bentwoud", some 20 km north of Rotterdam.
I was soaked to the bone and shivery, but who cares.....?
This day spawned a cell that cycled again and again for about 6 hours, from Raton to Wagon Mound. This was the 8pm incarnation that hailed on us a little later...
6D/Rokinon 14mm ISO 100 5 sec
Mercilessly... We often forget that we are all at the mercy of the elements... The power of nature molds the wood and everything on this planet.. I remember having faced a long journey to photograph this tree, when i arrived it was raining and i was desperate, but during the wait there were lightning and i started to photograph ⚡ CHECK www.nicorinaldi.net •(For info, Workshop, Training & more contact me)• Photo take with tripod
A panorama of three individual shots of the thunderstorm, including (OF COURSE) the one where I caught a lightning bolt as well as one where a bird took to the rising wind. See also a crop of just the lightning bolt.
(In Explore 2019-01-28)
The lightning bolt's point of impact on the hillside is clearly visible.
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This was one of the first photos I took when I found a spot to park on the side of the road.. I almost discarded this one because there was a car coming right toward me during the exposure and there was an annoying bright light from the head lights, so instead of throwing away a good lightning bolt capture, I did some cropping, utilizing the car's light as it gave the tractor some back lighting and light flare in the foreground of this image.
Traffic streams downhill on US 287 as a late summer storm passes south of Berthoud, Colorado. View large on black
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..
Electrical storms over Hong Kong at the start of summer are always spectacular. The storms are nearly always accompanied by rainstorm warning signals. The signals are used in Hong Kong to alert the public about the occurrence of heavy rain which is likely to bring about major disruptions such as traffic congestion and floods.
When I got off work on this night the sky was filled with lightning. I had to go home and get my camera and by the time I got down to the riverfront the lightning had all but stopped. I waited patiently snapping one after another. Then.. out of nowhere came one random bolt. It was barely in the frame but I got it. I stayed another 30 minutes or so but nothing else happened. Not sure where this one came from but I'm glad it appeared.
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We were run right over by this fast moving shelf cloud on May 24th, 2018 outside WaKeeney, Kansas on a day where I thought I wouldn't even get to use my camera as storms kept dying out early. I have a few shots of it spitting out CGs that I'll likely post in the near future as well.
More pictures here: www.antonfalco.com/Blogs/MyTop10WeatherPicturesOfTheDecade
This crazy bolt landed not far from us, shot with a wide angle at 28mm, out near Safford, Arizona. The monsoon has begun.
A shot of last nights storm that rolled through the area. Produced some nice bolts of lighting. Most of which I missed but I did get this one. My girlfriend was in the other room getting some lightning shots as well. She caught the same bolt from a different window you can check it out here www.flickr.com/photos/elyssawalter/14251524291/