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A sprite over the east coast of Catalonia, Spain. Only a hundred kilometers away, high in the sky, as the stars became visible again about an hour after the storm passed over me. I saw this one also very clearly with my eyes, even with the moon shining under it. I triggered the camera manually upon seeing a horizontal lightning flash propagating fro right to left.
A cluster of sprites appear to the left of the rocks and below Andromeda. No brightness or color were added in processing. Sprites are a form of upper atmospheric lightning (AKA transient luminous events) that occur in the ionosphere above strong electrical storms. Sprites are very faint and in longer exposures do not stand out in contrast to the background light in the sky. Thus, extreme camera settings were used to capture them: ISO 16000, 24mm, f/1.4, 2 seconds.
Grumman Goose N4575C makes a spirited flypast at the 1997 Flying Legends show at Duxford. At the time, it had only recently been delivered to Ireland from the US. As far as I know, it may still be in the British Isles, but has not been reported since early 2024.
Incidentally, Grumman designed the Goose just before WW2 as an executive commuter transport, so in some ways was a forerunner of the Gulfstream series.
Duxford, Cambridgeshire
12th July 1997
Canon EOS100, Kodachrome
19970712 58535 N4575C Duxford clean
I think this is a tiny Sprite damselfly (Nehalennia sp.), but not sure which species exactly. According to my guide there are only two Sprite species around these parts: Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene) and Sphagnum Sprite (Nehalennia gracilis). Anyway, it's definitely tiny! The yellow thingamajig is a Colembolla photobombing the shot. I wish I'd gotten it in focus!
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Godox AD180 flash. Three-frame handheld focus stack.
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The view of the Sydney Opera House just moments after the 2014 New Year Fireworks.
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Several clusters of sprites (left) occurred over thunderstorms that were several hundred miles to my north. This composite is a stack of 4 images, each containing one cluster of sprites. If you look at any bright star, you can see that the interval between occurrences were not uniform.
Inspired by Emmymade, I took her lead and made a Desperation Sprite Pie today. It's cooling now. Can't wait to try it.
Car: Rover CityRover Sprite.
Date of first registration: 6th April 2004.
Registration region: Beverley.
Latest recorded mileage: 22,839 (28th March 2018).
Date taken: 18th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Sprites are one of several transient luminous events (TLEs) that can occur above powerful lightning strikes. They appear in the ionosphere, 30-55 miles above the earth. If you look above the brighter lightning strike on the left side of the image, you will see a cluster of vertical reddish streaks. These were not seen in either the previous photo or the subsequent photo taken in the series of 8 second exposures. Thus, they are clearly both transient and luminous!
- www.kevin-palmer.com - This was my second time ever capturing a red sprite. The storm was about 175 miles away in South Dakota.
Read more on my blog.
If you're just finding me due to a link to this image from elsewhere, I do have a lot of aurora work you may be interested in.
She sat atop a rock quite unwillingly as she was bound here for an eternity. The sea sprite had upset the balance of the ocean and was banned from her family. Unable to find an escape, she waited until high tide came in just far enough so she could feel just a slight amount of what her life had been before.
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A 1964 Austin Healey Sprite Mark II,looking very sharp in the appropriate green.
At the "Battle of Waterloo" British/French vehicle display,
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
I haven't shared any photos of my everyday makeup in a while so...have some Sprite colored eye shadow :D
And sorry for the massive photo upload! Usually I try and limit myself <3
Sprite Lake; Alpine Lakes Wilderness, WA. 1682
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