sprite photos on Flickr

Although there was no indication in people.ee.duke.edu/~cummer/cmc/new6 of sprite activity, a extremely active, continuous lightning display was occurring to my north from dusk through 11:30PM when more clouds moved into my area.

I was attempting to capture some pre-peak activity of the Perseids Meteor Shower, when this lightning storm appeared. In nearly two hours, a recorded at least 15 sprite events. These images are the better ones.

Used Nikon d7100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 @ f/2.8 (not f/5.6), iso 1600, and exposure of 10s. Photoshop was used to increase contrast and reduce some noise (grainness).

Sprite (1211) by Javelin Trackdays

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Sprite (1464) by Javelin Trackdays

sprite drink by Kwon Do

Sprite by Shane He

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The happening Poppy Parker

Sprite Photography, credit, spaceweather.com by L Fischer

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Sprites are interesting but difficult to photograph. You might go to youtube to see movies of this phenomenon. This is to aid those brave photographers who want to try to capture these very, very fast discharges significantly above thunderstorms. Good luck. Check me out on this: 100 km = 71 miles...

Sprite (216) by Javelin Trackdays

Sprite (300) by Javelin Trackdays

Sprite (326) by Javelin Trackdays

Sprite (499) by Javelin Trackdays

Dreaming Sprites by Stuart Rankin

Heavily processed (via an on-line dreamscape-like filter) image of Earth at night (specifically, Central America) with the Moon just over the horizon and lots of thunderstorms and lightning, including sprite lightning near the center-right.

Sprite and Vampiress by Henry + Dave