I didn't have time to snap a shot of the neighbor's galvanized trash can haulin' ass down the street throwing sparks (60MPH gusts) cause it was just flat-out movin' too fast, but these pics of the lightning make up for it.
Posted by Jeff Spradling (Member # 1615) on :
Mike,
Cool...or should I say HOT! Photos
I instantly thought of a van I had to do a few years ago.
This was for an electrician...he had a real lightning fetish...I had to tweak this layout 3 times to satisfy him.
No lettering just lightning.
By the way...have you ever asked many people if they know how to spell lightning...most will leave out the first n...not that I'm a spelloligist.
Jeff Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Intense! (but I wouldn't want to be in tents!)
WOW! great pix! Did you use a digital camera? What brand & spec's? I took some lightning pix with a 35mm SLR last Christmas, but haven't finished the film, since we use digital all the time, so don't know how they came out- it's all a big guess,too.
Thanks for showing them, they're a great resource!
(edited to add the top line-I thought of it too late!)
[ July 26, 2004, 07:54 AM: Message edited by: Ian Stewart-Koster ]
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Neat pix AND a great reference source! Love...Jill
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Thank you for the great shots. The strangest lightning I saw was in Nebraska. The sky looked like something from a sci-fi movie. The lightning never stopped flashing and it all was just going across the sky, nothing coming down to the ground.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Thanks guys!
Ian, these were shot with a Canon Powershot G2 which is a 4 megapixel digital. I had it on a tripod, 15 second shutter and aperature at f/8.0 (as big as this camera goes).
Bill, we had all kinds of cloud to cloud lightning last night but I could never time it just right to catch any of it. There was one strike I really wish I could have caught. The lightning was jumping to another cloud but there was another "branch" with a bunch of "fingers" reaching towards the ground. It never touched the ground though, and the "fingers" had a weird sparkle/twinkle effect - they looked like sparklers someone would wave around on the 4th of July.
Capturing lightning can be kinda tricky. I shot 40 frames last night and of all those shots, these 4 are the only "keepers".
Posted by Brian Antonik (Member # 4440) on :
Great shots mike
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
That last one looks like some kind of lightning creature rising from earth - should be on the cover of a horror book. Neat Pics, I love lightning. My son was actually indirectly hit by lightning as a small boy. Lucky for him he had rubber boots on. He was sitting in a little red wagon that's handle was leaning against a tree, and the lightning hit the tree and went through the wagon. He had mild burns on both legs, but otherwise was unhurt.
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