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.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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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!)
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7031 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Neat pix AND a great reference source! Love...Jill
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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.
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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".
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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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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