I’ve just come in from spending something like three hours outside taking photos of the sky. I’ve taken stabs at photographing lightning before; usually the results are meager. But tonight… wow. Usually an active storm produces a good bolt every fifteen to thirty seconds; I was clocking them at more than one per second for a quarter hour period tonight. I haven’t had a chance to take a close look at the photos yet… need to dump ’em off the card and onto the computer, but from what I saw I should have *hundreds* of really good photos.
UPDATE: I’ve scraped the images off the card and onto the computer. Well over a thousand photos… and *most* of them have lightning. The vast bulk of *those* simply show clouds being lit up internally, and are generally not very good. A fair percentage of the images showing actual lightning bolts are zoomed way out, so as to capture large areas, with resulting itty-bitty bolts. Some of those that were zoomed in were off-center, only catching part of the bolt. And some that were zoomed in and centered were out of focus (Hey… YOU try manually focussing a camera in the dark!)
Still, that left me with a *lot* of pretty good shots, from one to maybe three dozen, depending on your tastes. Here are a few:
And some more after the break:
8 Responses to “Night of a thousand lightning bolts”
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I’d be interested in seeing what you got.
I love the outdoor/weather pictures. But, there’s not much you can say about them.
The weather pictures are quite enjoyable, but not very controversial. Mentioning the Government’s Secret Weather Control Lasers might help get comments.
“HAARP!!!!!!” 😉
I like the weather/landscape shots too, but rarely can find something better to say then “cool”. Keep ’em coming if you want to share!
Very, Very Nice.
Great shots, the clouds really create interesting shapes. A little Photoshop work and you could place an image in the cloud and make the cover of Weekly World News.
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