Crazy lightning

[John Olexa]

This is one of the craziest lightning image I have taken for sure!

 

[Jack Corso]

Cool shot of that BOY a talkin I will B posting a similar one like this from a BOY from Colorado in the next few weeks. Where was this nailed???

 

[Susan Strom]

That's sweet!!! I like it.

I'll join in the voltage; let's make Nikola Tesla proud!

 

[John Olexa]

Awesome Susan!! that second one is really wicked!!

 

[Susan Strom]

Thanks! It was taken in Casa Grande, Arizona in the desert.

Yours is wild! Where was it taken?

 

[John Olexa]

Thanks. I got it here my town, LaPlata MD. I was in a soccer field

I didn't know what I had when I first got it. I was using my last roll of Slide film. Had to wait till they came back from the lab. LOL
I have since moved to digital over the winter and have yet to try it with lightning.

 

[Susan Strom]

I didn't know what I had when I first got it. I was using my last roll of Slide film. Had to wait till they came back from the lab. LOL

I totally understand that. Our eyes can't process all the detail in the tiny millisecond that we have available to see the lightning. Surprising details come forward only when we get the pictures back. That's what happened with this one-I only saw a fuzz-ball of light, no idea what it was. But the camera caught much more than I saw originally with my eyes and froze it in time. That is one of the best parts of lightning photography

With your shot, what did you see with your eyes? Anything?

 

[John Olexa]

Oh I know!I only saw something out of the corner of my eye, but sure didn't see all that.

Guess we tend to see the main strike but can't see the branches.

I know cloud to cloud strikes are a lot easier to see. There was a cop talking to me when I got this one and he watched it go right over us, HAHAHAH right after he said... "See ya" and hauled butt

 

[Willie Dines]

First, I gotta say, the pics in this thread are absolutely AWESOME , from both of you , I much aadmit though, I'm beginning to wish that I could move to AZ, and start taking lightning pics, because as much as I enjoy studying tornadoes, I still find myself always that bit more fascinated and intrigued by lightning, probably because lightning is what I got interested in first, before I became interested in tornadoes

I gotta honestly say that Susan's collection of pics, always have me wishing that there was a thunderstorm outside, so that I could grab my Nikon f55 and a few rolls of film and start snapping some pics to see if I can get anything on film , but at the same time, I really appreciate all lightning photography and I enjoy viewing it all very much

Keep up the great work guys, it's a credit to this site to come on here and enjoy such great imagery, thank you very much for posting these

Willie

 

[Susan Strom]

Thanks Willie-I look forward to seeing your pics!

John that's sweet, all spidery-way cool.

 

[Susan Strom]

and they say lightning follows the path of least resistance. (?) LOL

 

[Willie Dines]

Absolutely awesome

Willie

 

[John Olexa]

Thanks Willie. Pretty awesome Avatar you have there!!
Great shot as usual Susan!!!

I'm in the process of trying to buy a house in Snow Camp NC. Not many trees around,or houses, or anything! LOL. But Looks like I'll be able to get good lightning images without leaving the yard!!