High Voltage Megawatt Gallery

Susan Strom

Susan Strom

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Confessed lightning fanatic? Think in high voltage, dream in megawatts? This gallery is for you! Post your favorite high intensity lightning shots...cloud-to-ground, cloud-to-air, cloud-to-cloud, intra-cloud...or just plain raw electricity. The only specification is that the photos, color, etc. should be the real deal, not altered in Photoshop (so we can marvel at Nature's glorious lightshow as it really happened.) If you also have extreme lightning behavior on film...please share! Have fun! (PS...there's a thread in ST Discussion Forum about posting pics, if you're not sure how). We luv rock & roll electricity! 8)

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(What are we looking at 8))

Captions for these images (top to bottom)
-CG branching out - hits two hills
-CC...Nature's raw electricity
-A lake reflects a midnight lightshow
-Wild & Free - CGs flank an American flag
-Lightning creeps into a fireworks show
-Desert lightning reaches to a faraway mesa
-Monsoon cloudburst
-A late September staccato CG with Moon
-Crazy curls in Tombstone, Arizona
-A genuine "bolt from the blue"
-Many bolts in the Mazatzal range
-Storm builds over mesas at dusk
 
Beautiful images as always Susan. Over here it has been a very dissapointing few months since Christmas with little opportunity for lightning. In fact none!

With Winter just a few weeks away my only hope is with some offshore cells as cold air passes over the relative warmth of the ocean.

Some of my better shots from late last year

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Very simple I know, but I like the water.

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This small cell was moving at an estimated 40- 50mph. The updraft was literally boiling.

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This cell formed as a cold pool in the middle / upper atmosphere passed offshore. It was a very isolated storm. Is it a rare example of a single cell storm?

The larger photos can be all seen at

http://ozthunder.com/photo/light.htm

Michael
 
teach me.

I've never been able to master lightning shots.

I have to get out the format cameras to do bulb shots and times exposures, but not a clue on the digital stuff.

beautiful pictures btw.
 
Nice shots!! :shock:

I have never taken lightning photographs; I recently bought a Canon EOS 350D camera, which can be used to take that kind of photos, but there is a long way to learn.

I have been using a Nikon CoolPix775 for taking my weather photographs and storm-chases but it has not a Bulb Mode.

I'm sure I could show you some interesting pics about lightning next summer; severe storms season will began very soon in Spain :twisted: :)
 
teach me.

I've never been able to master lightning shots.

I have to get out the format cameras to do bulb shots and times exposures, but not a clue on the digital stuff.

beautiful pictures btw.
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I do straight film. I work with manual cameras, B setting and slow speed film. I have never shot digital. Is it really "there" yet for this type of night work? Perhaps someone can comment.
 
I'm sure I could show you some interesting pics about lightning next summer; severe storms season will began very soon in Spain :twisted: :)
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Please keep the Megawatt gallery in mind 8) I would love to see some shots from Spain!
 
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Only frame was added, but in its true form Grand Rapids MI. July 2001


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SW MI I called it framed August 25, 2003

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Ft. Wane, IN May 6, 2004

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Same location off of I-69

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June 12th, 2004, Aaron Kennedy has the exact same bolt of lightning photographed from a few miles to my north west

I'll Stop here I have tons more on my site, wonderful pictures that everyone else has.
 
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