High Voltage Megawatt Gallery

Scott - Lightning & high voltage power lines!! It's a beautiful thing 8). I go after that sometimes too. I got escorted by security once trying to pull a shot like that. Did you hear the cracking & popping? A power line was really firing up for me one night in Sublette, KS. Green wintergreen Lifesaver sparks :shock:

Greg - that BLUE is incredible. Just after sunset I sometimes see the sky make that color and during Monsoon it's a photo op to be sure. I was on a storm in Cave Creek, AZ once and the sky made this electric purple I have never seen anywhere else...print, TV, neon tube, nothing matched it. Sometimes the sky does that. It is astonishing and a lucky moment when you get that on film. Nice work!
 
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Scott - Lightning & high voltage power lines!! It's a beautiful thing 8). I go after that sometimes too. I got escorted by security once trying to pull a shot like that. Did you hear the cracking & popping? A power line was really firing up for me one night in Sublette, KS. Green wintergreen Lifesaver sparks :shock:
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This was shot a few years ago just off a rural highway in open farmland. I definitely heard the cracking and popping travelling down the lines as lightning would flash close by; it's a very eerie, disquieting sound, yet quite cool. A nearly mile long stretch of these high-voltage transmission towers was downed just a couple miles from that location by an intense tornado on 10 May 2003.

Scott
 
Thanks to all of you for sharing such photos of stunning magnificance; I could feel my spirit soar as I viewed them.
These are examples as to why I consider an interception of ANY spectacular storm as a successful intercept.
Any why I personally do not use the word "junk" to define storms that are non-rotating.
 
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That's the nicest way to describe looking at lightning! I think people have been fascinated with lightning since humans invented storm gods.

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These are examples as to why I consider an interception of ANY spectacular storm as a successful intercept.
Any why I personally do not use the word \"junk\" to define storms that are non-rotating.
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I totally agree. For myself, tornadoes are icing, unless I'm out there specifically to chase tornadoes. The only major ingredient I require in the perfect storm is separation of charge 8)

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A few favorites from the past 12 years:

First chase, Washington PA - July 1993
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Return stroke 'ribbons', Dunbar WV - June 1994
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CGs at 500 and 230 feet, Pittsburgh PA - June 24, 1995
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Strike to tree and house at 1500 feet, Charleston WV - May 1998
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WV State Capitol, Charleston - July 24, 1999
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Tower strikes, Oklahoma City - May 29, 2001
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American Flag, Milton WV - September 18, 2002
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New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville WV - July 19, 2003
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Favorite videos:

Anvil crawlers, Teays Valley WV - July 15, 2003
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Anvil crawler/CG fireworks, Norfolk NE - May 21, 2004
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Supercell CG barrage, Bristow OK - May 23, 2004
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Supercell CG barrage, Belle Plaine to Mulvane KS - June 12, 2004
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Close-up tower strike, St. Albans WV - April 22, 2005
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CG barrage with tornado, Mulvane KS - June 12, 2004
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Repeated tower strikes, Raleigh NC - April 10, 2004
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Originally posted by Dan Robinson
CGs at 500 and 230 feet, Pittsburgh PA - June 24, 1995<img src=\"http://wvlightning.com/asp/thumbnails/pa-72495a.jpg\" width=120 height=92 border=0>
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This is the shot that gives me chills every time I look at it. I remember my reaction when I saw it the first time :shock: What I like about it so much is that the lightning is so close yet so clear. I always get excited when I get a close/clear one where I can really see what's going on. That is incredibly awesome (if I'm not mistaken you shot it from indoors? That's a good thing :o )

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Strike to tree and house at 1500 feet, Charleston WV - May 1998
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This is simply spectacular!!

Thanks Dan for adding your awesome lightning rocking CGs!!!
 
Sometimes colors can only happen in nature. That blue is awesome. I'm trying to think of a where else that color can be found...all I can think of is the gem Tanzanite. But that's a product of nature too. Getting lightning in a blue background like that just makes a photograph. Blues are always my favorite. In fact, when I go to art shows, I find that alot of people are drawn to blue. I don't know why that is. I even know a photographer that specializes in blue. Nice job!

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This is my first daylight lightning from this year:

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It was really dark while the storm was approaching so I had chance to use time of exposure around 0.5s and got some luck I guess :D

Do any of you taking pics during day, too? There is a problem because you have aperture value over f/20 to get longer times of course, I used f/36 for this image. So actually its immposible to get whole lightning, you get just the main strike. It helps to have a polarizer, too.

Regards,
Marko
 
I now have to add some of the best shots I've ever taken thanks due to my Digital Canon A85! They look terrific! I nabbed these on May 18, 2005 in Southeastern Kansas!!!


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Hi Everyone,

I love lightning! The photos on this thread are awesome! I started out chasing storms in order to photograph lightning and it was only after a few years that I progressed to storm structure as well. We don't get many tornados down here in Australia so lightning and structure are the go for me. I would also like to to say that one thing i've noticed about our storms is that the weaker dryer storms often produce the best lightning. This photo is a classic example of this. It was a weak afternoon storm with not much rain and as a result I was able to get the sunset exposed which resulted in the awesome colours.

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This sunset is as it was and unaltered.

Regards Jeff.
 
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