High Voltage Megawatt Gallery

[Jeff Brislane]

The really arid landscape in Australia starts about 500km inland in a straight line. Nyngan is on this line and it is the western point where crops are sown. You can see what the country looks like out there here:

http://www.tempestlight.com/reports/2004/041207/

Heres another shot from Penrith in January this year.

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[Jeff Brislane]

These shots were taken from the backdoor of my house! Sometimes you get lucky! The creature in the last photo is in fact a large Bat!

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Jeff.

 

[Melissa Moon]

I don't do many lightning shots cause my camera isn't the best for it (digital..if I don't get it just right, I get noise). Here's a few of my shots:















Not too great in my opinion. I need a better camera for lightning shots and a better forground in the picture, such as an Arizonan mesa or something ;-)

 

[James Langford]

Noise

Hi Melissa,

Those are some great shots! I used to shoot with a pretty noisy digital camera (Sony F707), and I know how the noise can be frustrating. Have you ever tried a noise reduction program like Noise Ninja or Neat Image? I have used both of these extensively, and they do a great job at reducing noise. I believe Neat Image has a free version with reduced functionality. It is more than sufficient for web postings.

Try them out. You won't be dissappointed.

James

 

[Susan Strom]

Jeff - a BAT?! That looks more like a small hawk! That's a heck of a feat to get a bat in your picture, the way they fly. How cool!

Melissa...welcome to Club Voltage

 

[Mike Peregrine]

You guys have a cool club ... all the nice shots in here made me want to get out of bed this morning just before sunrise to catch a squall line coming through:

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Sorry to cross-post from reports, but since this was a storm I just chased today I wasn't sure how to post it ... there's a couple more in the other thread: http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6700

Hopefully we'll get some more opportunity before the year is out -

 

[Susan Strom]

Cool Mike! In the second picture...that's a nice wall cloud too!

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

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Talk about luck! Half a mile away is my estimate. This was approx. 30min to an hour after the tornadoes near Mountain View, Ok on 6/5/04.

Aaron

 

[JR Hehnly]

Aaron, you win!
A few from the last couple of nights:
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[Mike Peregrine]

Ok - these last two posts are OFF THE CHART ... those are some of the coolest lightning shots I can remember seeing ... both of you - unbelievable!

 

[David Bellmore]

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[Susan Strom]

...and Thor's hammer comes down!!!

FANTASTIC WORK YOU GUYS!

Aaron - that is one sweet shot - unbelievable!!!
I would be tempted to take an 8x loupe to the image and scan the ground for weakly luminous upward streamers. Look at how close that lightning is to the ground. You'd think the stepped leader that generated right before that beastie would have a pull on something - blade of grass, anything.

Nice work! But do be careful y'all! They're so gorgeous but we're still dealing with serious megavoltage....

I bet the thunder on that was earth-shaking :shock: !

Aaron - I think you should submit that to Oklahoma Magazine!

 

[Andrew Francis]

Nice shots david, the first one is pretty sweet.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Thought I'd throw another one in from this past Wednesday night ...

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[Joe Zemek]

Aaron... J.R.... wow :shock: Amazing captures (as you don't really shoot lightning, it shoots itself).

Glad you guys are still with us!