Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[rogeressig]

best lightning flash

ok strickly speaking there are thousands of shots in this lightning sequence, so my favorite shot so far is the one at 0:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4qNYm424qY

 

[Andrea Griffa]

April 4th 2010 at a truck stop off I-74 in LeRoy, IL.



I'm a rule breaker; here's a second one that I couldn't decide between taken July 17th looking east into Indiana.

OMG, Andrew, I often read about positive lightnings and the possibility that they could hit many kilometers away, but this is just outstanding!

To me this lightning could have hit the ground at least 5 kilometers away from the cumulonimbus or even more. It's really impressive.

 

[James Wilson]

 

[Bart_Comstock]

This is one of my only and by far best lightning shots that I have ever taken. I took it on a little simple Casio point and shoot and did it purely by luck!

I took the photo on Sept 15th on the Greenwood County, KS supercell that was spitting out an insane amount of CG.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

This is one of my only and by far best lightning shots that I have ever taken. I took it on a little simple Casio point and shoot and did it purely by luck!

I took the photo on Sept 15th on the Greenwood County, KS supercell that was spitting out an insane amount of CG.

Was that at the JCT of 400 and the Fall River Road?

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Was that at the JCT of 400 and the Fall River Road?

Why yes I do believe it was!

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Thought so. I was in the white van. This might be the other part of that shot as a few landed behind me. The vehicle is yours or whoever else was there.



Then I must ask if you got the rain wrapped funnel/tornado just before that which I caught a few miles East?

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Thought so. I was in the white van. This might be the other part of that shot as a few landed behind me. The vehicle is yours or whoever else was there.



Then I must ask if you got the rain wrapped funnel/tornado just before that which I caught a few miles East?

I could see it but the camera I had with me on this day was unable to capture it. I was also not in my Jeep and my chase partner's window tint made it nearly impossible to see out of with the camera I was using.

It is rare for me to shoot still photos. I typically only capture video with my Canon XH-A1s. I do plan on buying a Canon SLR once I can afford one.

I was in the white Suzuki SUV with the decal on the side doors.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I followed one of you pretty much back to Fredonia, I was gonna pass but couldn't quite figure out if that was a cop in front of you or the other person. LOL. I went South of Fredonia where I let it finally run me over. On the way back through it was flooded pretty bad with trees and a pole down over the highway. But yes that lightning was amazing and very close. I have a few on my flickr.

 

[DArmstrong]

Best Lightning Shot of 2010

Spent almost all day waiting atop the Sandia Crest in hopes of seeing a freight train of summer storms push through the Albuquerque area. It was all worth the wait. Here are one of the best of the day. It was so awesome watching the sun setting with lightning striking all around, and the big beautiful yellow sky.

Enjoy and CC are always welcome.
-Don

Awesome Summer Storm Other lightning images are there in the gallery if you wish to explore a little,

 

[Stephen Levine]

Spent almost all day waiting atop the Sandia Crest in hopes of seeing a freight train of summer storms push through the Albuquerque area. It was all worth the wait. Here are one of the best of the day. It was so awesome watching the sun setting with lightning striking all around, and the big beautiful yellow sky.

Enjoy and CC are always welcome.
-Don

Awesome Summer Storm Other lightning images are there in the gallery if you wish to explore a little,

Thank you for linking into your web site.. these are some of the most awesome lightning shots I've seen!

 

[Adam Lucio]

Taken this past July from my bedroom window.

 

[kane_hardie]

Hi everyone there has been some amazing photos in this thread which really made me want to join and thank everyone for sharing them I do some weather photography down here in Australia, these are probably my best 4..

 

[Brett Wicker]

Few of my faves from my collection, Awesome photos in these previous replies too!!!

 

[Laura Duchesne]

Whoops I just noticed in my previous post that my photo seemed to have disappeared! So here is another attempt, this time with two more recent ones added:

May 12, 2009 near Childress, TX

A hand held lightning shot during the Artesia, NM supercell May 17, 2010

A cloud-to-air strike coming out the top of a storm during a starry night Aug. 15, 2010