Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Brandon Jenkins]

 

[Marko Korosec]

Shot this one on 5/24 evening while driving towards Springfield, MO...

 

[Steven Howell]

My favorite shot is this one....taken off my back porch here in Austin

This is my second favorite, taken in Palo Duro Canyon during a camping trip....

 

[Shane Reichert]

 

[Mike Moore]

That's just sick Shane... awesome shot!

 

[Michael Bath]

Hard to choose an absolute favorite but these two are interesting.

The first was taken in the northwest suburbs of Sydney, Australia many years ago. It was a 30 second exposure, though all the lightning happened at once. 100 ISO film, 50mm lens. Must have been looking straight down the barrel of an anvil crawler - never seen anything like it in the years since.

This next one was taken out the front of my current home in Northeast NSW, Australia during December 2008. It was a fairly featureless high based thunderstorm but one of the most lightning active shows I've seen up close.

Zoom lens was at 28mm, F22, 2 seconds, ISO 200

I've strung together a whole stack of lightning photos into this clip. It includes some video towards the end of several close lightning bolts from the same storm as the photo above.

Watch video >

Michael

 

[Andrew Francis]

Shane that photo is probably the best in here. That is wicked!

 

[Zack Hargrove]

Just got this one a couple weeks ago in Nebraska... maybe my best so far:

Got this one in Colorado a week later:

And one more from Colorado:

 

[Zack Hargrove]

Oooo.... and I just got this one tonight:

 

[NealRasmussen]

I'd have a hard time deciding...

I like this one cause I knew how it was going to turn out. Which is rare.
http://shaggybuffalo.com/wallpaper/20100421_Paducah_TX_1_1280x800_C.png

Take your pick: http://shaggybuffalo.com/pics/sparks/ThumbNails.cgi?page=1

BTW, you folks with digital cameras are cheating. Try it clicking at $1 per frame
of film!

And nice shots, all.

Neal
P.S. Looking for a ride OKC/Norman for state-wide chase of tornados or sparks until about June 4th'ish...

 

[Jeff Snyder]

I don't shoot much lightning, but my favorite two shots are below:

 

[Amanda Farnham]

I captured my first lightning bolt last night during a storm in Chautauqua County, NY. I used my Kodal CD83 camera and got just plain lucky.

 

[Ed Boik]

I had to add a new one. This was the lone storm that offered some lightning in 2010's Arizona monsoon.

 

[Chris Nielsen]

was right up on that hill this is one of maybe 10 in a row in like 2 minutes, this is the best though. it was a freak storm, caught me off guard and then boom cgs everywhere around me. I can still remember how loud the booooooooms sounded. you could see it, hear it, and then feel it, and really almost no delay.

 

[Christopher Jacobs]

I'm still a rookie to lightning photography (and DSLR photography in general), but I caught a pretty nice one while on my late May chase trip. I like to call this one the "wishbone bolt". I shot this on May 22nd, on the perimeter of the Joplin storm as the tornado was on the ground. That storm was really spitting out some lightning. The shot came out a bit blurred, I think from the very high inflow winds I was dealing with at the time.

I'm looking forward to the monsoon, starting up in just another week or two.