Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

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Got these June 26, 2011 near Cortland, NE
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Caught this one just outside my backyard in Windsor, Colorado on August 3rd.

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There are some amazing shots in this thread! Definitely finding some inspiration here. Heres a couple of mine:

Apeture: 22 Shutter: Bulb (46 seconds for this shot) ISO: 640 Focal Length 18MM shot from a tripod on top of my chase mobile in windy conditions

Lightning Landscape by W.O.T. Photography, on Flickr

Apeture: 22 Shutter: Bulb (88 Seconds) ISO: 640 Focal Lenth: 41MM Once again, top of car windy conditions

Lightning Landscape by W.O.T. Photography, on Flickr

Apeture: 18 Shutter Bulb (4 Seconds) ISO 2500 Focal Length 18MM Shot down the street from my house the last time I went chasing

Wall Cloud N Tarrant by W.O.T. Photography, on Flickr

Lessons learned from this outing: I really need a good tripod lol Mine has the camera bag hook but it was so windy that this was making it worse.
 
So many great shots!

Here are my three best. They were taken on August 2 at the same location as Kurt's photos. He and I were positioned just yards apart. Unfortunately, Kurt had to leave after the first line of storms had passed. I stuck around for a second round that swept in around 11:30, and two of the three images here were taken then.

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I finally got the equipment in June to shoot lightning - a Canon EOS 60D and 3 lenses (15-30, 18-135, 75-300) along with sinking almost $600 into tripods for my cameras. I finally figured out how to shoot lightning, and had an opportunity Monday night to do so.

Here is my 2 favorites from the evening. I'm still learning though!

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Simply spectacular Phil!
You should receive some kind of award for that first one.
That is the kind of shot I dream of getting but believe it will never happen.
 
Thanks guys! Yep, that one was definitely a keeper :) I should mention that I lucked out fast with that first one - it was my second time trying shoot some lightning with that building, and I remember it was early in the session that I got that one. The one with the Capitol, though - that one took literally years of waiting and trial and error before finally nailing it.
 
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