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Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

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Amazing ohotos everyone! I have a recent shot to add to the thread. This was taken after a 3 hour wait for the perfect shot, on the 28'th of September 2010 from the Coffs Harbour Jetty. I've got heaps of other shots on my deviantart in my sig :)

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I love shots of CG's leaping from the side of a storm. Great photo!
 
Not sure if I would call this my best to date, but it certainly ranks as one of the best for 2011, a year to which I haven't had many chances to shoot lightning. I'd also add this to my sunset gallery..

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i shot this one about 3 weeks ago right out my front step. it was a pretty high based, low precip storm, that spit out some impressive lightning. there weren't a lot of strikes, but those that came out were sharp and followed by an immediate deafening boom of thunder. i didn't feel safe, that's for sure!! i of course missed a couple of other great ones, but was glad i caught this one

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One of My Best Lightning Photos

This is one of my best lightning photos for this year, shot during our drought breaking storm on 9/18/2011. It looks overhead and South and is photographed in Richardson TX, a suburb of Dallas.
 

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Haven't always had the best luck with lightning. Finally happened to be shooting in the right direction time and location to capture this, a full wide 14mm frame on my D700:
Near Parkes, NSW Australia on the 29/11/2011
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Wow, so many great photos, great thread. As for me, I love shooting lightning also, but compared to some of these photos, I don't know.... Still over the past few years I have managed a couple decent ones, this one however has always been my favorite. This photo was taken during a tornadic storm early one morning. The warning was issued for a tornado about 30 or so miles to my southwest, but instead of chasing after it, the lighting was awesome, so decided to shoot lightning instead ( I still felt that was the best decision as I'm don't think there ever was a tornado from this particular storm). The lightning struck about 1/2 mile away. What I also love about this photo is how it the lightning lit up the tops of the corn.

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Kansas Lightning Show - 8/18/2011

Love all the composites and renderings in this thread - I could spend hours browsing these! These are my favorite shots from a chase last June. We followed two non-tornadic supercells across Kansas until darkness fell, and then found a nice field to watch the lightning show. None of them are composites though - what you see is what happened in that 1/1000th of a second!

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Snagged these the other night. Finally getting this lightning thing down....
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Caught this shot last summer in northeast Ohio:

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Captured by iPod camera. It's a bit of a cheat - actually a frame from a video I took; the iPod's still camera feature has lousy resolution but it is capable of taking 1080 HD video (don't ask me to explain how that's possible). I happened to be visiting a friend when I looked out and saw this storm approaching from the west close to sunset, with lots of lightning. I hit record and took about ten or fifteen minutes of video; got a few strikes but that by far was the prettiest.
 
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