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Stu Short
EF0
Jock's post above reminded me of this storm (presumably the same one) near Guymon at the beginning of June this year. A beautiful evening with a curiously structured storm.
Stephen Sponsler
Enthusiast
Single shot (not stacked) taken July this year
J Kerste
Enthusiast
Took this in July out by Keota Co, I mainly went out for shots of the milky way and ended up being treated to a 45-60 light show up by Grover and the Pawnee buttes. For those who know the area the Keota water tower is lower right.
Paul Hadfield
EF3
June 22, 2019 - Had a special visitor stay at my work so in advance of an approaching MCS, set a camera up for continuous time lapse. Figured any keepers would at best be predictably like the first. Just before it arrived, anvil bolt arced out and hit to the south with branching going overhead. I was outside when it struck and moments away from gathering my gear ahead of the rain. Could not believe this happened.
(Note: after a few frames of first scene, positioned camera left to hide nuisance light hence the subtle composition difference of second)
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Marc R. O'Leary
EF5
Oh come on! How is anyone supposed to compete with a bolt over the Weinermobile?!
Just end this thread...game over man, game over!
Hannah.Taylor
EF4
Michael Snyder
EF3
Michael Snyder
EF3
Yes, it was kicking out some crazy lightning. A nice treat after dealing with hail smashed windows at the hotel!
David Moug
EF0
From June 2019 near Winnipeg , Canada.
Connor Sipe
Enthusiast
This is probably my favorite, two simultaneous bolts at the Outer Banks, NC, July 2016
Tony Laubach
EF5
I may have candidates for new favorites... took these somewhere between 2-3am Friday morning near Eureka, Kansas on the backside of an MCS that rolled through. My news 14-24mm Nikkor lens had arrived two days earlier and I'd say it paid for itself immediately (not literally, but this was EXACTLY why I wanted the full frame lens). I had just finished shooting 90 minutes worth of lightning at a different location when I caught this tree in a flash on my drive back and had to set up for a shot. I was NOT disappointed. Both these shots were taken on a Nikon D750 at 14mm @ f/7
Beth F.
EF0
I may have candidates for new favorites... took these somewhere between 2-3am Friday morning near Eureka, Kansas on the backside of an MCS that rolled through. My news 14-24mm Nikkor lens had arrived two days earlier and I'd say it paid for itself immediately (not literally, but this was EXACTLY why I wanted the full frame lens). I had just finished shooting 90 minutes worth of lightning at a different location when I caught this tree in a flash on my drive back and had to set up for a shot. I was NOT disappointed. Both these shots were taken on a Nikon D750 at 14mm @ f/7
WOW! Great shots!
Greg McLaughlin
EF5
Here are five of my favorite lightning images taken over the past few years.
The first image is from August 15, 2019 in southeast Kansas. This is a single 8 second exposure from the leading edge of an MCS that formed out of a cluster of tornadic supercells near Alta Vista, KS earlier in the evening. I have about a dozen quality photos from this location of one of the most intense CG lightning barrages I have ever seen.
The second image is from southeast Saskatchewan Canada in July 2017 from a marginally severe storm.
The third image is from Tulsa, OK in August 2018 from a non-severe thunderstorm as it hammered downtown with an intense CG barrage.
The fourth image is from November 30, 2018 near Webbers Falls, OK. This CG burst came out of a tornadic supercell just minutes prior to the formation of a long-track eF2 tornado which hit Cookson and Blackgum, OK
The fifth image is from Coweta, OK in June 2017 of an impressive CG strike along the leading edge of a loosely organized MCS
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EF0
Downtown Wilmington, NC looking north. This did not hit the building. It was actually several miles north. I've actually had a few people say I did this with Photoshop. I have no Photoshop skills.
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James Wilson
EF5
Not my best but this was taken at over 9000 feet in New Mexico so my highest elevation one.
Mike Thornton
EF1
One of my most favorite lightning bolts that I have ever captured was on October 21st, 2017, near the town of Manitou, OK, in Southwestern Oklahoma. No, this is not a composite, but rather two lightning bolts that struck AT THE SAME TIME! You can even see a 3rd stepped leader failing to make it to the ground. Recently I acquired a Canon M50, so I am excited to use that to capture beautiful lightning bolts this year.
Verne Carlson
EF5
One of my favorites from back on July 27, 2006 looking down over Denver, CO
Paul Hadfield
EF3
Caught an upward strike emanating from a not too distant turbine blade back in April 2020. Hoping schedule and opportunity make it possible to spend time in our (C IL) wind farm to witness what goes on as I've noticed higher strike concentration for this area on Radarscope. Assume this is due to height and/or static generation from spinning components?
gdlewen
EF2
When I think of a best picture, I think favorite picture, and I keep coming back to a single set of photographs, of which this is one, and certainly not the best I have ever taken. The difference is context: what we were doing when we took the picture. What it means to the photographer, and if he’s lucky, to the viewer.
North of Tucson, AZ. Looking south from W. Ina Road a couple of miles E of I-10
Pentax K-1000, 50 mm f/2.0 (kit) lens.
Kodacolor II 100 ASA Color Film
Shutter Speed: B-setting, “until the next flash”
Here’s the context. A monsoon thunderstorm was drifting W off the Santa Catalina Mountains. It was a dark site, and quiet, with just an occasional sprinkling of rain and no wind. Some large creosote bushes are visible off to the left of the field of view, and the flash is just at the edge of the heavy rain curtain just visible due to the striation in the luminosity around and near it.
This view is gone forever: buried beneath cluster housing, strip malls, and Pusch Ridge resorts.Last edited:Jeff Wright
EF4
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People fly drones around tornadoes…anyone in Florida put a heavily tented pane over a GoPro near the base of the rockets where Uman and sons fired rockets into thunderstorms?
gdlewen
EF2
I don’t know about the GoPro but they have put high-speed cameras at launch sites. Here’s a paper by Uman and others. What I wouldn’t give for one of those high-speed cameras….
I'm sure most of the members of StormTrack have at least one lightning video that shows one or more stepped leaders, but to see the discharge process at µs resolution is just...wow. This is just one example from a simple search. I know there is a site with more high speed lightning videos that are not hosted by YouTube, but the URL escapes me at the moment.
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.. sorry to hear about that.
