Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Michael Thompson]

While perhaps not my best, they the most recent - from 1am on 28th September, both with 5 mins of home





Full 1500 width images are below - do yourself a favour view the bigger ones !!!

http://ozthunder.com/chase/2012_09_28a.jpg

http://ozthunder.com/chase/2012_09_28b.jpg

 

[D. Vance]

My favorite to date; it struck about 200 yards from me!
This was at night; see how it lit up all the raindrops?
Canon 5D II, 17-40L. Just holding the shutter open with a release cord, exposure time was 9 seconds.


0002 by D. Vance, on Flickr

An extreme crop, showing positive streamers reaching for the bolt/leader:


What we think it hit:

IMG_9988 by D. Vance, on Flickr


Not actually that much damage to the tree, considering the intensity of the bolt!

 

[Stephen Levine]

This lightning bolt is not a time lapse photo. It all took place at once! Shot Christmas morning around 2:15 a.m. in the Murphy, Texas area.

 

[Scott Olson]

South Dakota Supercell!!!

 

[Damien49]

For me it was in 2006 in France under the largest MCC of the decade : Fivefold close lightnning (july 4, 2006)

 

[Jeff Snyder]

I ended up with some pretty decent opportunities last night (3/29/13) with storms northeast of Oklahoma City:

 

[Matt Ashworth]

Not terribly spectacular compared to what I'm seeing here but I thought I'd share my two personal best shots.

http://eon-krate32.deviantart.com/art/Lightning-Bolt-2-164537571
http://eon-krate32.deviantart.com/art/Lightning-Bolt-23-169261339

 

[Jim Parsons]

A couple of my favorites.....

 

[Matt Ashworth]

A couple of my favorites.....

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That second photo...that bolt is INSANE.

 

[Hannah.Taylor]

captured this tonight

 

[FlorianL]

Hi storm chasers,

very nice shots in this thread. I'm a french storm chaser and my bests shots were done the 27 of June 2011 In France :

 

[Dave C]

I've only been at this seriously for a couple seasons now, so these are the only shots I am really happy with.

(from my deck) Near Denver, CO. September 2012

(from my deck) Near Denver, CO. September 2012

Near Davis, OK. May 30th 2013

Near Davis, OK. May 30th 2013

 

[Daniel Rodriguez]

Multiple Bolts by W.O.T. Photography, on Flickr



Swirl Lightning 1 by W.O.T. Photography, on Flickr

 

[Skip Talbot]

Great shots, everyone, keep them coming. I got lucky this season, capturing a couple of daytime bolts while I was time lapsing storm structure.

May 8 in southwest Kansas:

May 31 in central Oklahoma:

 

[Greg Campbell]

Holy crap! That dude can summon purple lightning at will!