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Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jeremy Jones
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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!
 
For me it was in 2006 in France under the largest MCC of the decade : Fivefold close lightnning (july 4, 2006)

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

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

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

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Near Davis, OK. May 30th 2013

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Near Davis, OK. May 30th 2013
 
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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:
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May 31 in central Oklahoma:
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