Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Dan Ross]

I don't know if this is my best, but it's one of my favorites because I caught it while the sun was still up. No lightning triggers for my camera, just plain old luck! The storm was below severe limits and lightning wasn't even that frequent.

 

[Joey Ketcham]

I don't recall if I posted some of the ones I've taken, but here are a few.

 

[Ethan Schisler]

While not my best, I figured I would share what I got here in Western Illinois yesterday (7/13/16) morning. We haven't had much action since the local tornado event of 6/22/16, so this was nice to see. And they were mostly on rain showers too nonetheless, but quite prolific in producing CGs. They were a decent distance away though, so I had to use a telephoto lens on the first shot (3 image stack over 60 second period). Wish they had been closer, but still made for some nice photography. The second one is just a normal 15 second exposure handheld out my window. I love shooting lightning about as much as I love tornadoes, so this was quite a great night. Nothing like being out on a country road by yourself watching lightning at 2 in the morning LOL.

 

[Scott Kapser]

This is the first year I've really tried to get some lightning shots so it's something I've been trying to improve on as the year has gone by. While chasing the intense tornadic supercell in ND this week I managed to get my first smooth-channel lightning shots which I'm pretty excited about. This storm was carpet bombing the countryside around me with non-stop CG's and I eventually was chickened-out into hiding in my vehicle for the rest of the chase or I could have got more.

 

[Kevin Rimcoski]

 

[Kevin Rimcoski]

Sprites count as lightning, right?

 

[Eric Anderson]

I'm still trying to capture sprites. Until then, these two are my favorites.


Lyons, NE - 2012.


Omaha, NE - 2014

 

[Ryan Toemmes]

Florida Lightning...

From the Lightning Capitol of the World...

State Champions - Title - [emoji945][emoji298]️[emoji298]️[emoji298]️[emoji298]️[emoji945]



September 20, 2016 - Early Morning -

The web claw of the electric skies... [emoji298]️


Sent from my iPhone using Stormtrack mobile...

 

[Paul Hadfield]

August 12, 2016 - Blue Mound, IL


August 27, 2016 - Decatur, IL


October 11, 2016 - Macon County, IL

 

[Greg Campbell]

Sprites count as lightning, right?

Dang right, they do! Good work!

 

[James Wilson]

Lenexa Kansas

 

[Brian Miner]

Waverly Kansas wind farm 2016.

 

[David Moug]

From Manitoba, Canada, August 2016

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

Cropped:


Uncropped:



Another shot from this last year:
(Heavily cropped from wide angle lens)

 

[Isaac Schluesche]

I'd probably say this one is up there, surprise CG barrage from a small pop up storm in the early morning.

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