Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Mike Z]

Not as flashy as most of the other pics in this thread, but it has a certain appeal to it.

 

[Mark Jordan]

This is my only lightning shot thus far. I hope to get out after dark some this year and get some good stuff.

 

[JamesCaruso]

This is my only lightning shot thus far. I hope to get out after dark some this year and get some good stuff.

Never mind the lightning, that is some awesome structure there, would love to see how that entire updraft looked!

 

[Mark Jordan]

Never mind the lightning, that is some awesome structure there, would love to see how that entire updraft looked!

As and you shall receive!

This was the storm near Hico/Stephenville Texas 4/26/2015. Still the best structure I've seen, easily.
The rest of my shots are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mjordan_photography/albums/72157652235611665

 

[Saul Trabal]

Video screen grabs of a lighting strike dangerously close to where I was shooting with my camera. Note the lightning dancing along the fence in the bottom frame. Taken in the summer of 2014.

 

[Jay Goldberg]

Incredible photos! These aren’t nearly dramatic but took them flying about FL350 over Texas.

 

[Ethan Schisler]

Collage of a few of my favorite lightning photos during the 2016 season I create a long while back. I need to go back and redo this for lightning shots I've gotten the past few years.

 

[Jay Goldberg]

Fantastic. Can wait to be out chasing one day with my gear. I shoot with a 5D Mark IV which does incredible at night although it’s not dark during lightning

 

[David Amos]

Forgot to use my Rokinon 14mm would have got more in. Oh well, live and learn. Still love it though. Taken in Powhatan VA summer 2018

 

[michael beard]

Shooting a squall line near Rhome, TX last year.

 

[Brad Nelson]

May 16, 2017 near Gotebo, Oklahoma. UNREAL lightning strike that occurred directly in front of our car and right in the middle of my camera frame. Probably will never get a lightning shot even comparable again in my lifetime. I was in the car and had a remote trigger for my camera. Settings were ISO 100, f/22, and 20 second exposure.

 

[Matthew Fischer]

I shot this out my balcony door at my apartment on August 20th 2017. Using my Canon EOS Rebel T3, F/3.5, ISO 100, Exposure was 3.2 seconds and focal length was 18mm. I only toned down the exposure a little on the flash on photoshop to bring out the bolts a little more.

 

[TimMaynard]

Probably the best one I can find in my albums. Shot near Lamesa, TX. Late May 2016.

 

[Steve Miller]

Admin note: Just a reminder to everyone to consider uploading your BEST lightning photos to the media area here on ST as well as this thread. Our media area is great for exposure and images ALWAYS remain the property of their originator.

 

[Mikaela Norris]

Just now got around to looking through a timelapse I did of an over night line of severe storms back in the early morning hours of 18 May. The line eventually produced multiple EF2 and EF3 tornadoes in and around San Angelo, Ballinger, and Abilene, TX. These are the best lightning grabs I was able to get so far