Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Melanie Kern-Favilla]

Taken on the evening of the La Grange, WY tornado, June 5, 2009.

 

[Scott Sims]

Wonderful thread idea, and even better pics. Kudos to all who have posted. Here are two of my favorites.

Ooops, couldnt keep pics hosted properly, sorry for the blank post

 

[Rob H]

Just snagged this one yesterday in NE on 6/11/10. We saw it hit the radio tower twice and figured it would hit it again so we stopped to take some pictures. The bolt just off-frame to the left was even more impressive - but you gotta take what you can get, right?

 

[David Schuttler]

This one was so bright it lit up all the specks in the windshield and even the towel on the dash.

 

[Michael Thompson]

Far from my best, but most recent. Some winter storms formed over the ocean - lapse rate main factor. Ocean surface is still near 20C at this time of year, but 500mb were near -20C. Land temperature was 12C with a dry offshore wind.

 

[LPleiss]

Lightning

I took this Last August.

 

[Jason Young]

Well thought I would add a few more ,

West of Sulphur , Ok.

North of Roff , Okla. around 6 in the morning

This pic was a few second's after I took the one above .
Was hoping to get a picture of the tower getting hit , but dam that was close.

 

[Paul Sherman]

Some of My Best Lightning Shots for this year

Paul S

 

[Tony Laubach]

This one is my new favorite right now.. shot this a few weeks ago from Federal Heights in north Denver.

I like it mainly cause I pulled it straight from the camera with absolutely no post-processing.

 

[Charles Kuster]

There are some incredible images in this thread! Here are two of my better pictures:

Taken on 6/12/10 from southeast of Spearman, TX.

Taken on 8/26/09 from just east of Norman, OK.

 

[Ben_Jacobi]

There are no words to describe how cool that picture is. Great shot!

A little late to comment, but thank you Maggie.

 

[Zach Young]

I can't even come close to matching these photos, mostly because I've been chasing with a lousy point-and-shoot all season. Still, managed to get a few bolts by sheer chance!

May 23 2010, North of Goodland, KS: Twice in a row!

June 6 2010, East of Sterling, CO:

 

[Steve Miller TX]

 

[PFranklin]

Lawrence, KS a couple of summers ago

Shot from my driveway. Not technically the best pic, but the bolt certainly caught my attention:

 

[Richard Dickson]

Two of these won ribbons at the Pinal County Fair here in Arizona this year. Looks like I would have had some very serious competition if some of you other folks would have entered. There are some fantastic photos in this thread and I'm glad that people are sharing their love of the hobby.

 

[amytierney]

Here's two of mine from this May. Standing in Fulton, WI looking west.

 

[amytierney]

 

[Dean Gill]

Lake Geneva, Switzerland - July 2009

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

While everyone else was in NE on June 17, 2009 for the Aurora day. Atleast I got something that day. This was just off I-27 near Tulia, TX and is an 8 second exposure.

 

[JeffGonzales]

I got this just the other day 6-17-10 near Keister, MN

 

[Jeremy Jones]

6.23.10

I shot these last night....Best strikes for me all year!

 

[Greg Campbell]

I can't even come close to matching these photos, mostly because I've been chasing with a lousy point-and-shoot all season. Still, managed to get a few bolts by sheer chance!

Don't blame the camera!

With a tripod and long-ish exposure (try aperture priority at F6.7 or so), you can take decent lightning pics.

 

[Zach Young]

Don't blame the camera!

With a tripod and long-ish exposure (try aperture priority at F6.7 or so), you can take decent lightning pics.

I can too blame the camera! I've been shooting with a Nikon Coolpix L16. It is a basic point and shoot, without a lot of bells and whistles. It automatically adjusts the shutter time in low light, but only to a maximum of 1 second. It also attempts to auto-set the f-number. Pretty much just does whatever it wants.

I did set it on a tripod (gorillapod to be exact) recently near St Francis, KS. I still needed to take shots almost constantly to get anything, but a few of them turned out pretty neat.

 

[Zack Hargrove]

Taken last night in Asheville, NC around 10 pm (6/28/2010)

 

[Mark Ellinwood]

My best shot of 2010 (so far):

This was a screen grab from a 30 fps HD camcorder (Canon HG-10) on 6/24 in Northeast MD.