Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[John Hudson]

Definitely one of my favorites, and in September, too.

 

[James Wilson]

This is unedited ... if someone worked on it it may look better. ;-)

 

[Paul Stofer]

 

[Maggie Kahman]

Wow! Awesome lightning captures everyone! Hmm... this one was hard for me. I think this is my personal favorite of all. This was an incredibly lucky lightning capture. First off, the oil rig is active, so I had to have enough lightning to illuminate the scene, but it had to strike as soon as the rig reached its max height. This was a 13.5sec exposure at f/11 ISO: 400. I would say this is 95% luck and 5% skill. I call this shot Energy. This was taken in Iowa Park , TX.

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

 

[TaddParris]

 

[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.