Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Jeremy Gilchrist]

This is my first post on Stormtrack. I chase in North Carolina and here is a lightning shot I captured this year that I would rate among my best so far:

This was in Wendell, NC on 7-20-2010.

 

[J Boulanger]

 

[Marko Korosec]

Took this one early this week above city of Trieste, NE Italy...

 

[Jason Foster]

Not my best ever, but my best Year-to-date:

Kinda sad, I know, but hey...for not being able to travel to Florida (for storm reasons) or the plains this year, I'm happy with it.

 

[Stephen Locke]

I forgot about this one

The Watonga Supercell. One year ago Tuesday.

 

[John Farley]

I posted my all-time favorite here some time ago, but thought I would put up a couple from this season. This one is from Stinnett, TX, June 12:

This one is one of my favorites just because it occurred in such an unusual circumstance - along the leading edge of a snowstorm, west of Santa Fe, NM on March 14:

The lightning was associated with an intense burst of snow and graupel along the leading edge of the storm; eventually it snowed about 7 inches.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I got me a new one the other night. It might be my new favorite as it looks like a fist pounding out the lightning.

The Fist of God. Click it for a bigger view.



I added some more from the other night as well.

 

[Eric Treece]

Couple of my favorites:
Shot this one near Hugo, CO in 2006.

Shot this one a couple weeks ago near Kit Carson, CO

And I have to post one from my job on the ship.....this one was taken in 2006 off of Chicago.

 

[Andrew Stevens]

This was from last night, only one I caught. Only my second real attempt at catching some as well.

Link to blog.

 

[Darren Addy]

Sagittarius, Scorpio, and the Storm

 

[Menno van der Haven]

First I want to give compliments to all the excellent lightning-photograph takers in this topic ! I know a bit of luck is necessary, but if you weren't at the right place on the right time.....
Compared to some lightning-images, my best is only just nice:

It was taken during the aftermath of a stormchase on 16 july 2003 just outside Lelystad, near Lake IJsselmeer in The Netherlands. The film I used was good old Kodachrome-64 slide film.
All the three flashes occured within one second. The shutter was open for 20 seconds, but I put my hand before the lens just after the lightning-discharge, because I didn't want sheet-lightning or other flashes to spoil the photograph.

 

[Joerg Kudella]

I bagged this one on May 14th 2010 near Ozona, TX!

 

[Brandon Sullivan]

September 1st 2010.. Near Great Bend, KS

 

[Eric Tourangeau]

Roxton Falls, Quebec (Canada), August 3, 2007

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

April 4th 2010 at a truck stop off I-74 in LeRoy, IL.

I'm a rule breaker; here's a second one that I couldn't decide between taken July 17th looking east into Indiana.