Lightning! Let's see some!

I'll start off - here's one I got a few nights ago...

... and a couple more from the same night...

Great pic what cruise

Is this on

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This was taken in the bahamas

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Coopp

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Cool was when the pic or did u do that. My favorite is the reflection picture

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Its taken from a video. When we were in rome in june we were standing outside the front of the vatican and there was a massive bolt of orange and purple fork lightning right over the roof of st' peters, wish i caught that on pic, would have been amazing lol.

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Lightning's one of those right-time-right-place kind of things. I live in the U.S. Lightning Capital, but can rarely shoot it around my house as I have no horizon view and would have to go stand in a field with my camera during a lightning storm (not going to happen!). So the only times I've captured lightning were lucky times I was traveling and happened to have my camera when a storm was approaching. Here are a few:

Lightning over Disney's Grand Floridian resort:

The first, and last, time I stood in my backyard to try to photograph lightning - many years ago, and had this bolt strike within 1/4 mile...sending me immediately indoors:

A little daytime lightning arching through the sky over Frontierland and Liberty Square as a big storm approached in Disney World:

Always wanted to...never in the right place at the right time. In SoCal, we only see lightning about every other year and travelling to a thunderstorm isn't on my bucket list! :)

I do enjoy the photos, though!

Dave

Beautiful. I could watch lightning all day long. [emoji5]

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I took this a couple of weeks ago while trying to get shots of the Perseids meteor shower.

I took this a couple of weeks ago while trying to get shots of the Perseids meteor shower.

Wow! That's a Beauty!

Awesome shot, Jenf - better than the perseids if you ask me! Great cloud glow from the inside bolts.

Awesome shot, Jenf - better than the perseids if you ask me! Great cloud glow from the inside bolts.

Thanks! I wish I had centered the action vertically so I got more water in the frame and could have edited out the fish eye effect. This was my first attempt with lightning and only tried it because the Perseids were kind of a bust when we were out there (before the moon set).

Lots of great lightning pictures.

I won't even go near a window when it is lightning outside.