Strike by drawbridgephoto

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jul 16, 2005

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We've been sitting under a storm all day and there's just no wind pushing it away. Lots of rain, very humid and loads of lighting. So I'm sitting here and wondered if I could capture a shot of lightning. Done it before, but it was luck more than judgement. Out I go with my camera set to rapid shot and I take maybe 200 pictures and miss maybe 5 strikes. I'm about to give up and go back into the cool, when I give it one more go and CRASH, the biggest strike of the evening. And here it is. It was totally dark outside. Everything is lit from this single strike. FujiFilm Finepix S5000 JPEG Format(Sorry Mel, RAW wasn't quick enough ;-) Shutter 1/4sec f/2.8 ISO 200 Thanks for looking

Comments (13)

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watapki66

11:38PM | Sat, 16 July 2005

Wonderful capture, Lighting is so hard to capture, excellent. I think I'm getting the same weather here... in central Indiana.

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Richardphotos

11:40PM | Sat, 16 July 2005

I have never got one yet. mostly afraid to be out in the danger zone. yours is excellent strike and capture. We have had little storms almost each afternoon for a week-N Texas

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Zacko

12:02AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

WOOOW!!! That is sooo cool!!! I tried capturing one myself the other day but i failed miserably, LOL. So this is really impressive to me. And also demonstrated the true power of mother nature. Excellent work!!!! Have a great sunday #:O)

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kimariehere

12:07AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

WOW WHAT A CAPTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ISNT PHOTGRAPHY SO COOL just when you are about to give UP it happens a wonder!! something you didnt expect!! AWESOME !! i bet you were all wahooo!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! V **** ♥ !!! i love the story of how you got it and the shot!!!

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TallPockets

1:03AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

Fantastic shot!!

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wackiej

2:15AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

KUDOS to you! Fantastic capture!

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Lledeline

2:50AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

Impressive shot. Bravo !!

M_Moraitis

7:47AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

LOL, sorry...yea RAW takes a little more time to write to the disk...sorry about that mate. ;) I've always wanted to capture lighting, but never had an ideal spot to which to capture it. We had the same thing up here in the northern part and while I was talking to a friend on the phone the tornado sirens went off...so needless to say, we got the hell out of dodge. ;) It doesn't look like you captured this at night...I love the purple hues it gives off and with the purple flowers in the front. Nice job here Phil...just glad you didn't get electrified. ;)

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jcv2

9:48AM | Sun, 17 July 2005

Wow, hard things to capture but you succeeded eventually and have a wonderful lightning capture! Whew!

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Incarnadine

9:47PM | Sun, 17 July 2005

very nice shot Phil!

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erskogly

7:23PM | Mon, 18 July 2005

Amazing catch! A great view of one of natures impressive discharges. Excellent work!

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Maori

2:25PM | Tue, 13 September 2005

I love this shot and any perspective on Nature itself. Great capture and outstanding timing! Excellent work! We had to wait until some storms to regress so that we could continue with our flight and move on. Kudos my friend!!!

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