Lightning Crashes

Lightning coming down over the suburbs of Canberra as viewed from my balcony. This was a magnificant strike, if only the tree were not in the way :)

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-Kerryn- says:

Cripes! Awesome pic.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Thanks Kerryn, I've had a few practices at getting lightning down, this is the first time I've tried when it hasn't been raining directly on me, so I could get the camera out in the open, if it had been just a little more to the right :))
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

kazzxcore says:

just wow....brilliant!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

**Anna says:

Wow!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Thanks kazz/anna! I wish there was lightning more often to practice some more :)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

bootpainter says:

These are amazing!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Thanks fi, there's supposed to be more storms tonight, I've got the camera ready :)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

emmareeves says:

awesome!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

jasper. says:

really neat bro, the tree is disturbing of course. but it makes it smooth as well - no direct line into the earth, aye.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Yeah, I guess it kinda looks like it's hitting the tree :)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

DZmedia says:

Holy cow!!!!!!!! Thats awesome ...
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

ShawnXian (Busy trying to Heal) says:

Crazy good!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Eric & Cynthia says:

Nature power. Fantastic.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Jinaa.com says:

for how long did you waited to capture this one. how long did you keep the shutter open 15sec or ?? by the way i love the flickering capture
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

This exposure was about 20 seconds. It's really just the luck of the draw, I've been out to try and catch lightning a few times but often the rain around is too heavy to get a clear shot like this.
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

_Jezza_ says:

This is awsome!!!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Xenedis says:

Nice. I must try that one day...
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Dale73 says:

Great capture! Do you have this blown up as a big poster?!!! (Found in the Australian Interestingness group)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Yes, I'd thought of that, but no where to hang pics in my house!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Teon. says:

!!!

Just found this one - I'm lost for words!

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Seen in your Your Faves set. (?)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

geoffconet says:

Very very cool :-)

So the general idea is to just open the shutter for a while during a storm and hopefully there'll be a lightning bolt in frame while it's open?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Yep, that's the idea geoff. It's quite tricky though, often in Canberra the rain in a thunderstorm is so heavy you can't see clearly to the horizon. In this case, the storm skirted the ACT north of the border and I was able to get some great strikes as the sky was clear. I think this night I'd taken 60-70 shots, and got maybe 5 usable ones out of them - thank god for digital cameras :)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

.mark says:

That is one shot which does NOT need more cowbell!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Moo!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

apurdam (Andrew) says:

Congratulations Prescott. You are the winner of the ACT October - 2nd half competition.
Please add it to the October National Comp (Australia) thread.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

apurdam (Andrew) says:

Holy god that's a good photo! And I didn't even give it one of my votes!
:-p
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Gethin Hill says:

wow awesome... nicely captured!!! well done..
one day i'll manage to capture some lightning on camera!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

mandolin davis says:

Whoa! i wish we had lightning storms like that here in hawaii.....!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

onetonshadow says:

that's an incredible shot, i like the tree to be honest, the contrast is cool. you should put some stuff up on www.redbubble.com.au then other people can buy it as big posters
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

~Prescott says:

Thankyou onetonshadow! Will check it out!
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

96dpi says:

Thank you very much for sharing this image with a creative commons license. I just wanted to let you know that I used parts of it in a composing I made yesterday.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

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