SLO Lightening Bolts

Direction of Shell Beach

Direction of Pismo Beach

Look at the powerful colors!

Thursday night a bunch of us Bike Happening folks were having a "rolling meeting" around SLO. Lightening was flashing every where that night so we decided to take our bikes to the highest point in downtown and watch the show. I saw more lightening that night then I have seen in my entire life. (Photo by Bo)

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emdot says:

awesome dan!!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

sweetdogk says:

HOLY COW!! This is freaking amazing!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

R.bean says:

mmmMMMMMmmmm! lightening is the one special thing about east coast summers. you can spot a fellow west coaster by the gaping jaw.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

YardSale says:

Total jaw gapper here
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Bobo McCrittersen says:

i like the light that comes down from god's eyeballs.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Heather's Shot says:

THANKS for catching that!! I was in San Simeon and we had similiar show but I definitely didn't have the camera (or patience perhaps) to get any shots like this!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

zephyr1 says:

This is F'ing amazing! I love t-storms
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Esther17 says:

holy freakin' moly!!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

BenODen says:

Jeeeez! How long was this exposure!? That's some of the most astounding lighting I've seen in a picture! This was a film SLR? Way to go BO! Thanks for sharing.

It almost looks like it's HITTING the tree in front of you guys, though the scales are wrong. Still, woweee, you got more lightning right here than Denver got all summer! I didn't think CA got lightning...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

faster panda kill kill says:

gah. just amazing. i love storms.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

faster panda kill kill says:

i just realized i said about the same thing as someone else above. thats me -- breakin new ground.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

brizio85 says:

Impressive shot!
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

vitor_schietti says:

fantastic! do you remember the exposition time?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Ben Zvan says:

Thanks for using Creative Commons. Your image now appears in this article.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

R.bean says:

Glad to see this again.... just found really cool slow mo capture of lightening to share:
gizmodo.com/5034458/slow-motion-lightning-vid eo-is-mindbl...
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

florwood says:

Great picture. The one question is have though, is "Lightning was flashing every where that night so we decided to take our bikes to the highest point in downtown and watch the show." Weren't you worried about becoming human lightning rods?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

YardSale says:

Every where off in the distance. When things got closer, like the lightning in this photo, we all had that funny feeling at the same time that we weren't in the best place to see the show any more.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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