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Lightning and Storms

A group for photographic images of lightning and storms.

Featured Work

Destructive Squall Line #2 by Anthony Cornelius

The camera really started to get pushed here, but the ISO performance on the new 5D is awesome… This is the line that produced all the damage in Bogabilla, Goondiwindi and the Gold Coast. Was certainly a long day, sat in the Sun for 6 hours for the cap to finally break from the outflow rush of the storms further west battling flies! (29/12/08)
A Strike Ahead by Anthony Cornelius

Lightning strikes ahead of a thunderstorm.
Wilber Water Tanks 001 by pedroski

Wilber Water Tanks
Ship Wrecked by igotmeacanon

Canon 400D, canon 10-22, 1/6 sec, f22, AV.
Outback Storm by Ern Mainka

Outback storm, Stuart Highway, South Australia. / © Ern Mainka
Gantheaume View by Ben Little

This is a shot taken late in the day… the moon was up!! it looks back over a part of Cable Beach in Broome Western Australia. It is a safe mooring during the cooler months of the year, but during the warmer months it sees a lot of weather. Storms like this one roll in off the desert on a regular basis in the afternoons….. not quite what I wanted, the colours in the cliffs and rocks with the beach and water all looked quite vivid and amazing to see…. still a pretty concise result though. Enjoy… Ben
Demonic by Ben Little

Sister image to “Hell in a Handbasket” both images were from the same storm and are consecutive slides. this image however was that brutal that the exposure time was drastically reduced to 30 sec @ F11. The two main strikes were so close together I didn’t want to risk blowing the image out. Note the difference in the overall colour…... Enjoy, Ben.
Summer Storm by Matt Duncan

Summer Storm Location: Shorncliffe, Queensland, Australia. / Date: December 2008. This work is also available in Black and White. Featured in Lightning and Storms / Featured in Queensland / Featured in Piers and Jetties Photographic details: / Canon EOS 40D / 18mm, 1/50sec, f22, ISO200 / / Click here for other Storm and Lightning images by Matt Duncan / / Copyright Notice / © 2000-2009 Matt Duncan / All rights reserved. /
Supercell Guster Lightning near Lismore by Michael Bath

This was the dying stages of a supercell thunderstorm which had travelled about 150km from south of Grafton to near Lismore, NSW. Giant hail and damaging winds were reported. Quite a nice shelf cloud / guster formed with occasional bursts of spectacular lightning.
Clash of light by ozthunder

Moon, stars, lightning and a street light all compete
The Raging Stillness - Startrails Version by Geoff Coleman - Landscapes

Definitely worth clicking on the photo to see it large. Part of the Raging Stillness series this is a blend of 10 X 30 second exposures taken as part of a series of 110 sequential images during a particularly lovely night storm we had a little while ago. You’re looking at 5minutes of the storm at its height. The lines above the storm are startrails and the reflection in the water is from the full moon (out of shot). / Taken off Bundeena Cliffs, Royal National Park, just south of Sydney Australia. / This is a tiny section from the original photograph – being able to blow up such a small part of the image to A3 is where the 1Ds and the L series Canon lenses come into their own. / Canon 1Ds MkIII – 16-35mm f/2.8 LII USM lens / Tv: 30secs / Av: f/3.2 / ISO: 200 / FL: 27mm Oh wow how cool – Rob Mullner nominated Raging Stillness for the briliant Pay it Forward Group with this comment: “Having tried my darndest to get lightning shots with mixed results and success, I know how hard it is to nail it perfectly…This shot really highlights the awesome power of storms, technically perfect and a difficult element of nature to photograph – so hats off to your Geoff for this and these series of shots, and your work in general….Rob. Thanks heaps Rob. Taken on the same night as these two (just click on the pics): This second pic has a link to an animated time lapse version of the whole storm – 91 photos linked into a sequence so you get to see the whole storm in 23 seconds.
Elemental by Kim Roper

Featured in Extreme Weather Group Featured in CanonDSLR Group Featured in Lightening and Storms Group Featured in Severe Weather Group Taken just after sunset, on March 25th 2009, in Berowra NSW Australia. This storm cell moved from West in the Blue mountains in a Easterly direction, just to the South of me, so I was able to watch it track from the mountains across to Sydney. The lightening was amazing, what would start as a flicker would then continue to branch out across the cloud, not going downwards as usual, it appeared to start at the bottom of the cloud and spread like tentacles across the storm cell. Canon 5D / ISO – 50 / f/5.6 / 8s / 22mm focal length Wikipaedia: / Another terminology used for cloud-cloud or cloud-cloud-ground lightning is “Anvil Crawler”, due to the habit of the charge typically originating from beneath or within the anvil and scrambling through the upper cloud layers of a thunderstorm, normally generating multiple branch strokes which are dramatic to witness. These are usually seen as a thunderstorm passes over the observer or begins to decay. The most vivid crawler behaviour occurs in well developed thunderstorms that feature extensive rear anvil shearing. /

Recent Work

Sunset and Electrical Storm from Somerton Beach by pablosvista2

Taken 19th November 2009, from Adelaide, South Australia, foreshore. / 6 sec exposure, ISO 100, f/22
Lightning over Brighton by pablosvista2

Taken from Marino Conservation Park, on Thurs evening, 19th, November 2009.
Lightning over Hallet Cove by pablosvista2

Taken Thurs evening, around 9.30pm, 19th Nov 2009. / Exposure – 10sec, at ISO 800
Moana Storm by Darryl Leach

Taken at Moana, 19-11-09. Wasnt going to upload these pics. Be interested in peoples thoughts.
Moana Storm by Darryl Leach

Taken at Moana, 19-11-09. Wasnt going to upload these pics. Be interested in peoples thoughts.
Branch by drec

The joys and frustrations of chasing storms. Point camera towards where there’s been a little bit of activity…...Most of the storm had passed and was hanging over the coast and out to sea except for this rather large one that crept up behind me. / Looking across the Southport Broadwater towards Seaworld, Gold Coast. 17/11/09
Reaching Out by Wayne England

Lightning over Henley Beach, Adelaide, SA on 19/11/09 taken from the Henley jetty. It was 43 degrees that day and still seemed to be mid 30’s at about 8.30pm when I took this shot. This was the precursor to the change that moved over Adelaide that night. It was a pretty good thunderstorm – pitty my battery ran out not too long after this! Oh well, I got a few good shots. This is an unprocessed shot taken with Nikon D80, 18-135mm lens, hand held on the jetty rails because I forgot my tripod!
Bolt out of the Blue by Marcus Jones

One of the biggest Lightning Storms to hit the region in quite a few years. My aim one day is for a bolt like this one, but with a better reflection in the water of Mount Gambier’s Blue Lake. Nikon D700 24-70 f2.8 / f 7@ 30mm 20secs /
Extreme Power by robcaddy

This Photograph was taken just after the Forked Lightning Photograph, December 2002. Taken on film, and then scanned into a digital image. Taking this photo is the only time I got scared, as you could feel the electricity in the air. I actually sat in my car after this shot.
Storm,Kootenay Crossing by George Cousins

Kootenay National Park,British Columbia, Canada, is on the “warm” (western)side of the Rocky Mountains, bordered on the east by Banff National Park in Alberta. / In 1922, the Banff-Windermere highway was completed and a 5-mile wide strip of land on each side was designated as the Park. This was the first motor road to cross the Canadian Rockies. It’s very scenic and has everything from mountain ranges,rivers,pristine lakes and valleys and a variety of hot springs. Our trip also included some torrential downpours like this one, with heavy storm clouds overhead and sunshine in the distance. The contrast almost made this a monochrome image without trying! Sept.7, 2009, FujiS100FS camera.
Cooly Flash by NautilusBlue

Taken at Kirra Beach looking back towards Coolangatta
Bright Spark by NautilusBlue

Taken From Kirra Beach looking back towards Coolangatta on Queenland’s Gold Coast /

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About This Group

A group for photographic images of lightning and storms.

Guidelines:

1. I don’t want to limit the amount of images in this group from each individual, so please USE YOUR DISCRETION when placing images here. Only add your very best work. Image submissions are now on a “Moderator approval” Basis. This will ensure a high standard of work. And it will enable me to see multiple postings in one day.

2. Only place images here that are to do with the weather phenomenon known as STORMS. This can include things like- lightning, cloud formation, precipitation and storm damage.

3. Absolutely NO Photoshop composites. The images must be real.
4. Post processing is allowed, but don’t add lightning to a shot that didn’t have any. ( I am pretty good at spotting the real from the fake.)

5. I reserve the right to remove any image that appears fraudulent.

6. Critique is welcome, if asked for.

7. Tutorials are encouraged, I have been asked on many occasions “how do you take lightning shots” So please post the techniques used in your shots so others can learn the secret.

8. Please comment on others work, It makes their day.

9. Have fun chasing those storms. I know I do.

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