Lightning looking east from the southern Yorke Pensinsula

Fabulous Image Craig.
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Fabulous Image Craig.
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Thanks (at last ) to both of you for the comments!

Very impressive capture.

Thanks for the comment TheGratefulDad!

Also, thanks for adding Gum Tree Kaleidoscope to your favourites!

brilliant photo….. i can only dream of such things!

Wow Craig! This photo is absolutely beautiful,

Best capture of a storm I have seen in a long time

Excellent Craig,
The higher ISO has attributed to the grain though. I always shoot lightning on ISO-100.
No grain in up to 5 minute exposures.

Holy crap! Thats way too cool for words! Is that altered or natural?

Thanks GrifGrif…

It is absolutely natural… It was taken on the evening of 2 March 2007 at 10:55 pm.

As I stated in the accompanying comments, I took aver 130 shots with the camera set on a tripod… The storm was spectacular and unfortunately it is a bit of pot luck and persistance that yields a shot like this when the camera is limited to an 8 second exposure. I just stood there and took shot after shot and then checked them out afterwards… all in all, I was out there for a little over an hour and only ended up with a few “bubbleworthy” shots and this I think was the best.

Thanks again for your comment and to everyone else who has done the same.

Regards,

Craig

Thanks for your comment Michael Bermingham.

I absolutely understand the graininess, but I only have a midrange camera and with an 8 second maximum exposure. Therefore I need to compromise somewhere and I did this by going to 800 ASA. One of these days, I will (hopefully) have sufficient spare dollars to by a good digital SLR with all the nice bells and whistles!!!

Thanks again, Craig

That is absolutely fantastic.

That’s a tremendous capture, Craig! Hope it’s hanging on your wall :)

amazing shot!

Wow stunning shot, well done

This is by far one of the best I’ve ever seen Craig!!!

awesome lightning capture

Good one Craig, inspired me to check out future lightning events.

Thank you for sharing the details on the shoot. Excellent work. Did you use a remote?

I like this a lot !!! Well done.

I certainly do wish you well on your bubble sales. It took 1.5 paychecks to get it but I did before I moved to the Grand Canyon. I’m still rather new and find myself a bit intimidated by the great ones here however it’s a great ‘think tank’. Keep shooting. Nancy

Hi everyone… here is an example of this in a frame… hope you like it!

Awsome capture Craig, simply stunning. The stars are an added bonus to this.

Browsing your work Craig. This is my very favourite. I’ve always wanted to catch lightning. My camera’s not good enough (little Sony digital), so I’ll just admire your beautiful work. Thanks for sharing it.

I love the menacing approach. One of my writing pieces describes an event just like this.

Persistence pays off! Well captured..

Wow Craig, This is amazing and thank you for telling how you did it. Now I will be waiting for a storm to come…lol

Amazing brilliant capture

Fabulous capture, Craig! Love the light under the clouds, and the lightning!

amazing picture

Brilliant capture,great lightning and clouds

I love weather shots, this great!

Amazing that you can see the stars above the clouds!! Very nice indeed!!!

wow fantastic

Hi Craig
Nice shot!!!
katsu

Nice work, good to see in the SA challenge.

I loooooove it, great capture of an awesome sight.