Darwin Lightning

aweesome shot. i have to learn to do this

Thanks Andrew. This storm was coming straight at me on the jetty. I kept taking more frames in the hope of another beauty while feeling like I was playing ‘russian rulette’ with my luck and safety. The wind and rain finally hit blowing over my tripod while I was packing away the camera. I like the upper cloud structure and lower gust front cloud in this photo.

Oh wow! This is magic on magic, with a dose of magic on the side. So glad you risked life and limb to bring this to us!

that is an amazing shot. Great cloud structure and foreground with a bolt to top it off. Ripper

One of the most awesome and highest quality lightning shots I`ve ever seen… and I`ve seen lots! BB

Wow, thanks Rob, Rhana, Matt and Billyboy.

i never seen beautiful shot like this! this is awesome mate,very good work!i cant wait to include this on my favorites.

Fantastic Ern. Top notch structure and backlighting in the cloud!!

Amazing image

Fantastic capture

brilliant shot

Great shot

Very impressive, well done!

Wow this is stunning, an amazing capture. The risks we take for our art huh!

The reason I got my camera, i hope to be able to do this, your shot is awesome!

The clouds came out very pretty. May I ask what your exposure time was? I tried photographing a storm the other night, but I always managed to open or close the shutter too soon or late.

Rowan. About 30 sec or more at f8. The lens I’m using on that camera has a min aperture of f8, very slow. The upper cloud was illuminated by multiple flashes inside the cloud. I closed the shutter once I got a CG (cloud to ground) flash. Exposure time depends on how far away the lightning is, film speed, and aperture setting.

It might have been less than 30 sec. I took many frames at different durations. Some of the cloud appears frozen as it is illuminated by only a particular flash or flashes, some being weaker, some brighter.

Thank you. I’m sure with practice I’ll get better at it…but it will be a long time coming before I manage one near your quality.

Wow! Thats impressive!!

Spectacular!! I love the illuminated clouds.

Right time and right place.. you rock!!

Wow, impressive, I love the clouds formation filling up there while the lightning comes down.

absolutely beautiful!! well done

Fantastic shot!! Absolutely stunning, I’ve never seen lightening like that before!

Absolutely brilliant this is wonderful

Wow, a stunning shot. Not only did you get the lightening, but I love how the clouds are lit above the lightening. Magical.

Awesome shot!!

absolute beauty nature at its finest :-D

Beautiful!

awesome, such power it portrays.

wow awesome work

gosh, sooo beautiful, perefect shot.

Beautiful shot!

Awesome capture!

Very powerful layer of light and color and power. First class – congrats on being featured!

Outstanding!

Top end storms are the best eh?! I expect a good storm season this year, what do you think?

that cloud formation is stunning

Hi fellow redbubbler. We have just come across this beautiful photo of yours and are writing to let you know that we now have started a Northern Territory photography group.

Please feel free to visit our site at Northern Territory If you like what you see then you would be more than welcome to join, submit your first photo(s) and enter our first challenge – your favourite Northern Territory place!

Rosina & Adrian (co-hosts)

Wow, that looks pretty awesome!

This is beautiful!
The clouds look awesome