lightning moon

this is great thecloud and lightning are terrific superb

Great shot steen was that in the last few weeks…

Beautiful,love the lighting.

10 out of 10

hey this is unreal….. wow infact…. amazing capture…...

awesome work Steen, looks somewhat supernatural!

Fantastic

Wow amazing light show!

superb…

I like it, but I have to say it, this looks so obviously photo-shopped, it takes away some of it for me. I think the concept is a very good one, though.

Wow, Fantastic image!!

I looked several times… it’s beautiful, don’t get me wrong. It just looks altered. I’m truly not trying to be mean. I just think the ‘natural occurrence’ has somehow been lost in the process. The photo is amazingly beautiful, but looks contrived to me. I’m just being honest about what I see.

The image is surreal because it’s so shockingly unusual. It would help if you gave some of the elements of the scene to us. Such as, is the lightning hitting water? Are the city lights in some sort of bowl of mountains and trees? What was the season and the week’s weather like?

I can’t find a single thing in the shot that actually looks altered so I’m believing you that it’s all but exactly as taken with minor enhancement for clarity. It probably qualifies for “as is”. LOL! But without seeing the location in more light or knowing where it is personally, the image is extremely wild for someone who’s never seen any sort of weather like this in any location like this. Wollongong???

Bottom line from me is that this shot is award winning material if judges know a bit more and study it carefully.

Thanks Lenny, and good point
The lightning is hitting the ocean, the lights you see in the ocean are coal/cargo ships of the coast of wollongong. the pic was taken from Mt Pleasant on the escarpement overlooking the coastal plains of Fairy Meadow & North Wollongong. the trees to the right and left are in front of the house. It was taken on 26/3/08 at 9:53pm on a canon 400D, 50mm USM lens ISO 100 TV 30sec AV F1.4

Redbubble….Geoff Coleman caught the same storm for 45 minutes up the coast. the lights in his pic is wollongong…copy and paste this link

http://www.redbubble.com/people/geoffcoleman/art/1018066-1-the-raging-stillness

wow – how beautiful is this – what a brilliant vantage point for a brilliant storm – magic. I’m posting a composite of the 91 exposures I took that night in the next few days – it looks pretty trippy I can tell you.

wow very cool shot – did you manipulate this?

never mind I just read your response – what perfect night and great timing!

This is brilliant and from a digital camera.

Wow…amazing shot. It is truly brilliant…I hope to one day capture the lightining in a shot.

incredible!

To good mate, brilliant

Hi, I would have croped out a bit of the blackness on the left. But wow what a stunning image this is! Never seen anything like this before!

What an amazing shot! Moon, clouds, lightening – fabulous stuff!

WOW straight to my favs. its got it all. Well done

I LOVEThis :)

This is so surreal yet believable. Love i t.

Very Surreal. Amazing work

cheers rikki…was a freak of a night

wonderful shot, I can never seem to capture these images, brilliant work and magnificant portfolio :0)

As before, I copied…I pasted…and I’m still in total awe!!! It’s now day two..still here…WoooooooW!!!

Just out of this world,stunning shot.

Congratulations on being featured on Shoot the Moon.
Well done

Wow, this is awesome!! Congratulations Steen.

WOW! Great capture of the same storm as Geoff!! Awesome lighting and effects from Mother nature! Well done!

This is amazing shot Steeno!! Awesome!

beautiful !

Stunning

Such beautiful photo-art!

Oh wow, this is amazing!

numinous!