[Theme] Show Your Lightning Shots!

[MFloyd]

This evening thunderstorm (Wallis, CH).


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[Tom Hook]

Nice shot, the mountain storm reminds me of Mordor!

[Snoogly]

Nice shot, the mountain storm reminds me of Mordor!

But which Mordor? It’s become a controversial point these days.

[Tom Hook]

But which Mordor? It’s become a controversial point these days.

I'm stumped, I thought there was only one. I must add it's been a while since I've delved into my Tolkien troves.

[Snoogly]

I'm stumped, I thought there was only one. I must add it's been a while since I've delved into my Tolkien troves.

Amazon Prime … very controversial!

[MFloyd]

Nice shot, the mountain storm reminds me of Mordor!

Thx Tom  . I was lucky: I programmed the camera for 1 hour of 5s shots (1200 shots), but I got this one, only after a dozen of clicks. Taken with the D850 and my antiquated Nikkor UD 20mm f/3.5.

[MFloyd]

I live in a quite good area (blue cercle) for encountering light strikes (mountains, Geneva lake, water); the best area being in the south (Ticino) where you have the Swiss-Italian lakes.


Lightning strikes Switzerland
Number of lightning strikes air to ground, per annum, per square kilometer. You have to multiply this figure by x3 to take into account the air-to-air strikes. Source: MeteoSwiss

[Akira]

This evening thunderstorm (Wallis, CH).

Sorry for my belated reply.  This is truly spectacular image!  Thank you for sharing.

[Akira]

This was shot about 25 minutes after the sunset.

This is my first lightning image I've ever shot while the clouds were still reflecting fair amount of sunlight.  It was very challenging.

Shot with Sigma fp @ISO100 with Ai Micro Nikkor 55/3.5 @f16 with an ND64 filter.

[Hugh_3170]

Nice image Akira -reward for effort. 


 

This was shot about 25 minutes after the sunset.

This is my first lightning image I've ever shot while the clouds were still reflecting fair amount of sunlight.  It was very challenging.

Shot with Sigma fp @ISO100 with Ai Micro Nikkor 55/3.5 @f16 with an ND64 filter.

[Akira]

Nice image Akira -reward for effort. 

Thank you, Hugh!

[MFloyd]

Sorry for my belated reply.  This is truly spectacular image!  Thank you for sharing.

Thx Akira-san 

[Thomas G]

This is not a picture post, but maybe it will help those on the hunt for lightning:

https://www.blitzortung.org/de/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10
and the related project
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;

Helpful when in the great outdoors anyway.

[Akira]

This is not a picture post, but maybe it will help those on the hunt for lightning:

https://www.blitzortung.org/de/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10
and the related project
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;

Helpful when in the great outdoors anyway.

Wow, these are amazingly handy tool!  I wish there's an international version.

[Thomas G]

Wow, these are amazingly handy tool!  I wish there's an international version.

There are different areas on the to top left to click on:
Overview (Übersicht)
Europa
Ozeanien
Nordamerika
Asien
Südamerika
Afrika
Japan
Kasachstan ...