Electricity

[ahill876]

Captured this a year ago on a canoe trip along the French river, I spent the rest of the trip just waiting to get home to see it on a big screen

[nhmom]

Beautiful! You were lucky you made it home it looks like.

There's a report of someone being hit by lightening yesterday afternoon on a hiking trail by a local lake. He didn't make it. His wife did survive. The storm came up suddenly. Scary because I was about 20 miles away on a different lake when I heard the thunder.

Patty

[smac]

That's a very cool shot. You are very lucky to have captured the strike. I have found the timing of such a shot is a real hit or miss affair. In my case mostly miss. :lol:

Nicely done.

Steve

[Walter C]

Terrific shot!

[yesterday]

Great shot. That takes a lot of patience.

[ahill876]

Thanks everyone!
We've had quite a few electrical storms roll through our area in the past week. I had my camera pointed out my bedroom window and captured a lot of strikes. They don't look as nice as the one I've posted because of light pollution from the city, the sky has an orange tint to it. I did shoot RAW though so I guess if I took the time I could fix it

[calr]

Wow! Instead of waiting to get home and see the photo, I would think you would have been anxiously waiting to get home to avoid getting hit! Good work.

Cal

[wytch]

Wow that is an excellent capture.
How is it done?
I can't see managing it with my P&S or with my companions dSLR.

We kayak and canoe a lot, and being out on the water during a storm is something we definitely try to avoid.

[Bynx]

Very nice elusive shot. Here is a bit more detail.

[ahill876]

wytch wrote:

We kayak and canoe a lot, and being out on the water during a storm is something we definitely try to avoid.

wytch, we had a group of 12 on this trip and many of the campsites were too small for us. We had just finished a portage, the night was closing in (so was the storm) and we still hadn't found a site. A canoe went ahead of us to scope at a site shown on our map, and everyone cheered when we heard them shout across the bay that it was big enough. The storm continued to get closer and after I set up my tent I set up my tripod. A few failed exposures later I finally caught that one and moments after it showed up on my screen it started pouring hard. I dove into my tent with my camera and spent a good 20 minutes zooming in on the little 2 inch screen examining every inch of that picture