It's that time of year! Check out these sweeeeeet pics!

[blu_fuz]

Storms, lightning, tornados, and all kinds of fun stuff to watch. Here are some shots I got of a storm that opened up right over our tiny city and went 1 mile north and 1 mile south dumping TONS of rain. We didn't get a drop, but I did get some kick ass pictures.

Here is a neat comparison at my house, fist pic no lightning and the ones after it with the sky LIT UP

 

[redbenjoe]

absolutely awesome !!!

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from july thru september -
florida looks just like that -
about 50 nights per year

 

[skippy1969]

VERY COOL Joe!!!!!!!

 

[hollyrockets]

That's COOL STUFF!

You know what's weird? We've lived VERY NEAR the Puget Sound since 2001. We have wind, rain, and rain, and rain, but no thunder and lightning. I think it has to do with static electricity and a journey over land causing the drama.

It's been SO LONG since I've heard thunder and seen lightning. I'm tired of the rain, though.

Can anyone help me find a place in the sun near the water with not much snow, but not too hot? HELP!

 

[AZA]

Fantastic pictures !

And lightninig storms are cool

 

[stormsven]

Insane cool pictures . And is pretty nice to be in the center of the storms but staying dry .

 

[kingrat2010]

great pictures

 

[blu_fuz]

Thanks


It was a fun night

 

[Fatdog]

Those are great pictures, Joe! I'm guessing you were using a tripod. Did you have the shutter on 'bulb' or were you just using that fast trigger finger?

 

[blu_fuz]

With my Nikon D40 I just have it set to auto focus, no flash, set the delay timer, held down the tripod (it was windy as hell), hit the button, camera exposure was about 5-8 seconds. I didn't adjust any settings on the camera, basically a point-and-shoot with no flash and a tripod. There was so much lightning that I was just pressing the button after each picture it got done exposing to get as many shots as I could and I sifted out all the junky shots.