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Midnight Lightning Strike
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Uploaded: 08/30/04 3:39 PM GMT
Midnight Lightning Strike
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Taken on 8-30-04, Cocoa Beach...at midnight.
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lsdsoft
08/30/04 4:32 PM GMT
Great picture. I've been trying to capture lightning for awhile without much success. I'm jealous ;-)
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great capture, it got me wondering why is the sky always purple in lightning strikes??? because i've seen some others that i've taken, not nearly as well, but they are also somewhat purple. mind if i edit this and try a rework? i love the purple, but its maybe a little distracting
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"To err is human, to blame it on someone else is even more human"
I love to watch storms over the ocean. This a great photo. Nice work.
Russ
Russ
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Quite possibly the best lighting capture I've ever seen. How did you get it? (camera, how did you trigger the shutter, etc.) As much info as you feel like giving me would be great. Again, nice shot.
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-Joby
Amazing, into my favorites it goed... 10/10.
Great timing.
Great timing.
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(<->.<(<->.<->)>.<->) They are watching you!
another awesome image from our resident lightning wizard. This one is very striking, the movement of the light through the second cloud and the initial burst of light adds alot of interest to this image. I like it alot. The sky is a bit grainy, but who really cares haha.
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The easiest way to miss a shot is to not venture far enough to find it.
Wonderful shot! I love the way it looks as if the lightning is striking the water. I can't imagine the patience it must take to capture!
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" - Edgar Allen Poe
It so good to see others that enjoy lightning as much as I do. Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment and vote.
Mayne- Your "Electric Sky" images inspired me to try capturing lightning in the first place. :c)
Mayne- Your "Electric Sky" images inspired me to try capturing lightning in the first place. :c)
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
this is defintely your best one yet - excellent detail and colour clarity.
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"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps"
That's spectacular work
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Beautiful! The exposure is just right to give detail in the clouds and water without burning out the lightning too much, and the detail in the lightning itself is astonishing. Great work, Tom :-)
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Wonderful! 10/10...it's too bad there's nothing available over 10.
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Open your eyes, it's time you realize
It's your own demise.
Open your eyes, it's time you realize
To reach out for the prize.
DON'T BLINK!
--Pillar, "Open Your Eyes"
It looks like it is ripping through the fabric of time. It's really cool. Lightning is very powerful, and you captured it very well. Good job.
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~You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you are sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints?
Superb capture!!!! Yowzah! Now that's Force Majeur!!! Couldn't you get closer? :op
Adding :10/10
Jubbly.
Adding :10/10
Jubbly.
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Hey, I'm the visionary, you come up with the nuts and bolts.
A great photo, Tom. Wow! 432 downloads & 92:100 c-index!!! Congrats :-)
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"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent" (I. Asimov)
This is simply stunning. It must have been a memorable moment for you. Its on my hard disk for future inspiration.
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There are three colours, Ten digits and seven notes, its what we do with them that’s important.
Ruth Ross
Not sure how I missed this one till now, this is just fantastic.
Well done.
JuneBug
Well done.
JuneBug
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We all have guardian angels watching over us.....
Protecting us from those who harm, or from some we just can't trust..
I love this picture.. lighting is amazing and I am overjoyed to have such an awesome picture of it on my desktop.
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every living creature on earth dies alone - donnie darko
Absolutely Outstanding.... Lightning is almost impossible to photograph. Your chances are probably better being hit by it. I give this one a ten
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Excellent! I've always wanted the joy of capturing a strike like that.
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Super duper photo - 10/10!
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future"
Split second shot with the camera, always cool to get something like that on the camera... wtg
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"-Life is a pile of crap, just have to shovel through it"
Lightning has always excited me =)
This is one of the best photo's I've ever seen. I wish I could give you more than 10.
This is one of the best photo's I've ever seen. I wish I could give you more than 10.
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This is a stunning shot. However did u get it. Do you have one of those gadgets that measures electrical currents in the air or were you just really lucky. I find the second hard to believe since you have so many lightening shots. Whats your technique!?
Just thought id say that i think all your lighten shots are a feat of brilliance whatever you did. Thanks for sharing and 10/10 for this one in particular
Just thought id say that i think all your lighten shots are a feat of brilliance whatever you did. Thanks for sharing and 10/10 for this one in particular
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"We may not get what we want, but sometimes, if we try, we get what we need." Rolling Stones
I've been trying to take a good pic.of lighting bolt(s) at night with my digital cam. to use as a wallpaper on my comp. but have not had any success,thank you for yours it's breath taking!! Thanks!
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VERY COOL. i love to watch storms.
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we cant depend on people and things to make us happy. only God and his love can do that!
Add me to the list. I have no idea how I missed this. It's one of the best lightning shots I've seen. Great capture Tom.
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
fantastic
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I hold it true that thoughts are things; They're endowed with bodies, breath and wings:
And that we send them forth to fill the world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought speeds forth to earth's remotest spot, leaving it's blessings or it's woes like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, thought by thought for good or for ill, yet know it not.
Yet so the universe was wrought .
Thought is another name for fate.
Choose then thy destiny and wait, for Love brings Love and Hate brings Hate. - Henry Van Dyke.
Spectacular! Absolutely Spectacular!! This deserves at least a 15!!
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"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." -Elvis Presley
I love lightning pics, and this is the best I have seen. Well done on catching it. 10 out of ten from me.
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Wow. Great focus, lighting, and subject. Good job!
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that image is amazing, seriously, its breath taking, soo good i like it
good job =D
good job =D
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I am what i am and i do what i can...
Ah....you either have a rapid-shot camera or an amazingly quick finger. Excellent capture. Might look good black and white?
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Otaku's back?
Great capture on this, love the whole shot. Great color. Clear shot. Fantastic!!
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"Holy, holy, holy is the lord God Almighty - the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come."
Wow Tom, I just found this on the front page. I wonder where I was when it was posted 18 months ago?...obviously not sitting at my computer with my eyes glued to the screen! lol
How fascinating lighting is..this is a gorgeous capture of the electricity flowing through the sky. I captured my first lighting strike from an airplane in September 2005. The light show was amazing, but I must have shot 75 black images before I got the one strike. Someone on the site helped me clean it up & I posted it. It is nothing compared to this beauty. I am putting this on my desktop for Friday. We are supposed to have thunderstorms ..that will be cool.! Glad I found this~~~~~
How fascinating lighting is..this is a gorgeous capture of the electricity flowing through the sky. I captured my first lighting strike from an airplane in September 2005. The light show was amazing, but I must have shot 75 black images before I got the one strike. Someone on the site helped me clean it up & I posted it. It is nothing compared to this beauty. I am putting this on my desktop for Friday. We are supposed to have thunderstorms ..that will be cool.! Glad I found this~~~~~
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~ Mimi~
Very impressive, believe me i no how hard it is to capture lightning.
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To heir is human, but to forgive divine.
My gosh, you have been in caedes a long time eh? and THIS photo has too I guess. It is an amazing shot...what a great picture to be able to capture...Congrats on this beauty!
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If you can't make waves, make ripples ~~~~
Wow. Very difficult capture of a lightning strike so big. That must have been split second timing. I think I would go to a photo editing program and render the sky darker however, to make the lightening stand out even more.
Awesome capture.
Pat
Awesome capture.
Pat
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Nice photo. You must have been swimming a long time to get that. I admire your patience....and swimming ability.
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There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again. (groan)
Thanks everyone.
DigiCamMan, I was nice and dry on the beach when I took this photo. I may be a bit crazy to go outside to capture lightning, but I have enough sense not to be in the water during a electrically active storm.
DigiCamMan, I was nice and dry on the beach when I took this photo. I may be a bit crazy to go outside to capture lightning, but I have enough sense not to be in the water during a electrically active storm.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
The Very BEST photography I have ever seen!!! Most excellent work my friend!!!
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~ Fewer words say a lot ~
Great pic there....very quick eye. love the cloud cover.
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Storms and especially lightning are a fav of mine...very powerful great capture
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In Assenza Di Te
I'm really late in discovering this because I'm new to Caedes, but I think it is one of the best of its kind that I've ever seen. I love good photos of lightning, and I know how difficult lightning is to capture. Great job!
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Awesome! Great shot. I am curious about how to capture lightning as well. I suppose if you lived in a lightning heavy state or country... it would be easier. Good picture!
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WOW! How amazing! Wonderful capture and lovely composition.
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"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing."
Like everyone else commenting on this photo, Amazing!! Really awesome picture and perfect timing! Can't wait to browse the rest of your gallery!
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And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back-if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day? C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet