Thursday, June 26, 2008

Lightning Strike



I took this shot at the Kissimmee Lakefront on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, as a stormed rolled in from the east.

62 comments:

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Champ: Great capture with the center lightning strike.

Flying Solo said...

Wow!! What a GREAT photo!!

You shooted in exact moment!

Anonymous said...

I'm back ... oh no, cried blog world ... he's back!

And thunder and lightning come rolling down from the skies trying to stop him from being back!

Unknown said...

great capture of the lightning!
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Anonymous said...

Lightening strikes are very difficult to time and capture properly--you've done an amazing job.

Anonymous said...

Great catch

Anne said...

Never ever seen a lightening on the sky watch before... Just great.

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Texas Travelers said...

Great lightening catch.

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Rose said...

Now that is a great capture!

Tom said...

What a 'Strikingly' beautiful shot.. right place right time...:O)

Angie said...

Wow, you caught that just at the right moment! That's superb.

SandyCarlson said...

I hope you had rubber-soled shoes on when you took that! That is some close lightening. Great shot.

Michele said...

Egads! That's incredible. Very nice!
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Juliana said...

wow...what a perfect time for shot

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Sandpiper (Lin) said...

Whoa! That's a great shot! I've tried to get a good lightning picture, but haven't ever gotten any that were really good.

Anonymous said...

Great chance and shot.

Carletta said...

Patience - and he SCORES!

Awesome!!!!

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Pat - Arkansas said...

Entirely too KEWL! (I'm showing my age, I know.) Super capture!

bobbie said...

Oh yes! I know from experience, it is not easy to capture a lightning strike.

Voz do meu Coração said...

Simply wonderful this picture, congratulations.

Cape Cod Washashore said...

How fabulous to catch that lightning strike! Wonderful skywatch photo!

Reader Wil said...

Wow, this must have been right in time! Great shot.

Aisha said...

Amazing! Not easy to capture. Scary lightning. I would love to take photos of it too.

Louise said...

I've never been so lucky. Or would that be so patient?

Berit T said...

Beautiful!! Lucky you!!!

Petunia said...

I always wanted to take a shot like this. It is awesome!

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Pretty Life Online said...

Perfect one for SWF! Which reminds me the quote... "we all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon".... Mine's up too hope you can drop by. Happy Weekend!

Anonymous said...

WOW, that's an amazing capture! Bravo!

Gemma Wiseman said...

O wow! This is awesome! This would have to be a rare shot of lightning without heaps of dark clouds!

Trish ~ ♥ ~ said...

Sky Watch ~ fun people taking amazing photos, nicely done. Hope you were inside!

Jane Hards Photography said...

Wow! herons and lightening stries. You are going thorugh my wish list photography this week. This is an awesome shot. Extremely well done.

Raven said...

Way cool! So sharp and clear. Well done!

Anonymous said...

I've tried catching a lightning strike, but I've never been able to. Happy Sky Watch Friday!!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for bringing lightning to blogland!!

Mustang Mike said...

Neat capture. My family is all from Florida and one lives right near where that picture was taken. Thanks for sharing. Mustang Mike

Ladynred said...

Wow! right on time to catch it! Great shot!
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Patty said...

Perfect shot!

Neva said...

wow....that is an awesome catch...how in the world did you get that so well???? I am impressed.

Janice Thomson said...

Oh my George that is one awesome shot!

Linda Reeder said...

Great shot, grreat timing!

Unknown said...

WOW!

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Anonymous said...

this is amazing. great capture

Anonymous said...

Oh yes! That is brilliant. Having tried, with small success, to get images of lightning, I know how hard this is - very well done.

Suzanne said...

What a great photo. Very clever to get such a dramatic lightening strike. Hope you were not playing golf nearby.

Rune Eide said...

Lucky hit - I mean, I hope nobvody was hurt!

Andrea said...

AWESOME lightning shot. I love it. I have not mastered a bolt of lightnng yet. Guess I am too slow.

AnneKa said...

What a great photo.
Have a nice weekend!

Unknown said...

That is almost impossible to capture. Great job!!!!!

Alan said...

Possibly from the same line of storms that gave me my lightning photo for today, also taken on the 25th. :)

Small City Scenes said...

Beautiful capture. MB

esnorway said...

nice shoot

Unknown said...

Great capture and perfect timing.
Well done GT!

Shimmy Mom said...

Awesome shot. Lightening is so hard to capture.

Marie said...

WOW!!! Great catch!

Naturegirl said...

GREAT CAPTURE WOW! You sure are fast with the click!!! Good one!!

Dina said...

Wow, a real "bolt out of the blue"!
Good job. Very dramatic and high-energy.

Kahshe Cottager said...

You got this at exactly the right moment! Well done!

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Lynette said...

Golly! How neat is that!?!

abb said...

Serendipitous photo! Perfect SWF!

Anonymous said...

Incredible - thanks for sharing