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Published: 2006-09-07 17:49:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 2145; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 37
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Original title, eh?This was taken about a month ago. We had a lightning storm come through in the middle of one of our 110 degree spells. It was a nice reprieve from the heat. Anyway, I just got my new camera *huggles camera* so I went out and laid in the pasture for an hour taking pictures. I actually only caught 4 pictures (of 93) with lightning in it; even with a long exposure it would always flash right after the pictures was taken and was being saved. Go figure.
Taken at about 9 pm in Eastern Washington with a Canon Powershot A520. Only modifications in photoshop was the border and the sig.
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Great shot
I like the way the lightning looks like a needle going through the clouds
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Thanks! I got lucky, but then again, all lightning shots have a good deal of luck to them
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Really cool shot.. it looks like the clouds are pointing downwards O_o
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Thanks! Sometimes Nature does all the work for you
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The biggest thing on the news here a few days ago was about wearing ipods when it rains and how it can kill you by sending the electric shock through your earphones into your brain! I dunno where that comment came from but yeah lol~! Want useless knowledge come to me.
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lol well its a good thing i only use my MP3 player when I drive, eh?
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Just make sure the windows are closed and you're not wearing the earphones!
Hey you just said the Canadian "eh?" 
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yes, I said the Canadian eh. I'm not Canadian but I've picked up a bit of an accent since I up there alot of hockey. My teammates make fun of me constantly for it.
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I soooo cant wait to try to snap some lightning pics this spring and summer w/ my new digi. I got some on my cell but they looked like crap. Great catch though
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thank you! Long exposures rock
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i dont have long exposure on my 100 dollar cam so its gonna be interesting tryin to catch some
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sad! Can you adjust the shutter speed at all, or have a 'bulb' setting? If not, you'll probably end up taking 300 pictures trying to get one lightning bolt. I think I took 130 pictures during this storm since the longest exposure I could get was 16 seconds (which always ends .0003 seconds before the next lightning strike).
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No, i cant, my digi is limited with the features. No long or short exposure and no way to change the shutter speed haha. So im going to have to do what you said, sit there and take hundreds of pics probably. Which isn't a problem, I was able to catch some lightning bolts on my cell phone doing that, but they didnt turn out right, it was just a bright spot. Plus when I did it w/ the cell..there was a dark bar cuz of the sudden change in brightness haha.
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I love lightning storms! I just don't love them when my computer is plugged in!
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Mhmm! That's why it's good to get protection...
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Beautiful! i love lightening. i took a trip to NM and there was a bucket load of rain and lightening the entire time....great drive...so beautiful.
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Awsome pic, love the colours and i love lightning...its never purple here
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aww ours is usually purply... maybe we have special polution in our area
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hahaha lol maybe you do, but ahh well its awsome
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woaw ! i like the thunder and lightning as you can see in my gallery 
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i love the colour of the sky, its a beautiful purple
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Woa... I love storms, good shot... was it hard to capture?
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not particularly hard... although I did take like 190 shots that night and my timing was just off enough that the lightning ALWAYS flashed right after my camera was finished exposing, so I only got 3 actual lightning shots that night. But it wasn't too hard to lay in a field and push a button on a camera ;D
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love it
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I've always loved lightning, and I get to see a lot of it where I live.
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lucky. We have one or two decent storms in the spring but this year we had one in late august (weird, but so has the rest of the weather).
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This is what our storms produce:
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Pretty crazy stuff..
That tree in the first one covered our entire street.
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crazy... but at least it provides good photo ops!
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Yeah, I really wish I had a camera, because I can't tell you how many tmes I've seen something and thought, "Damn, that would be a great photo.."
I think that'll be the one thing I want most for Christmas
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You're welcome!
Pls visit my gallery..
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THanks Chels. Me too; its all lightningy and purdy
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