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Published: 2002-08-20 10:16:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 2974; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 299
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No tripod, wrong film speed and swarms of mosquitos didn't stop me from shooting a couple of rolls of this awesome thunderhead as it brewed into a phenomanal storm. Amazingly, most of the other shots from this night turned out well.It would have been nice to capture all the fireflies buzzing around at the time.
One of my personal favorites. Photo is 100% untouched.
NOTE: Sorry for the crappy scanner, I'll try to get a better scan if there's a demand.
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lol. srry wrong icon for the thunder.
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awesome! I heart thunderstorms :iconcutelightningplz:
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Wow! What a rare image to see! 
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holy shit thats cool,love the colours! That is one hell of a capture you got there! def a
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This is a great shot! I like the colour and the composition, the powerlines in the forground is a real nice touch
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........................................WOW............................. .
That is an awesome picture, its amazing! I love how the colors just radiate out from the bolt. I never see lightning around where I live, just lots of rain.
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The best part of this picture is, I think the burst in the cloud, with the contrat between the purple and dark-blue. Another nice detail (full view) is the small visible part of the lightning at the horizon. Which is great also.
Sometimes you indeed make this pictures, so unreal people believe it isn't real, but HELL IT IS.
I am confused about the power wires at that angle, so where you standing on top of something high? No it's probably also because they are not tightly stretched.
The perspective is nice, because it has two points of focus at the horizon, one being the lightning, the other the point-of-disappearance of the wires.
Best are the colors still, so too bad it isn't scanned better.
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youΒ΄re lucky to catch this moment! very nice colors!
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I totally understand...that was my first thought, that the light from the lightning just obscured the powerline, and that it was a scanner trick...my hubby and I have one, and it does some really wierd shit sometimes. Don't listen to that guy, it's a great shot, and aside from the graininess, you did a fabulous job. Right place, right time, the whole nine yards.
The thumbnail amazed me, and the full version just blew me away. I've always wanted to get a capture like this during a storm.
Great Job!
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VERY cool pic! Amazing that you got this without a tripod! Very funny little commenting conversation you've got going on here. If I may add my 2 cents... I do not think the illusion of the lightening going in front of the power lines is a scanner issue. Bright light has a tendency to wrap around silhouetted objects (such as your power line) and blur the edges. This power line is is so small that it's easy for it to get totally obscured by the lightening. I'm sure if you look at the film, or print, you will see that it does the same thing.
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Look man, what the hell is your major malfunction? You're simply wrong about the photograph. And I don't appreciate you spamming my deviation with your assinine comments. You and your other 'authorotative friends' are simply wrong, can you understand that?
The photo's been featured in festivals, exposed to countless authorities and other professional photographers. Don't you think that if it was somehow 'trickery' that it would have been detected by now? I have an 2 complete contact sheets from this shoot! My negatives are in a climate controlled vault!
You can't begin to imagine how carefully that particular photograph has been scrutinized by every form of magnification possible. The detail of the photo reveals the tiniest filaments of plasma sifting through the clouds which - I state again, are roughly a mile away.
I don't know how you interpret that the main shot goes behind and back and behind again the wires but you're simply wrong. I was there, I took the photograph and I REALLY DON'T FUCKING APPRECIATE YOUR INFERENCE.
The bolt travels from the ground up - the tiny portion at the bottom of the frame, piercing the cloudburst above - but maybe all that works differently in the dimension you're in.
Do NOT spam my deviation again with your assumptions.
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look, last post i swear...... ok so i am to beleive that the lightning bolt originated 1 mile away, then flew forward, came in front of the power lines, then flew back a mile to be behind some clouds, then forward again to be in front of the power lines, then back again to be behind the power pole, then way back........
i know lightning is fickled, but sheesh
so far i have shown it to 3 people, all conclude what i beleive
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but hey, thats just my opinion, maybe im totally wrong, when the print comes out, let me know, id like to see the better qaulity version
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i never said i didnt like the picture, i do, i think its nice...
as for the lucky to be alive, thik about it.. sure the thunder head is a mile a way.. according to the picture, the lightning wasnt, as it came down, streaking towards you, went over the top of the lines, underneath them, then backwards, to appear back behind the power pole, then presumably, to appear in the closer to ground strike..... amaxing if you ask me...
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Thanks for your expert scientific opinion. I'm not arguing with you, see what you want. I have the joy and priveledge of having experienced AND captured this moment on film. I have an entire role of shots like this and will be having this and others printed in the very near future.
"Lucky to be alive"? This thunderhead was at least a mile away and as for the shot itself, I wouldn't change a single thing.
To everyone else who commented and appreciates this piece, thank you. Look forward to a photographic print available soon.
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i suppose theres always a chance that the scanner is to blame.. and honestly i cant really say yes or no to that, because scanners have been known to play some tricks..... but as it appears, the lightning goes in front of the power lines, the only way for this to be possible in nature, would be for the bolt to have originated where it did, fly towards you, going over the lines, then arcing backwards to go back behind the power pole..... and if this is the case, you should consider yourself lucky, that you are alive, and that the shot came out like this......course if that were the case then the power lines would be more lit up, which is why i am apt to think it may have been a scanner trick, or a second layer
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This 100% untouched, like I said. As for the 'glitches', my scanner is to blame. The only modification from the original scan was a simple resize (bicubic) nothing else was done to the image.
I'm having this piece re-printed and properly scanned so it can be made available via DevPrints.
Thanks for commenting your dissention.
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well it is interesting, but taking it into paint shop pro, reveals some very interesting glitches....specifically where the lightning passes in front of the power lines in a few areas....i cant really vote, since this was placed as untouched..... and to my eye, it is quite touched...
i do like the image as a whole, but i dont think it was 100% untouched.... i could be wrong, but i dont think so
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Awesome shot, great colours, great work, well done.
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DEMANDS---get a better scanner!!!!!!!!!!!! nature is so beautifully "powerful" good shot..nice patience.
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lucky you, to have such bragging rights as to taking this picture
its quite the hard task to capture lightning in such a profound way.
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oh wow great shot! The colors are great and I usually hate when power lines get in photos but these are actually very complimetary!
great shot, you have beautiful work!!
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I've never seen lighting more beautiful than this.
Thank you for sharing, zero.
Keep it up! WAYYY up!
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wow this is such a great capture *bbows down* this is an instant +FAV omg i just cant express how much i like this shot. wow! great great work!
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Love it! I love lightning photography, nice blues. I have only done lightning photography in black and white, I'll have to try color sometime. The only difficulty is waiting for those moments when there is lightning but no rain.
quirk out.
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Stunning. I love the deep-purple tone.
~kit~
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Awesome colours! I love the contrast between the deep, dark blue-black of twilight with the amethyst-coloured rays :] Excellent shot
+fav
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Beautiful sky. Those power lines are a nice way to border the shot and are a good contrast. heh, and if ya wanna get corny...they help portray the "power" of the storm. sorry A new clean scan could be wallpaper worthy.
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Wow. This is another amazing photo. I have to vote "yes" on the power lines. They give it another dimension entirely. Great shot. I adore thunderstorms.
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wow... seen quite a few lightning shots round here... this one is definitely one of the better ones indeed...
and without a tripod and such... very good work
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If you get your hands on a better scanner, I'd like to see this again.
Even so, great job, as already commented the man .vs nature, and also capturing the whole length of the lightning from the start through the clouds down to the ground (or is that a different one at the bottom?). I actually sprained my toe trying to get outside at 3am to check out a thunderstorm so loud it shook my house. So my toe thinks this and all other pics of storms stink! But then when we start listening to our toes, we should start collecting gopher wood.
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holy CRAP, that's godly.
You did an amazing job with this photograph. One of the things I like about it is the conjunction of man-made and natural electricity -- the towers look ominious, the natural lighting beautiful and wild and scary.
The colors are fabulous as well.
Very, very classy job.
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Excellent shot!! I love the location to, since they're electrical power lines and it's lightning.... No tripod?! Amazing.
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Amazing shot. Kind of has an "end of the world" vibe. Great job!
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This picture scared the hell out of me. Such an amazing capture-- I'm a fan of the power lines, myself.
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Great shot! Definitely a fav.
I'm torn between liking the power lines and disliking them. In one sense, they are in the way, but in another, it is an interesting contrast of man-made electricity versus mother-nature's electricity.
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novi, I see what you're saying but at the time, I wasn;t thinking wallpaper, I was thinking 'holy crap!'
Thanks for the feedback everyone, glad you like the shot.
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If used as a wallpaper, I think the power lines detract. BUT! As an image, this is terrific. The juxtaposition of the power lines with the quite menacing thunderhead speak of the struggle between Man and Nature. As in, Nature saying "look who's REALLY master of electricity" or something. Great stuff.
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Great shot, beautiful lightning and nice contrast between the shy and the powerline masts.
I really like it!
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damn this is beautiful. completely unreal.. the colors, the location, everything.. just.. wow.
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