Saturday Snapshots is hosted each week by Alyce of the blog At Home With Books. Its a fun, non-book-related meme and it's always neat to see what photos people are taking each week, or at some points in their past.
Lightning Strikes
I took this one a couple of years ago now and I'm still fairly impressed with my luck. I've never been able to get one like it again - we just don't get thunderstorms like that very often. The lighting was coming down so often that I was able to just point the camera at one place and keep shooting. This was one of about five hundred shots taken in less than an hour. Simply blind luck.
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Thanks Vicki! Glad you like it.
Perseverance does pay off! Well done. Thanks for sharing it.
Oh wow, that's so cool. I don't think I've ever been able to capture lightening.
Wow...what an unusual capture. I'm usually indoors hiding when this happens...LOL
I've tried to get a picture of lightning before and have never been successful. Yours is great. Here's My Saturday Snapshot
I do love the look of lightning streaking across a dark sky. Thanks for sharing.
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Perfect timing, I agree. And an artistic shot. Lovely!
That's amazing! Congratulations on getting just a great shot.
I am terrible with weather photo's so I really appreciate your efforts.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful shot!
I live in thunderstorm alley...especially during the Spring...I'll have to try this sometime...cool :)
Professionals make it look easy, because you don't see the hundreds of shots that go into getting a perfect image. This is a really great pic!
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Nice! Luck is good. Without luck a lot of great photos wouldn't exist. I'm still trying to get a good lightening shot.
Great photo. I don't think I would have been this brave.
Awesome.
Spectacular! Trying to get shoes of lightening must have been fun...since lightening "doth cease to be 'ere one can say, 'It lightened'".
That is so cool! We get about one thunderstorm a year and it's usually in the dead of night. I'd love to get a lucky shot like that.
Thanks everyone. It really was an incredible thunderstorm. If I'm remembering correctly, there was a lightning strike somewhere around every five seconds or so. Maybe less. And then there was the sky. It went this weird red colour. I've never seen a storm like it before or since.
So much of photography is timing - catching something at just the right moment. Great photo!
Thanks, Booksync. It really is, and I feel so lucky to have gotten this shot.
That's a beautiful picture.
I always love it when you can luck into a great shot! Great picture of the lightning strike.
Here's my Snapshot: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/11/saturday-snapshot-november-5.html
Thanks Michael and Bev. I'm glad you like the photos. Yes, luck is definitely a major part of photography, at least for me.
Awesome! I'm impressed that you got such a beautiful shot of something so fleeting. Great colours, nice composition.
Thanks, Marie. That was just an amazing day for photos. I've never seen one like it since.
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