Lightning – Living Dangerously. Photo #1 by TED
Lightning over Australia. Photo #2 by Paul Hocksenar
Lightning – a stormy field. Photo #3 by Luis Argerich
Lightning over Baciu’s forest in Romania. Photo #4 by Camil Tulcan
Lightning creates Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photo #5 by Jose Pedro
Lightning strikes light up the bow of USS Abraham Lincoln. U.S. Navy Photo #6 by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Aaron Ansarov
Toronto thunderstorm – lightning. Photo #7 by John R Southern
Charleston Blues – Lightning over Charleston, South Carolina. Photo #8 by TED
Nature vs man – Spain Lightning. Photo #9 by TimOve
Captured lightning over Hermosillo, Mexico. Photo #10 by José Eugenio Gómez Rodríguez
Lightning in the desert. Photo #11 by Greg McCown
Strike One! Photo #12 by Luis Argerich
Lightning on Brazil Beach. Photo #13 by Luiz Henrique Assunção
Rainbow with lightning over Kawana Island. Photo #14 by thinboyfatter
Finding Earth. More than 750 lightning strikes pierced the Sydney sky over two hours this night. Photo #15 by Ben Bishop
Fireworks in the Lightning Storm. Photo #16 by Trey Ratcliff
Highway 52 Storm Cell – Two and a Half Minutes of Lightning Strikes. Photo #17 by Bo Insogna, TheLightningMan.com
Into the storm. Photo #18 by James Clear
Lightning – Darwin, Australia. Photo #19 by Mark Silva
Lightning in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo #20 by Chaval Brasil
Toronto lightning and tower. Photo #21 by Sam Javanrouh
Lightning Show in Nevada. Photo #22 by Roadsidepictures
Lightning storm over Berlin. Photo #23 by Matt Biddulph
Lightning, Morro Bay, California. Photo #24 by marlin harms
Hell is about to break loose. Photo #25 by Jay Lee
Electric Loop – lightning storm in Chicago. Photo #26 by discopalace
Lightning! Photo #27 by Vinod Kumar M.
Night Thunderstorm. Photo #28 by Louis Vest
Summer Storm in Saragossa, Spain. Photo #29 by Paulo Brandao
Lightning in Switzerland. Photo #30 by Alexandre Pizzera
Touchdown Brisbane. Photo #31 by Matthew Stewart
Single Double Strike lightning. Photo #32 by ViaMoi
Multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes during night-time. Observed during night-time thunderstorm. Photo #33 by C. Clark / NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
Yikes lightning strike! Photo #34 by mark coldren
Lightning over Shellharbour, Australia. Photo #35 by Steven (The Waterboy)
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla! Photo #36 by Luis Argerich
1.21 JiggaWatts! Photo #37 by Mike Behnken
Lightning – lights are from Hampton Roads Tunnel, Norfolk, Virgina. Photo #38 by Matthew Sullivan
Ride the Lightning. Photo #39 by Owen Zammit
Prairie Lightning Storm. Photo #40 by Rachel Patterson
Electrical storm over Brisbane, Australia. Photo #41 by Richard Fisher
Lightning Over Athens – the end is near! Photo #42 by mark coldren
Lightning week. Photo #43 by erissiva
Twin lightnings. Photo #44 by Alberto Jaspe
Twas a dark and stormy night. Photo #45 by David
High Yar!!!
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Holy sh*t! What an awesome collection! That dude in #42 is crazy to stand there.
Keep up the great work!
Very awesome photos. I love both of the Toronto skyline shots.
Thanks for sharing!
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I liked the Toronto shots as well. I wish more of the city shots would have said what cities they were in.
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Wow. Those are some incredible photos. The Athens one with many bolts of lightning is phenomenal.
Awesome collection of lightning images, this is one of my favourite subjects to shoot.
That was an amazing little trip you took us through. It had the feel of being dangerous and I never left my seat, but was everywhere.
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Both the photos by TED are not one photo but a bad photoshop job if you care to look closely. People are so gullible. In the first image the jetty and sea is not the same image as the sky and lightning. Also the Charleston shot is clearly two different images. Rubbish and not even a good job of it.
I also have my doubts about that Athens shot. To capture all those bolts of lightning would have required a long shutter speed and hence the foreground with the man in it should have been incredibly overexposed. I think this is multiple images which have the lightning parts of the image blended in. Not a bad job of it though. But what I do find interesting is that the man casts one strong shadow despite multiple light sources – AND multiple close lightning bolts. There is a weaker shadow to the left I must admit… but I still have my doubts. I think these are separate images.
While I’m on the same topic, two other shots are clearly fakes. (And there are probably others which are fakes where it is not so clear.)
These are: #3 Lightning – a stormy field. Mr Argerich has combined two different images – the field and the sky. Have you ever seen a cloud base at ground level?
In #36 Mr Argerich has again faked a shot. The lightning might be the real thing but the reflection is obviously false. Look at the reflections in the distance where the water meets the opposite shore – bizarre…
But there are some other good shots I commend: #24, #31, #45
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