Harvest Sky

[CapturingTheNight]

Hi all,

Thunder woke me up at 5am his morning so I jumped into my car and headed off to one of my favorite locations hoping to bag a good lightning shot or two.
Some of you might recognise this as the same location as my "Aurora Australis" "Midnight Rainbow" and "Country Life" images. I took a drive to this location chasing a different storm, but only managed one good strike from it. Just as I was thinking about packing up and heading home this little cell built up behind the other. So glad that I stayed. The lightning got a lot closer after this shot and considering that I am 6 foot 6, making me one of the tallest things around that area (and standing next to a metal tripod), I beat a hasty retreat to the car with the lightning crashing down all around me.
Great way to start Australia Day.

26/01/13
Canon 5D MkII
20mm
F/22
ISO 50
5 second exposure

131155

Cheers

Greg

[RB]

Greg how awesome is that !!!
Great capture.

:)

[Larryp]

Spectacular, Greg!

[RickS]

Fantastic shot!

[h0ughy]

OMG - WOW that is a fantastic shot - exceptional, extraordinary and beautiful.

[alan meehan]

That is just beautiful Greg well done
AL

[Sarge]

That's certainly one of those WOW shots. :eyepop:

Well done Greg :thumbsup:

Clear skies

Rod
:D:D

[Octane]

That is so very freakin' awesome, Greg. Well done!

I'm interstate and missed the action. Spewin'!

H

[astronobob]

That is One Cracker of a Lightning Capture, frame and compo also works magnificently ! ! !
Me Envious , ,

[Enrique]

What a spectacular shot!!!!

Enrique

[DavidTrap]

Very impressive. Glad you lived to tell the tale!

DT

[Derek Klepp]

Top shot

[iceman]

Beauty Greg, definitely your best!

[multiweb]

Terrific picture. Great composition and colors.

[LewisM]

Perfect.

[lacad01]

Ditto to what everyone else has said, quite a remarkable shot, well done :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Love it. I am very partial to a nice lightning photo and they don't get better than this.

Greg.

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much for the great feedback everyone :D Still can't quite believe that I managed to capture this shot. I'm normally a very quiet and reserved person, but when the lightning hit and once the image appeared on the back of the camera I was whooping and hollering like that Turtle guy on TV. I think I will have to consider retiring from storm chasing. I don't think it will get any better than this shot for me.

[spearo]

Wow
very impressive shot
frank

[ourkind]

Stunning! Wish I was there!

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Carlos and Frank :D

[danielsun]

Wow, that is a stunning and spectacular shot!! :eyepop: Well worth hanging around for.

Cheers Daniel.

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Daniel :D

[colinmlegg]

Yep, that's a retirement shot alright :) Couldn't ask for anything more!

[Osirisra]

That is a all round absolute cracker of a shot (no pun intended :) ) one for the wall for sure!

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Ken and Colin. :D

[Paul Haese]

Superb imagery Greg. A very nice reward for going out early and risking electrification. Better than any lightning shot I have ever obtained.

[strongmanmike]

Awesome Greg, just awesome :eyepop:

Mike

[astro_south]

Spectacular shot Greg :thumbsup:

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Paul, Mike and Andrew :D



Much better than all my previous captures too Paul. Just got VERY lucky.

[gary]

Absolutely awesome shot Greg!

Appreciate you wanting to protect your image, but the only pity for me is that
I find the watermark so distracting. My eye keeps getting drawn to it. :)

[trek1701]

Awesome shot! :eyepop:



Talk about being in the right place at the right time.


Well Done. Mark

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Mark and Gary :D



Sadly it is a necessary evil these days Gary. As much as I would like to upload my images unblemished, I know of far too many instances of work getting stolen. I usually have my watermark a lot more transparent than how it is in this, but that is usually on my night sky scape work where the pictures are a lot darker. I had to up the look of it in this instance as it was getting lost in the crop too much.

[rcheshire]

What an opportunity. Fascinating shot.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

What a fabulous image Greg!

Did you have to wait long for the lightning to drop into that wonderful frame?

Cheers,

Justin.

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Rowland and Justin :D



Just went back and checked all the images Justin. This was frame number 43 of 88 with this composition and settings (5 second exposures), so what's that, about 4 minutes?. Of those 88 frames I had lightning in another 10 frames, but this was certainly the standout. Very active storm.

[StephenM]

Absolutely stunning image Greg! One of the best I've seen for a long time!

Cheers,
Stephen

[andyc]

The lightning got even closer?! One of the bolts appears to hit just the other side of the field! Think I would not have had the bottle to keep photographing with the storm as near as it was, but what a reward you got! Fantastic shot :thumbsup:

[azagil]

that is a truley breathtaking shot!! Hang up your camera, you dont get better than that!!!

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Stephen, Andy and Aaron :D


Yeah I think you might be right mate. :D Time to think about retiring from storm chasing.....